How to find a death

[Brie]

Hi,

I'm looking for the death of someone who may have died in Australia, probably in the 1950s.

I know this is extremely vague. However, is there anything similar to GB's freebmd site in Australia that I could seach?

Thank-you
Brie

[cathyaus]

Hi Brie
If the death occurred in NSW you could have a search here

http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/Index/IndexingOrder.cgi/search?event=births

Other states are a bit harder I think.
Cathy

[Brie]

Thank-you Cathy,

I have just looked for him but he's not there. However, that is one state down 

Thanks again
Brie

[jorose]

The Australian Resources board has a lot of links : (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,399.0.html )
The range of years covered depends on where you're searching (e.g. Queensland's site goes up to 1964 for deaths, NSW goes up to 1979).

If you can trace them at all in Australia (immigration, electoral rolls, etc) that will make your job a lot easier.

[scrappyshaz]

There is also The Ryerson Index, which is a listing of newspaper death notices & obituaries. It covers most of NSW & some other states papers as well. Worth a look.
http://ryersonindex.net/search.php

Shaz 

[Brie]

Shaz and Jorose,

Thanks for your suggestions. I will follow both up.

Brie

[LoganH]

You could try this site to look for death notices (newspapers) - up to 1954.

http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home

Logan

[ricoba]

If in Western Australia put in mcb western australia you can do a search from there...good luck

[Brie]

Thanks Logan I will look there.

Ricoba, I'm sorry I don't quite follow. Do I have to be in WA or the person I'm looking for - and what is mcb. Sorry to be so dim 

Thank-you both
Brie