Finding Obituaries and Death Records
Death records often hold the most family information of any document. Here is where to find certificates, obituaries and indexes, and how to read them carefully.
Cemeteries & Burials
Finding graves, reading headstones, and the sexton and funeral home records behind them.
Cemetery Research and Reading Gravestones
How to find where an ancestor is buried, what to look for on the stone and in the cemetery office, and how to photograph old markers without damaging them.
Find the records
Websites and archives for this topic are in our Resource Directory under Cemeteries & Obituaries.
Other topics
Getting Started 21Census Records 16Birth, Marriage & Death Records 15Church Records 12Cemeteries & Burials 2Newspapers & Obituaries 3Land & Property Records 7Wills, Probate & Court Records 13Tax Records 3Military Records 5Immigration & Naturalization 12DNA & Genetic Genealogy 9Libraries & Archives 8Research in the Old Country 10African American Research 2Research Methods & Evidence 31Brick Walls 11Organizing Your Research 7Online Sites & Family Trees 11