Use these Internet sites to accomplish the following steps: Ancestry.com
- Use census records here to pinpoint a place of death.
- Possibly use information on One World Tree(SM) to locate possible
place of death.
USGenWeb.org
- Look on the state page and find county listings.
- Search for listings of the burials in all the cemeteries in
that county.
- Include the information about the cemetery and the directions
to the cemetery in your notes.
FamilySearch.org
- Use the Social Security Death Index to narrow state and sometimes
county of death plus an exact death date for those who died from
about 1960 to the present time.
- Use the Ancestral File to see if others have already listed
the death date.
- Use the Pedigree Resource File sources part (notice the CD#
and Pin# then go see the CD at the local Family History Center)
to see if others have already listed the death date.
- Use the IGI to see if others have already listed the death date.
Google.com
- Search for the name of the cemetery. Might lead you to a sexton
address to write a letter.
- Search for the newspapers discovered previously in a search
of the Union Catalog of Newspapers to see what newspapers were
published during the time period in question.
Other Web Sources for Finding Cemeteries (Just a few)
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