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Documenting a Death in the U.S.
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The new and free Pilot FamilySearch now has tens of millions of images and indexes for U.S. deaths. An array of related documents will also pinpoint a death.
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Outline for documenting a death in the U.S.
Introduction:
We will focus on the contents of burial transits, tombstones, sexton files, execution warrants, physician returns, stillbirths, undertaker's reports, funeral home registers, inquest cases, newspapers, stillbirth records, and especially the related civil death documents. We will learn how to locate and use original documents and major indexes for the United States. The new and free Pilot FamilySearch now has tens of millions of images and indexes for U.S. deaths.
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Typhoid Fever Victims
Started by Spivey. Last reply by Unknown Ancestor Oct 16, 2009. 13 Replies 0 Likes
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Comment by Unknown Ancestor on September 14, 2009 at 8:47pm
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Another key is keeping track of additions to the FS Record Search Pilot.
It is growing quickly from worldwide indexing and digitization projects. If they were shiny new books on a library shelf each week, all of the genealogy newsletters and magazines would be raving about it!
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Comment by Spivey on September 14, 2009 at 8:24pm
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I can hardly keep away from the site you recommended: http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=home
Thank you ever so much. Although it is beta, I have been able to locate information on two ancestors so far.
I discovered that Russell Felder's wife [Jalura Glover] pre-deceased him, having died in 1916, perhaps also a victim of the plague. I was pleasantly surprised to find her father's name as part of the documentation on the site. Gotta run, I hear the site calling out to me! LOL. Thanks a semi-trailer load.
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