Graveyards and genealogy

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

Buddy Holly Crash Site

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

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Genealogy is a very labor intensive, very personal, very human endeavor