Question

When you don’t have a death certificate, although you see last residence is that ok to put down as place of death.

Answer 1

Yes, but mark it uncertain, and explain in the biography why you chose that location.See Help:Uncertain Locations for the official advice.

Comments

Far better to have something than nothing in the death location, so I agree with marking it uncertain but entering it. It will help people searching or matching to understand if this person is or is not likely to be their desired profile

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I disagree.

This is not uncertain information, but unknown and possibly wrong information.

As others have noted having a last known residence/date field makes much more sense. A simple residence/date field would suffice. This is a common field in desktop genealogy programs.

Another common set of fields in desktop programs is when and where a Will was signed and probated.

in lieu of adding these fields, just do an explanation in the biography.

As former colleagues of mine in software development used to say SMOP … simple matter of programming.

Answer 2

Having given some thought to this, it seems we would be better served to have a last known residence 'date' and 'place' field.

Comments

I doubt very much that this will happen.  After all, we need a christening and a burial field, and apparently that's not going to happen, either.  This page tells why:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Christening,_Baptism,_and_Burial_Fields

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We would have been better off to have the Event template which we could have used for all of those, but Chris et al consider it too complicated, so we will not be supporting it.

Perhaps someday we can convince him otherwise.

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YES!!! ... the Events Template would be great for such a piece of information as this.

What do you mean the Events Template is "too complicated"?  The Events Template page clearly states the template is still under development.

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@Tommy, see the discussion and comment from Chris here.

Answer 3

I have only used that as residence to-from known death date. Death could be on vacation or in a car etc. The only times I have used last residence is when the person died at home.

Answer 4

No. I take just as example my father. He lived in place A, had a car accident in place B and died in place C. He is buried now in place A, because here is where he lived. He never lived in place C, although he worked there for a time of his life, but not when he had the accident. In my opinion, it is far better to leave a location blank than to lead other researchers on a potentially wrong path.

Answer 5

No, I say this from personal experience. A great grandmother of mine resided in one city for a long time. When she became ill to the point she could not live on her own, she moved to a nursing home in the area. The SSDI lists her former residence as her death place and a lot of people on Ancestry.com have her dying there despite her obituary clearly stating she died at the nursing home.