Rules
Canadian coroner inquests: which provinces publish inquest records
Which provincial coroner and medical examiner offices in Canada publish inquest verdicts and recommendations online, and how to request the records that are not posted.
Contributor
Lucas B. Brooks
Lucas B. Brooks is the editorial byline assigned to this area. Subject: Celebrity Deaths and Memorials: memorial, obituary, archive. Background, definitions and the interpretation of available information belong to this editorial remit. Readers should be able to see where a conclusion depends on an assumption. This is an editorial pen name used by the publication, not a claim of an independently verified personal identity.
Maintenance
Why do anniversaries and archives entries often leave the cause blank?
Anniversaries and archives: the blank cause line in an old record, why researchers keep trying to fill it, and what a responsible transcription does instead.
Features
Athletes Who Died Causes: How to Check Reports
Athletes who died causes: learn how to check a reported cause by its jurisdiction, source document, confirmation date, and the limits of its evidence.
Costs
Career memorials: concerts, places, and charitable tributes
Career memorials preserve a celebrity's work through concerts, public places, and charitable tributes. Explore named examples and what each honors.
Features
Anniversaries and archives: how old death notices resurface
Anniversaries and archives: how date-based features, reminders, round-number anniversaries, and search push old celebrity death notices back into view.
Rules
What an in memoriam notice is, and how it differs from a death notice and an obituary
What an in memoriam notice is, how it differs from a death notice and a news obituary, what families put in one, and why researchers use them.
Reviews
What a career memorial timeline records, and where it stops
Career memorials timeline: the four kinds of date a chronology confuses, where entries come from, and the parts of a working life records never hold.
Rules
Celebrity deaths: checking dates for Bowie and Prince
Celebrity deaths may be announced or documented later. Use Bowie and Prince to distinguish death dates from announcement, report, and service dates.
Rules
Citing celebrity death records from archive pages
Citing celebrity death records from archive pages: identify the dated source, note publication and revision dates, and keep a log of changes.
Maintenance
Musicians Who Died This Week: Four Names Reported September 8–14, 2026
Musicians who died this week: four deaths reported between September 8 and 14, 2026, each with who reported it, what is known about the cause, and the five fields a record should hold.
Features
Actors who died corrections: writing a request editors can act on
Actors who died corrections: the three kinds of request, the six things a written request should hold, a sample, and what to expect back from editors.
Costs
Fake Appeals in “Actors Who Died This Week” Searches
Searches for actors who died this week can surface fake memorial appeals. Learn how to verify recipients, report impersonation, and act if you gave.
Features
CDC death data Atlanta Seattle memorial notices: state view
CDC death data Atlanta Seattle memorial notices: 2024 state cause rankings for Georgia and Washington, who issues local notices, and how to log each source.
Rules
What the FTC Funeral Rule means for paid death notices and news obituaries
The FTC Funeral Rule paid death notice rules cover price lists and misrepresentation, while editorial obituaries sit outside the rule entirely.
Rules
How US libel and privacy law shapes corrections on celebrity death pages
Libel privacy law celebrity death corrections shape how US archives fix errors, balancing defamation, publicity, privacy, and copyright rules.
Guides
What the National Archives holds for historical American celebrity obituaries
Federal records confirm a famous life, not a famous death. Census, military and newspaper files at NARA and the Library of Congress do the checking.
Guides
National Center for Health Statistics death records
National Center for Health Statistics death records are de-identified. Learn what NCHS data can—and cannot—confirm about a celebrity death report.
Costs
How to request a death certificate in Texas, Florida, and Illinois for a celebrity death
To request death certificate Texas Florida Illinois celebrity records, check who may apply, the fees, the forms, and the waiting periods in each state.
Guides
How to use the Social Security Death Index to check a reported celebrity death
The public Social Security Death Index is closed to most users, so a celebrity death check now runs through an SSA Numident request and a state record.
Rules
Celebrity Memorial Service Etiquette: What Fans Should Know
Celebrity memorial service etiquette, from bag checks and free ticket lotteries to city permits, dress codes and the records you can request afterward.
Features
Deaths by year by profession: why coverage varies
Deaths by year by profession reflect obituary selection, not mortality. Learn the four editorial tests and where US vital records come from.
Rules
Deaths by month corrections: how a closed record should be fixed, with a worked change note
Deaths by month corrections: how a closed archive record should be fixed, how to submit a request, a worked change note, which vital-records offices handle certificates, and when an entry is withdrawn.
Maintenance
Why a Memorial Archive Should Not Add a Cause-of-Death Column
Why a memorial archive for celebrity deaths should leave cause of death out of its entries, how monthly groupings mislead, and what an entry should record instead.
Maintenance
How to verify an actor's death report when a stage name hides the legal name
How a report that an actor has died is checked, why stage names defeat name matching, and which sources actually settle an identity when credit databases cannot.
Costs
Celebrity deaths and causes: Boseman, Trebek, and Bowie
Past celebrity deaths and causes: what was disclosed about cancer in the cases of Chadwick Boseman, Alex Trebek, and David Bowie, alongside their work.
Industry
Every correction issued against this week's reports, and why
Every correction issued against this week's reports, with the reason for each and the source document that settled it, all gathered in one place.
Costs
How to check a “deaths this week list” for errors
Deaths this week list: a seven-step method for checking celebrity death reports, confirming identities, spotting warning signs, and documenting corrections.
Reviews
Which sources report deaths today, and how causes are stated
News desks, coroner offices and paid death notices each report deaths today, and each states a cause differently, or omits the cause entirely.
Maintenance
Deaths Today Corrections: How to Fix a False Death Report
Deaths today corrections: how a death desk traces a same-day claim to its origin, when it holds a report, and how a false death correction is written.
Rules
5 points worth checking on deaths today this week
Deaths today this week: the states a death report passes through at a records desk, what verified means at each one, and how corrections differ from withdrawals.