| Dear Fellow Genealogist,
As genealogists, we love dead people. Or, more precisely, we love researching dead people.
Morbid? Sure. But death is famously one of the only certainties in life, and we have no shortage of records that mark our ancestors’ final days. In fact, a death record may be the only surviving record of a person.
Below, we share how to find death records and the genealogical details in them—not just official death certificates, but also cemetery records and obituaries. Thanks to massive tombstone websites and advancements in newspaper-indexing, those latter two are becoming even more accessible.
Memento mori-ing,
— Andrew, Editor of Family Tree Magazine
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