Where do you list the place of Death on the Family Trees?

Any program worth of the name will have three facts you can fill out; death place and date, residence place and date (the date is usually a range, in the good ones), and burial date and place.

So, if someone lived in Florida the last five years of their life; died in Alaska at age 80, under the influence of Jack Daniels, while trying to win a bet about hunting polar bears with a pocket knife; and the parts they could find were shipped home to Vermont, to lie in a little graveyard behind a slate-roofed white clapboard Unitarian church with 8 generations of his ancestors, you would fill out all three facts:

Residence, 2003 - 2007, Palm Beach, Florida

Death, 01 Aug 2007, Barrow, Alaska

Burial, 01 Sep 2007, Montpelier, Vermont

I must have known a dozen guys like that.

I have one fellow whose ashes were scattered on Monterey Bay, which was as close to Pebble Beach as they would let his relatives go. I listed that as his burial place, and put a note explaining it in the general notes field.

The place of death for a deceased person is the town, city and location of the actual death, where he or she died. The place of burial may be where the ashes are scattered or the remains are buried.

You're trying to complicate the issue. If a person is traveling from Little Rock, Arkansas, but dies in Casper, Wyoming, then the place of death is Casper, Wyoming. If the body was cremated and the ashes were scattered somewhere on a hill in the approximate location of Dearborn, Michigan, then the burial place is Dearborn, Michigan.

Visitors to a burial site in a cemetery is one thing; visiting a hill, a valley, or even a pond where ashes were scattered is a visit at its location.

In Genealogy, the task is to ensure accuracy, so the death location is where the death actually occurred. This may in many cases be a hospital. Your database should have in its notes section space to record relevant data on the disposition of the body, whether burial or cremation. A burial may even be in another country entirely, from the place of death, so record full details.

If I remember correctly, it is "place of DEATH", meaning where ever they died.

One of my ancestors was a circuit preacher; he preached in this, that and the next town/state. He died while traveling on a train. My paternal grandmother died while visiting her brother. So, yes, place of death is where they died, not where the memorial is, death certificate, or anything else.

Besides, in the U.S. of A., death certificates come from the State capitols.

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The place of death is where they actually died. Final internment could be a completely different place.