About Deceased Online
Deceased Online is a comprehensive central database of statutory burial and cremation registers for the UK - a unique resource for family history researchers and professional genealogists.
A national repository for burials and cremations of the UK.
Deceased Online currently holds over 20 million searchable records. Our coverage page shows the areas we currently cover, and the information available for each one. We are constantly working towards adding more records to this number.
We have direct contact with local authorities and private cemeteries and crematoria around the UK and make it possible to convert their register records, maps and photographs into digital form and bring them together into a central searchable collection.
Our service to providers of the burials and cremations includes scanning the original registers, transcribing and storing them digitally. As well as preserving these fragile documents, they can be shared with the public, for a fee, on our website. This makes searching for buried or cremated individuals quick and easy.
Concentrating on burial and cremation records means we can focus on the accuracy of the data, and your searches can be more focused and more precise. If any data input errors are discovered, by you, or by us, we endeavour to fix them.
Our records date mainly from the 1850s onwards, some dating back to the 1600s, and these can provide invaluable information for researching family trees and can reveal previously unknown family links regarding other interments recorded in the same grave.
Simple searching is FREE, and free Advanced Searching is available to registered users. Advanced searches can be limited as required to country, region, county, burial authority, cemetery or crematorium, which will narrow down your search. Registering with Deceased Online will enable you to purchase vouchers online, which you can spend to access further information associated with any of the found records. Alternatively, you can purchase a monthly or annual subscription to view records.
Depending on what has been provided by the originating authority, the information on each record might include:
- burial and cremation register entries in computerised form*
- digital scans of register pages*
- grave details and other interments in a grave (key to making new family links)
- pictures of graves and memorials
- maps showing the section or exact location of graves and memorials.
Some of the burial and cremation records are more detailed than others, with occupation, address and the name of the person who purchased the grave/paid for the cremation. This information entirely depends on what the original authority decided to record. We have no control over what information they provide us with.
Where some cemeteries and crematoria do not record on paper, but in computerised form, these records will be available as a computerised register entry.
In addition to our normal burials and cremations register searching, we have a compilation of photographs of headstones, which, if available, will appear with your initial search.
More help on using the site can be found on the Getting Started page.
Our Terms & Conditions for using the site can be viewed on the Terms and Conditions page
If you are responsible for burial or cremation records and would like to see them on Deceased Online, or you have any suggestions of areas you would like to see on Deceased Online, you can contact us using our contact form.
We hope you find the site valuable and enjoy using it.
*Note: To comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), information about anyone who might still be alive (applicants for funerals, grave owners, doctors etc) is restricted. This means that details of such people stored in computerised registers for more recent funerals are not made available, and the corresponding areas of scanned register images are masked. Individual preferences of contributing authorities may mean that variations in these restrictions are in place for some of the more recent records from some authorities. In many cases, restrictions specific to a cemetery of crematorium will be explained in the entry for the establishment in the list of Contributors.
