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Death-Record Web Sites
Besides death certificates, two other death-related sources provide clues about about your ancestors: obituaries and funeral home records. Use these sites to help you dig up new information about the departed:
Cyndi's List funeralCENTRAL Funeral Net Obituary Central Obituary Daily Times Obituary Lookups Online Searchable Death Indexes for the USA Get advice on using obituaries and funeral home records in the August 2002 issue of Family Tree Magazine.
www.cyndislist.com/obits.htm
www.cyndislist.com/cemetery.htm
Links to sites with obituary data, cemetery transcriptions and funeral home records.
www.funeralcentral.com
Publishes funeral notices similar to those submitted by funeral homes to newspapers. It's a free service, but the funeral home must send the notice for inclusion in the database.
www.funeralnet.com
Locate cemeteries and funeral homes, as well as search for obituaries. The database of funeral homes was compiled from The National Yellow Book of Funeral Directors.
www.obitcentral.com/obitsearch
Locates, categorizes and presents obituaries online. The Obituary Links Page is arranged by state and county, with thousands of links to online obituaries, cemetery transcriptions and death notices.
www.rootsweb.com/~obituary
Lists not only newspapers that are being indexed, but those that are in need of indexers. If the newspaper has a Web site, there will be a link to it.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~obitl
A community of researchers from all over the world willing to look up obituaries for free.
www.germanroots.com/deathrecords.html
Links to online death indexes and databases from all over the country.
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