Genealogy question.....

[robin3]

Anyone know how I would go about finding a dead ancestor....all we know is the name, how he died and the year and city.

Have you applied for copy of birth/death certificate yet? If you know where and when he died you should be able to contact the local registry office.

You could register with Ancestry.co.uk and look at the BMD index (as long as the death was post 1837) or have a look at the FreeBMD site.

I'm already registered and can have a look if you want.

That would be great...can I CAT you the details?

Of course!

Probably won't be around until after school now.

depends on the time really.

Either go down the BMD route mentioned by Mercy, or if it was likely to be in the newspaper at the time you could contact the local library to see if they can point you in the right direction.

Robin is it a particular ancestor, I do family tree and have subscription for both ancestory.co.uk and BMD if you like I caould have alook, email on [email protected]

Robin, I sent you an email earlier today but it has been bounced back. I'll try again via the cat service.

Robin Im having the same prob, trying to email you coppies of the BMD but it wont go through, in answer to you question, pretty certain sons are of the father, can follow them through the records. will explain when i can email.

Probably not as good as ancestry.co.uk but you could try Genes Reunited as well.