graveyards and genealogy
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GRAVEYARDS AND GENEALOGY
….and some other things you may not know that you can find online
Day of the Dead
Celebration and Commemoration
Elvis Presley
What do we have online?
Death Certificates (vital records) Social Security Death Index Tombstones Burial records Church records Obituaries and death notices FamilySearch.org Wills
Babe Ruth
Searching for Gravesites
Internment.net Findagrave.com US Genweb Tombstone Project africanamericancemeteries.com
Search for specific cemeteries, people, projects
Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
National Cemetery Administration
US Veterans Gravesite Locatorgravelocator.cem.va.gov
Search for burial locations of veterans and their family members in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries, various other military and Department of Interior cemeteries, and for veterans buried in private cemeteries when the grave is marked with a government grave marker.
Jane Austen
The CDC recommends:
Most, but not all, foreign countries record births and deaths.
Persons who need a copy of a foreign birth or death record should contact the Embassy or the nearest Consulate in the U.S. of the country in which the death occurred.
General rule of thumb. Vital registration began in many countries around 1900 give or take a few decades.
Charles Lindbergh
Obituaries – Part 1
Legacy.com Founded in 1998, Legacy.com is an innovative online media company that collaborates with more than 800 newspapers in North America, Europe and Australia to provide ways for readers to express condolences and share remembrances of loved ones.
Legacy.com is visited by more than 14 million users each month. It partners with 124 of the 150 largest newspapers in the U.S.
…but it costs money sometimes.
Cheops (Khufu)
William Randolph Hearst
Andrew Carnegie
Obituaries – Part 2
LSC-CyFair Branch Library Databases New York Times Historical Access Archive Newspaper
Limitations to any obituary search Poor indexing Finding the newspaper Lack of an obituary Cost
Ancestry.com
Church records Obituaries State death indexes Some international death information for
Europe, Canada and Australia
Most databases are very focused on a small region and time period. In other words, you need a bit of luck.
Frank Sinatra
How Can I Celebrate and Commemorate
Virtual Flowers Guest books “Read” a cemetery, provide a
transcription Add photos and history
Genealogy is a very labor intensive, very personal, very human endeavor