The following article was written by my good friend, Bill
Dollarhide: Here are ten places to look for a death record. All
ten sources should be obtained for every ancestor on your
pedigree chart, and every member of a family on your family
group sheet. 1. Death Certificate. A rule in genealogy is to
treat the brothers and sisters of your ancestors as equals. That
means you need to obtain genealogical sources for all of them.
For instance, for every ancestor on your pedigree chart, and for
every brother or sister of an ancestor, you need to obtain a
death certificate (assuming they are dead). If there were six
siblings in an ancestor’s family, a death certificate for each
brother and sister will give six different sources about the
same parents; places where the family lived; names of spouses;
names of cemeteries; names of funeral directors; and other facts
about a family. If a death certificate for your ancestor fails
to provide the name of the deceased’s mother, a sibling’s death
certificate may give the ful