Cemetery Record Search

There are times when death records are lost, destroyed, or just do not give information needed or required. Death Records give the name of the deceased, and then the cause and a city of death. Sometimes not enough information is available at the time of death to fill in the rest of the certificate (ie. occupation, city/country of birth, etc). At times a Cemetery Record enlightens these areas.

The certificate of death may be revisited later and revised through a county department of vital records. At the time, the next of kin or spouse may not have been contacted and the “informant” was someone unrelated to the deceased and could not furnish certain information. After things settled down, the family of the deceased could answer these questions as part of the cemetery’s records. Hence, if not revisited and additions made, the cemetery record could have information the certified death record does not.

Aside from this fact, a cemetery record search serves man other uses as well. They can be used to assist in genealogical and/or historical research, to find what was inscribed on a person’s headstone, and locate the burial location of deceased family members or friends.

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