Texas Deaths and Burials - FamilySearch Historical Records

What Is in the Collection?
This collection includes death and burial records from 1903 to 1973.

This index is not complete for any particular place, region or time period. This collection may include information previously published in the International Genealogical Index or Vital Records Index collections.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
Death and Burial Records usually include the following:


 * Name of decedent
 * Initial(s) of spouse
 * Age
 * Sex
 * County of death
 * Date of death
 * Date of registration
 * State file number

How Do I Search the Collection?
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 * Name of the person
 * The location or date of the event

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What Do I Do Next?
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I Found Who I Was Looking For, What Now?

 * Copy the citation below, in case you need to find this record again later.
 * Use the age or estimated birth date to find other church and vital records such as birth, baptism, marriage, and death records. (Make sure that if it’s a marriage article, you take the word marriage out, if it’s a birth article, take the word birth out, etc.)
 * 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. Witnesses were usually family members.
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family.
 * Church Records were kept years before counties began keeping records. They are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900.

I Can’t Find Who I’m Looking For, What Now?

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