Finding the correct death

[Stangat]

I'm just trying to tidy up some people in my tree, i.e. kill them off , but a few give me a problem. On Free BMD and the other BMD sites there are more than one possibility. Short of ordering all the certificates (with an extra search) could anyone suggest how I might be able to work it out?

Thank you as always

Ian

[PaulineJ]

Location and timeframe.
After that, finding one burial and asking who else shares the same plot..
Newspaper records.

Pauline

[Stangat]

Pauline

Could I just make sure I've understood you correctly?

I find the likely ones in the BMD then find the burial record for that person in the local archives. After that, would I have to talk to the archives to find an index to the grave plots or would that be held somewhere else?

Thanks

Ian

[PaulineJ]

Graveyard records may be at the archives or still at the church.

Some yards have also published online records.

Pauline

[behindthefrogs]

If your deaths are prior to 1901 then looking in the census could help.  If you find the likely candidates in one census looking for them in the next census will give you a better clue as to who died between the two census.  Don't just check for your own family.

Similarly remarriages of a remaining partner can eliminate wrong contenders.

Basically I am suggesting tracing the history of the wrong ones to include or eliminate them.

Later on checking electoral registers can help.

David

[Stangat]

Pauline and David

Thank you for the help and info.

Ian