Of the various types of vital records to search when beginning a family tree, those relating to the death of a family member provide some of the most prolific and accurate information available. In...
Generally, major, national, and most large-city newspapers only publish obituaries for the famous, the prominent, or people considered significant. Local newspapers usually publish, often in long-form, an obituary for any local resident upon their death....
One of the most helpful documents readily available to the amateur genealogical researcher, and often an underappreciated source of information in constructing a family tree, is the obituary. Basically a posthumous news article, obituaries...
