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How and Why to Use Cemeteries in your Family History Research

10/24/2014

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Why Search Among the Cemetery Tombstones and Records?
  • Death records are one of the three basic necessities in genealogy research
  • Death records are often among the easiest records to find
  • Death records can help to document other possible records
  •  No death certificate? Learn what can possibly be found at the cemetery


Gravestones and Cemetery Records Can Be Excellent Genealogy Sources for the following possible information: . 

  •   Birth and death dates and location
  •   Military service of the deceased
  •   Cause of death
  •   Parents, children or spouse names
  •   Place of death and burial
  •   Clues to other ancestors
  •   Look for a possible “family plot” for more family names and information
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Other Sources for Cemetery Information:

  •   Daughters of the American Revolution Library
  •   The Works Project Administration
  •    Idaho Genealogical Society
  •    Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
  •    Find a Grave and Billion Graves  



  •  http://www.interment.net/us/index.htm   http://www.deathindexes.com/cemeteries.html

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Locating a Cemetery and/or Graves.

  • Kinds of Cemeteries  Owned by:
  •  a Church, Community, Government, Private, or for profit.
  • Locate the cemetery through obituaries, wills, death certificates, family records.
  • If you know the possible location/town, you can refer to the American Blue Book of Funeral  Directors published by the National Funeral directors Association

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