Comments on: 14 sources of death information

By: dan

dan — Mon, 14 May 2012 00:32:22 +0000

Great checklist, this is a great guide for tracing my great grandfathers roots. I wasn’t quite sure where to start but I guess I’ll start working my way through the list. One of these has to lead somewhere ( I hope)

By: Judy Webster

Judy Webster — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:48:49 +0000

I assume that Prue is referring to an asylum in NSW – but in case the patient also spent time in Queensland, I thought I would mention that in Queensland we have a few different series of records about mental asylum patients, and some are open to the public.

By: Carole Riley

Carole Riley — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:01:49 +0000

Prue, you can ring or email the Health Department and they will send you a form to fill in. If your request is approved they will send you a letter to take with you to the archives.

By: Prue

Prue — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:49:39 +0000

I have a relative who died in an asylum but unfortunately the records will not be available for many years. Have you ever tried accessing closed information from the Department of Health? It’s one of those things I’ve got to get around to looking into…

By: Jane Harding

Jane Harding — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:58:51 +0000

Adding on to Judy’s comments, I’ve also obtained several wills and death certificates from the Titles Office where they had been lodged to effect a transmission of real estate by death. These were in situations where there was no will, probate or intestacy in the State Archives files and ordering the death certificate was tricky as it was within the 30 years and I was not next of kin. There was a fee involved but from memory, it was less than the cost of a certificate from Qld BDM. This naturally relies on you knowing the address of property owned by the individual being researched.