Death records were not federally mandated until 1907. That means there is perhaps 300 years of trying to learn about your ancestors’ deaths with no record. But, don’t despair, there are other records- particularly wills, newspapers and cemetery records that can help you learn about the death of your ancestors. Today we discuss cemetery records and two very useful, easy-to-use, and FREE websites where volunteers post information and/or pictures from cemeteries. Cemetery records tend to be the better option when seeking death information because the records are more accessible, sometimes there is no will, and newspapers are not often indexed so you could spend a great deal of time looking for information that isn’t even there.
Visit Find A Grave and Internment to see if someone has included your ancestors. You can even contribute pictures or information that you have gathered from cemeteries. These are not the only cemetery records online, but they have so many records that if no one has contributed information about your ancestor on one site, odds are good that they can be found on the other site.
Click to check out Internment.net
Click to check out Find A Grave
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