Historic death index
Access Canberra maintains an historic death index that provides limited information relating to deaths that were registered in the ACT more than 30 years ago.
The index contains the: registration number; deceased’s surname and given names; date of death deceased’s father’s surname and given names; and, deceased’s mother’s surname and given names.
Querying over HTTP
Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on
this data to power Web applications. For example:
curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
SELECT *
FROM \"data-act-gov-au/historic-death-index-sepa-djsm\".\"historic_death_index\"
LIMIT 100
"}
EOF
See the Splitgraph documentation
for more information.