EMIGRANT DEATH CERT CAUTION
A word of warning that death certs can be very wrong and lead you down a cul-de-sac! If the person who has died didn’t know their date of birth, it is most unlikely that his next-of-kin did. Neither might they have been too interested in listening to stories of ‘home’ and may not have the correct location not to mind County that the deceased hailed from. Just treat with caution.o
All these searches are not alone to retrieve information which can be verified but also to jog the memory boxes – yours or more importantly older relatives abroad. You will at the very least have proper timeline of families, family names and some idea of ages which will be very important in identifying your family back in their Irish homestead.