Is there a way to find out if somebody has died?  I'm not sure where they died at, and the family did not put an obituaruy in the paper where they are living...the person did not die in his hometown.
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Just like birth certificates, death certificates are required to be issue in all states and are public records. Check with your State to see how these are recorded there.
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you can give ad in news paper or visit the local municiple department which keeps record of death and births of people living in that area. hope you find her healthy and very soon.
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Well it could be that the guy was consulting one of those databases of information that is a consolidation of all known addresses, billing addresses, addresses you might have listed anytime you were asked for address info. Now if someone were looking up his (the dead guy's) current and past addresses, it will also tell them who the neighbors were. Sometimes there will not be forwarding info so it might have been that as they were following leads on people who might have known this guy from the old addresses. They were looking up names assocaited with him in any way and your name might have been the same as someone else who may have been linked in some far off manner. If they don't have all personal details for a name, like birthday, past address info or anything other than a name, the program would spit out a list of possible matches with the same name and they probably were contacting them all. I've tried helping people look for family members before and this type of thing happens. You will get lots of hits on a first and last name in a nationwide search. That's probably why he was not surprised.
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=I do not know but I suggest you find a copy of the obituary and that will answer your question.  You could also do a search as well.
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Go to rootsweb.com to find out if a persons dead!
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My mother passed on 3-17-01. My dad passed on 3-18-01. They were buried on 3-20-01. They divorced in 1959 and never saw each other again. Not a day goes by  without them in my thoughts. I think only of the good memories and although I miss them terribly, I have accepted it for what it is.  I had them for 46 years and now God has them for eternity. No one can tell you how to grieve, but time is a great healer. You`ll be fine. A Friend.
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Please accept my sincere condolences.  This must be particularly difficult, as your family is dealing with three issues:\n\n1)  The untimely death of a loved one;\n2)  That death was by a horrific manner;\n3)  There still are unanswered questions.\n\nYour question is timely, as I had a cousin who died under similarly questionable circumstances.  Answering your question has spurred me on to action.  I'll be requesting information on her death shortly.\n\nAs a family member, you have a right to contact the police department (which appears to be the Alaska State Troopers) in the area in which he died.  Now, keep in mind, they may only release information to immediate family.  You do have the right to request informaiton, though.\n\nYou might also request a copy of the report, if the case is considered closed.  If the police department releases one, it is likely to be redacted (edited, with names omitted, possibly).\n\nConsider also requesting a copy of his death certificate, and an autopsy report, if an autopsy was done:
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WELL, GO TO SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH  INDEX FIRST AND SEE IF THEIR STILL LIVING IF YOU HAVE  A NAME THAT IS.\n  WAS HE ADOPTED? ARE THE RECORDS SEALED?
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If you can find out one or the other it will help you immensely. I hope for you sake that it was in Indiana. I am from IN and and have had very good luck tracing records in almost all of the county court houses. Many of the county libraries have extensive documents from local news papers. I know how frustrating any geneology work can be I have been working off and on on mine for 20 years. Best of luck.
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All three of my childen are gone.\n\nSorry, you don't get in touch. Death doesn't have an area code or zip code.\n\nLook for some grief counciling immediately please. Very sorry for your loss.
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I wasn't able to locate J.Walter Smith with the information you provided. There are just too many of them in the data base for me to be sort through. If you know the state where he passed away, you can probably find the obit here.\nhttp://www.obitcentral.com/\nHope that helps\nD
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If you know when and where he died, you should be able to get a copy of his obituary from the paper in that town.\n\n\nYou can also get a copy of his death certificate in the county he died in.
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I have not lost a parent. I have lost a brother. We were approx. 12 months apart in age. He died drinking and driving when I was 20 and he was 19. I was devastated, but never cried about it. He and I had talked about death but not our own. There isn't a day goes by I don't think about him. I am sad, on the inside, but not depressed. I can talk about him with great pride and conviction without crying a drop. And about the loss..... is there anyway to describe the feeling of emptiness and loss? No, but we can not dwell on what we can not change. I do know that my life would be completely different if he were here. I moved 1000 miles from home, just to get away from the sadness, it didn't help. But it did change the whole direction of my life. I will not say that it is a mental illness to have feeling like this, but it is very difficult to express the way you truly feel. I try not to talk about it but feel better when I do. His birthday was last week 10/25. Mine is today.
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I'm sorry about your cousin.\n\nThe newspaper for that town, per I-search, is The Dispatch, www.the-dispatch.com.\n\nI haven't pulled up their site, but I would guess registeration isn't required.  If registeration IS required to access The Dispatch obits or stories, call your local library and have them look up the masthead, who the features editor is or the reporter who covers obituaries.  Also get the email address for the reporter if you must go the library route.\n\nThe easiest scenario to hope for is that you can access and print online.  If not, most papers charge to send a hard copy and also charge if they have to email a story to you.  Since your cousin's death is timely, perhaps someone will be kind and forward it to you gratis.\n\nAlso, if you know which funeral home handled formalities, there may still be available a memorial card from your cousin's services.  Perhaps a relative in the area could help with that.\n\nBest of luck!
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Wakin_marman answered a few of my questions as well.  He isn't right in the head.\n\nI am sure that your friend once went to a school, you should have a specialist explain the situation with the death.
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Try these.\n\nOr try the last one for comments from people who have gone.\n\nSince you are from there, do you have any family there who can help search?\n\nHope this helps, CONGRATULATIONS and good luck with the search.
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You can check to see if some people from your past that you'd like to find out of they're still alive, by checking the obituaries on the internet. There are two websites. They are www.obits.cc and www.oldobits.com.