Dear List Date of the following incident was 1927 - Cardiganshire Can anyone direct me to a reliable source for medical/forensic history?  Have recently have been led to a death where the family story is that ggrandfather was shot by drunken shooting guest of the local mansion and died a week later. However, death certificate gives the cause of death as kidney stones and renal colic, but curiously also states "no post-mortem". The deceased was aged 42, and it wasn't a doctor from the local town who certified the death, but another from a town a few more miles further away.  Newspaper reports say the man (gamekeeper) died a painful death. Unless very unlucky most people have two working kidneys, and it is most unusual for death to be from kidney stones (and yes I am also aware that this condition is one of the most painful things to have to endure) - also the man was reasonably young. So lack of pm seems odd.  Could the powerful people in the mansion cover up such an event. The family also tell me that the mansion owners were very very generous to them after the death. The other possibility (and have a case of this in my family) the family invented a tall story to cover the unpleasant physical details of this death.  In my family I was told my grandfather died in a mining accident - but the death cert states he died of throat cancer. Any ideas, or any names of any useful reference books would be appreciated. Jen