Resources
Death & obituary search resources
Practical, sourced guides on how to check whether someone has died, how someone died, what is free to search, and how careful public-source monitoring works.
Guides & references
How to find out if and how someone died, search obituaries, and understand records.
Guide
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.
Guide
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.
Guide
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.
Guide
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.
Guide
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.
Reference
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.
Product Guide
Death Notification Service
What a death notification service can and cannot do, how monitoring works, and what evidence to expect before acting.
Product Guide
Obituary Monitoring Service
How obituary monitoring works, when it is useful, and why source coverage and false-positive review matter.
Use Case
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.
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Privacy Policy
How IfTheyDie handles account data, watchlist information, monitoring records, and deletion requests.
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Terms of Service
The terms for using IfTheyDie, including acceptable use, monitoring limits, and service disclaimers.
Contact
Contact IfTheyDie
Contact IfTheyDie for product questions, corrections, removal requests, support, or business inquiries.
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Data Sources
The kinds of obituary, memorial, public-record, and external search sources IfTheyDie uses or evaluates.
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Coverage and Limitations
What IfTheyDie can monitor today, where coverage can miss deaths, and how to interpret confidence scores.
Company
About IfTheyDie
IfTheyDie helps people monitor names over time and review likely public death matches with source evidence.