How can I find out for sure if someone is realy deceased?
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try this url  http://www.vitalrec.com/\nor the county inhabianted public records
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Try this:\n\n\nhttp://zabasearch.com/
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with my father passing away Oct. 05 - once the obituary was posted in the newspaper - I was able to get and keep a guest book for him online, but in the mean time able to look up many other obits. www.legacy.com is the easy way to locate obituary/old & new - some you may have to pay for
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You mean recently?  The archives of the local newspaper would be the place.  If it's not too small a town, they probably have an on-line edition.  If not, you'll have to go look at their archives (called "morgue" in most newspapers) and see what you can find.\n\nI suspect you are concerned that there might be a ghost.  I wouldn't worry about it.  Contrary to Hollywood hype, ghosts are seldom hostile, and even more rarely toward strangers.  The usual thing is that they have not quite grasped that they are dead, and that it is time to move on.  Sometimes it's just that there's unfinished business, or that they were taken by surprise.  Sometimes it's fear of what comes next.  If you encounter a ghost, don't panic, but just talk to him or her calmly and quietly.
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Take the property address and got the county recorder's office to do the research.  You should be able to find out there if it is in fact private property.  Just because something is open to the public doesn't make it public property.  Besides, trying to gather signatures on at a cemetery were people have come to grieve and bury their dead is rude and disrespectful.
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Try looking where they were last seen.  Talk to friends relatives etc...there are lots of sites on the net for a people locator.  Some are even free.
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Go to rootsweb.com and put in the name of the person you are wondering about. If you have the ssn you can put that in as well.
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As morbid as this seems, many grave yards and towns have listings of everyone online and where their plots are.  Most of the time you have to have a membership to a place like ancestry.com.  If you know where he's buried or the funeral home where he was, they have records and can tell you where he was sent for burial.  I found my husband's grandfather by looking up his obituary, calling the funeral home and asking where they sent him.  They were happy to tell me.
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If he was American, you can search the Social Security Death Index (link below).  Type in what you know of his name and social security number.  A list will show up of everyone with a U.S. Social Security Number matching that name that has died.  If you know his date of birth, you can scan the list to find him and it will show you the zip code, city, and county of his last residence.  That could be a good start.
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do a zapasearch!\n\nhttp://www.zabasearch.com/\n\n\nand\n\nhttp://www.anywho.com/wp.html\n\n\nyou also can check on www.classmates.com
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If you know the county they lived in and the name, approximate age you can contact the county courts system they should have a death certificate on file or you can go thru the social security office for deaths as well.  Good Luck to you.
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Contact the State she passed away in and ask for The Bureo of Vital Staistics.
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Contact the local office of the branch of service they were in.   Ask for the names of military cemeteries.   If they died in combat their families will probably want them buried in that cemetery.   Also deaths are public record, they may have a listing of obits. for servicemen.   If the person served more than 20 years and left the military with an honorable discharge, they are likely buried in a military cemetery.   If from this current conflict check with the public affairs office of the Department of Defense, they maybe able to give you some lead for your area.
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Ask her family.  If that's not feasible, look for the obituary, which may include that info. Sorry for your loss.
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There's a chance you can find them through www.Ancestry.com , You'd have to pay for it.  There is also a chance, depending on where and when they were born and died that you can obtain them through the town hall in the city where they were born.
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If you know where the person lived and died you can find the information by contacting the probate or family court in that county.  They would have all this information on file there.  If you don't know what city, but you knew what state, there might be a general registy in that state.  Call a probate office and they would be able to tell you more information, then.
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go to zabasearch.com and look