causes of death

[lillias luke]

i have been getting help tracing some of my ancestors in the brick wall section
http://www.british-genealogy.com/for...cing-ancestors

is there any easy way to find out causes of death because i am trying to trace the route of the breast cancer gene through my family

[Mutley]

As far as I know, only by buying a death certificate.
Sometimes there will be a cause of death entered in a burial register but you need a copy of the register to see that and very few are on line.

If it is Scotland you can find some links by googling for 'scotland burial records online'.

[benny1982]

Hi Lillias Luke.

Obviously you can only go back to 1837 with death certs, 1 July 1837. Also if they died in a hospital or something the cause may be stated as well. And a lot of early death certs gave just "cancer" or something but that is better than nothing in researching for medical purposes.

Ben