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Photo: Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island. Credit: Matt H. Wade; Wikimedia Commons.

Genealogy Tips: Finding an Ancestor’s Burial Using Interment.net

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on September 23, 2024

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about a free, worldwide online cemetery database to help you find your ancestor’s burial place... (Read More)

Photo: offices of the Butterworth & Sons mortuary in Seattle, Washington, 1900. Credit: Alfred D. Bowen; Wikimedia Commons.

Genealogy Tips: Your Ancestor’s Local Funeral Home

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on January 24, 2024

Gena Philibert-Ortega gives tips for researching funeral homes in your ancestor’s hometown that might provide helpful family history records... (Read More)

Photo: Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island. Credit: Matt H. Wade.; Wikimedia Commons.

Genealogy Tip: Death Certificates

By Katie Rebecca Garner on November 14, 2022

In this article, Katie Rebecca Garner gives tips for finding and using an important resource for genealogy: death certificates... (Read More)

Illustration: a logo made from the word “genealogy”

Genealogy Tip: Availability of Birth and Death Certificates by State

By Jessica Edwards on May 20, 2021

Jessica Edwards gives tips for finding civil records in your genealogy research, and provides a list of when each state began recording such records... (Read More)

Photo: cover of the family Bible of Amos and Olive Clark.

Genealogy Challenge: Records Do Not Always Agree

By Thomas Jay Kemp on October 2, 2019

In this article, Thomas Jay Kemp finds a death date written in a family Bible that differs from other records, and discusses what to do... (Read More)

Photo: Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island. Credit: Matt H. Wade.; Wikimedia Commons.

It’s Not All Online: Cemetery Research

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on August 16, 2019

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega gives tips for doing cemetery research when you can’t find information about your ancestor’s burial online... (Read More)

Painting: "Washington Crossing the Delaware," by Emanuel Leutze. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Wikimedia Commons.

Genealogy Tip: Revolutionary War Burial Records

By Thomas Jay Kemp on May 7, 2019

An article about the Revolutionary War Burial Records found in GenealogyBank’s Historical Documents & Records collection... (Read More)

Photo: a classroom at the De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. Credit: Malate269; Wikimedia Commons.

Genealogy 101: Anatomy of a Death Certificate

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on September 18, 2018

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega explains how to analyze a death certificate to get the most out of these important genealogy records... (Read More)

Photo: a classroom at the De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. Credit: Malate269; Wikimedia Commons.

Genealogy 101: #6 Alternatives to Death Certificates

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on December 5, 2016

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega discusses alternatives to death certificates in order to find information about your ancestor’s death... (Read More)

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