Virginia, Fluvanna County Colbert Funeral Home Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This collection includes images of Colbert Funeral Home records from 1929–1976. The funeral home, located in Bremo Bluff, served residents of Fluvanna County and surrounding counties. Funeral records are financial ledgers or papers showing the costs involved with arranging the funeral of the individual. Funerals are generally held and recorded in the locality where the person resided or is buried. The name of the deceased, death date, and death place are quite reliable. Other information provided will only be as reliable as the informant’s knowledge or memory.

This collection contains two record types: Funeral records which are images of the ledger pages, and Index which is images of the index pages for each ledger except for the date range 1973–1976. Viewing the index record type allows you to locate the name you are looking for and find an approximate page number for each funeral entered in the ledger. The page number from the ledger will give you an approximate image number which can then be located in the Funeral record.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records: • 2

How Do I Search This Collection?
Before searching this collection, it is helpful to know:
 * Name of the deceased
 * Approximate death date

How Do I Analyze the Results?
Compare each result from your search with what you know to determine if there is a match. This may require viewing multiple records or images. Keep track of your research in a research log.

I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?

 * Add any new information to your records
 * Use the information found in the record to locate the death record
 * Use the age or estimated birth date to determine an approximate birth date to find other church and vital records such as birth, baptism, and marriage records
 * Use the information found in the record to find land, probate and immigration records
 * Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in censuses
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family

I Can't Find the Person I'm Looking For, What Now?

 * If your ancestor does not have a common name, collect entries for every person who has the same surname. This list can help you find possible relatives
 * If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby town or county including nearby funeral homes
 * Try different spellings of your ancestor’s name
 * Remember that sometimes individuals went by nicknames or alternated between using first and middle names

Research Helps
The following articles will help you in your research for your family in the state of Virginia.
 * Virginia Guided Research
 * Virginia Research Tips and Strategies
 * Step-by-Step Virginia Research, 1880-Present
 * Virginia Record Finder
 * United States Funeral Home Records

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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Virginia, Fluvanna County Colbert Funeral Home records, 1929-1976
 * Fluvanna County, Registers of deaths, 1853-1896
 * V.J. Snead, edited, Fluvanna County sketchbook, 1777-1963 : facts and fancies of Fluvanna County in the Commonwealth of Virginia[Richmond, Virginia : Whittet & Shepperson, ©1963 FHL 975.547 H2f

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