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From: Marge Oppold <>
Subject: Fwd: [Bklyn] inquest vs. coronors report
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 08:24:33 -0800 (PST)


I received alot of notes on this asking for the
response to be sent to the list. I didn't get my
'answer', but did receive alot of information which I
thought I would share.

Apparently the difference (seems to be) an Inquest
Report is the findings due to the death - whether it
be a murder, suspicious, or even just an unattended
death. The Coroner's Report is the physicans final
report as to cause of death etc.

Found on the web:
Although coroners are often associated with murder,
their records should not be overlooked. A coroner may
have been called in to investigate deaths occurring
under the following circumstances: accident, suicide,
sudden death when in apparent good health, unattended
by a licensed physician at time of death, suspicious
or unusual causes, poisoning or adverse reaction to
drugs or alcohol, disease constituting a threat to
public health, employment related illness or injury,
during medical diagnostic or therapeutic procedures,
in any prison or penal institution or while in police
custody, dead on arrival at hospital, unclaimed
bodies, any body brought into a new medico-legal
jurisdiction without proper medical certification, or
any body to be cremated, dissected, or buried at sea.
As with most records, the contents and condition of an
individual's inquest file may vary greatly from county
to county, and even from year to year.
Many inquest files contain sworn statements made by
family and friends of the deceased and any other
witnesses present at the time of death or when a body
was discovered. A 1935 Chicago inquest, for example,
included a form requesting the full name of the
deceased along with the person's address, age, sex,
marital status, color, birthplace, length of residence
in the United States, length of residence in the city,
occupation, employer, past occupation, wages or salary
due, amount of life insurance and to whom it was
payable, value of personal and real estate property,
level of education, number of dependents, and 10
questions regarding the decedent's physical and mental
health at the time of death.
Personnel in the county coroner's office should be
able to provide information on the location of files.

There is also another GREAT explanation by Rhonda on
Genealogy.com.
http://www.genealogy.com/rhonda092100.html

All that being said - I still have not found where to
find the records. I tried searching for Coroner's
Reports, etc with no luck. Does anyone know where we
find these??

Thanks to everyone for their responses.
~~ Marge

SEARCHING: JACKSON, CAPPUS, SAGER, DANIELL, WEINMANN

--- Marge Oppold <> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:00:57 -0800 (PST)
> From: Marge Oppold <>
> To:
> Subject: [Bklyn] inquest vs. coronors report
>
> I just received a death certificate for a William
> Daniell and in cause of death reads: "on the 15th
> day
> of May 1916 I have taken charge of the body of the
> deceased found at Morris Park and that an inquest is
> pending. I have viewed the body and from
> examination
> and evidence he died on May 15th 1916 at 7AM. Chief
> cause of death was fracture at base of skull struck
> by
> LIRR train accident."
>
> My question is: is the 'inquest pending' the same
> thing as a coronors report? I believe coronors
> reports are available through the Archives. Can this
> be done by mail or does it need to be done in person
> (I haven't seen any forms for these)? What type of
> information would I learn from this report? If I
> want
> to learn about the accident would a newspaper
> article
> be better?
>
> Thanks very much!!
>
> ~~ Marge
>
> Searching for: JACKSON, CAPPUS, SAGER, DANIELL,
> MATHEWS, WEINMANN
>
>
>
>
>
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