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Death & obituary search resources
Find a notice, make sense of a record, or learn how to keep checking. Start with a practical guide. You do not need an account.
IfTheyDie is in early access. The waitlist is free; joining does not start monitoring or alerts. Coverage and limitations
Guides & references
How to find out if and how someone died, search obituaries, and understand records.
How to Find Out If Someone Has Died
A practical guide to checking whether someone has died, including obituaries, death certificates, cemetery records, social media, and monitoring services.
How to Find Out How Someone Died
Learn where cause-of-death information may appear, why it is often restricted, and how to verify details respectfully and legally.
How to Find Out If Someone Died for Free
Free ways to check whether someone has died, from obituary searches and cemetery records to public notices and social media.
How to Find Out If Someone Is Still Alive
A careful, privacy-aware process for checking whether someone is still alive or may have passed away.
Obituary Search by Name
How to search for an obituary by name, narrow results by location and date, and avoid confusing people with similar names.
Death Records vs. Obituaries
Understand the difference between official death records, death certificates, obituaries, cemetery records, and death indexes.
Monitoring & use cases
How death and obituary monitoring works, and when it helps.
Death Notification Service
Receiving a death alert is different from reporting a death. Compare source checks, identity review and delivery limits, plus IfTheyDie's early-access status.
Obituary Monitoring Service
Monitor a person's obituary with manual search or Google Alerts. Set up alerts, keep a useful check record, review possible matches and compare service limits.
Death Monitoring for Estates and Professionals
Use cases, limits, and workflow design for professionals who need to monitor lists of people over time.
Trust & company
How IfTheyDie handles sources, coverage, privacy, and your data.
Privacy Policy
How IfTheyDie handles waitlist and account information, public-site analytics, private watchlists, and correction or deletion requests.
Terms of Service
Terms for IfTheyDie early access, including the free waitlist, service availability, acceptable use, coverage limits and verification responsibilities.
Contact IfTheyDie
Get IfTheyDie account help, request waitlist removal or a data correction, and contact support without sharing passwords or verification links.
Data Sources
The kinds of obituary, memorial, public-record, and external search sources IfTheyDie uses or evaluates.
Coverage and Limitations
What IfTheyDie can monitor today, where coverage can miss deaths, and how to interpret confidence scores.
About IfTheyDie
IfTheyDie helps people monitor names over time and review likely public death matches with source evidence.
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