"Other" in Death Sources

A couple people have asked for some clarification about when to fill in "Other" in the Death Sources. There are two rules for using this field.

1. Your death source is not listed Death Sources section.
2. You want to provide further information about a death source that is listed.

Here are some examples of sources entered in "Other."

• Public family trees
• State death indexes (this is, by far, the most common)
• Censuses
• Newspapers
• Headstone applications
• Gravestone web sites other than Find a Grave, such as Billion graves
• Books and directories
• Burial registers
• Census mortality schedule

A few times, people have repeated in "Other" items that have their own check box, but have not provided additional information. Examples of this are Mil Info and Find a Grave. It is unnecessary to add either of these to "Other" because they both have check boxes, and additional information is not needed. In the case of Find a Grave, it doesn't matter, for our purposes, if it was the MI or IA Find a Grave. Marking the check box is sufficient.

We just want to know what sources of death information we are using.