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Family tree: guide to death certificates
How to use the General Register Office to find death certificates when researching your family tree and family history.
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This guide explains:
- how to find your ancestors’ death certificates
- how much it costs to order a death certificate
- what information you’ll find on a death certificate
- how to order death certificates online, by phone or by post
- information about PDF records
- information about the Online View digital image service
The guide also includes tips on what to do if you can’t find your ancestors in the General Register Office’s public index of every death recorded in England and Wales since 1837.
Updates to this page
Published 22 January 2016
Last updated 15 November 2023
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Updated to reflect the extension of years available for death records via online view.
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Guidance updated to include the online view service.
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New death certificate leaflet added.
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First published.