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Funeral Homes and Family History: They're Dying to Meet You!

Dan Earl
Dec 22, 2017
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Introduction
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Biological Reality
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Funeral Homes in History
12m 18s
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Relevant Records
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Funeral Cards
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Finding Records
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Working with Funeral Directors
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Summary
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Most genealogists know to look in a cemetery to find their ancestors, but what about the funeral home? Funeral home records can provide loads of genealogically rich information. This presentation will teach participants what types of records are typically found in funeral homes, how to locate these resources online and "in the field", as well as provide real life examples of how to search for ancillary clues in funeral home records.

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Dan Earl
Daniel Earl live in Michigan. He holds a BA in Anthropology and an MS in Psychology. Dan is an educator, college administrator, and writer. He is the the vice-president of the Michigan Genealogical Council and President of the Hungarian Genealogic
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    Michiel Landers
    7 months ago

    This was a great webinar! I finally got to it because I’m needing death information for a particularly hard to find ancestor. Dan made me laugh several times, and he also gave a lot of good information. Maybe I’ll find that death information.

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