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"Recent" Deaths registry

  • 24-08-2018 11:49am
    #1
    Blagadan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭


    Does anyone now if there's a website where I can input someones name and get it to spit out a list of deaths with that name, where they're buried etc, going back maybe 20 years from today?

    I'm trying to find out if a school friend has passed away but have lost contact with the family & all associates.

    I know RIP.ie records only go back a 10 years so that isn't useful to me.

    I also had a look at the likes of geaniology.ie but their records are 1800's & 1900's...

    I'd rather not have to pay a fee if there's a free online utility available.

    thanks


Comments

  • #2
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,190 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    DPC required the state records online to be limited to 50+ years for deaths. So we had such a site for about 4 months in 2015 and now it's gone.

    You can usually see newer records - paper index books - in the GRO on Werburgh Street in D2. That's the only other option for state records and it does cost money.

    Irish Newspaper Archive may be useful if their family would have put a death notice in the local paper, also costs money.


  • #3
    randomrb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭randomrb


    rip.ie has the majority of deaths listed now


  • #4
    Blagadan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭Blagadan


    Thanks all.

    I discovered RIP.ie seems to go back to around 2004 for those deceased who have the same name. Despite my inputting a search area back to 1990.

    So with some luck he may be still alive. :-)


  • #5
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    randomrb wrote: »
    rip.ie has the majority of deaths listed now

    rip.ie claims that their records go back to 2006. It's not an official record, the notice has to be submitted by a funeral director and it's likely that in the early days of the website, only a small proportion of deaths were recorded there.

    All notices placed on RIP.ie are archived on the site and can be found by searching: surname, county, town or date range. The only information we have available is that which is given on the site and our records go back to July 2006.

    https://rip.ie/Help


  • #6
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    rip.ie only publishes death notices as notified by an undertaker. If your friend died and was buried abroad then there’s only a slight chance that the notice reached rip.


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