User:Rgoms/Sandbox/United States Death Records

Places to look for Death Records

 * Church records of deaths and burials
 * City and County civil registrations
 * Family Bibles and personal histories
 * FamilySearch in the Catalog Search, Records Search, and Historic Books
 * Google and other web site search sites, and don't forget to search Google Books
 * Locating United States Vital Records
 * Mortality Schedules is a census that includes people who died between June 1st through May 31st in the year prior to the federal census.
 * Newspapers often listed articles about deaths
 * Obituaries
 * Online U.S. Death Indexes &amp; Records
 * Online records sites like Ancestry, Fold3.com, WorldVitalRecords, Heritage Quest...
 * Probate Records
 * State Archives
 * Submitted genealogies posted by others UsGenWeb, Genealogy links, Gengateway, Usgennet, FamGen, Rootsweb, Genealogy.com, Kindred Konnections, Ancestry.......
 * Tombstones usually give birth and death dates

See also: Summary of Death Records in the United States by State