Death records can help you find an ancestor’s death date and breakthrough your genealogy brick walls. Death records include death certificates, cemetery records, and more.
️Next, begin doing descendency research
There are many resources to help you find an ancestor’s death date, this video covers the three I found for my genealogy case study.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
01:38 Why start with Death Records?
02:37 Types of Death Records
04:03 Extract information from records
06:27 How to evaluate death records
10:50 Death Record Source Citations
12:56 Can gravestones help your research?
14:23 New Jersey Death Information
16:41 Find A Grave in genealogy research
18:14 Search for plot owners' information
20:43 Where to search next?
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