PreciousDust
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Say that you found a listing in a state's online death registrar indicating that someone has passed away (which also gives you that person's SSN, a piece of info that seems to be readily available for those who have passed away), would you consider it strange that:
- there are no mentions online of a funeral or memorial service, no obituaries, and no other mentions of the person being deceased, despite the deceased having an extended family?
- that the Google "autofill" suggestions after typing the person's name into the search engine comes up as "death", "funeral", "obituary"....wouldn't that indicate that others are making those searches (although there's nothing to find)?
I'm curious if sleuths would consider the above to be odd, or if they think it's normal. I understand that it's possible to purchase death certificates of others, though even there I'm not sure if you have to be a family member (I doubt it, though, as I'd guess one could also physically go to the person's place of death and be allowed to search death records there).
Any info appreciated!
- there are no mentions online of a funeral or memorial service, no obituaries, and no other mentions of the person being deceased, despite the deceased having an extended family?
- that the Google "autofill" suggestions after typing the person's name into the search engine comes up as "death", "funeral", "obituary"....wouldn't that indicate that others are making those searches (although there's nothing to find)?
I'm curious if sleuths would consider the above to be odd, or if they think it's normal. I understand that it's possible to purchase death certificates of others, though even there I'm not sure if you have to be a family member (I doubt it, though, as I'd guess one could also physically go to the person's place of death and be allowed to search death records there).
Any info appreciated!