In this episode “Obituaries: Finding Facts, Clues, Leads, Sources, and Research Questions in an Obituary” I’m going to show you just how many facts, clues, sources, and leads there are in one obituary. You will be blown away at what I found in one simple obituary.
If you want to play along and try to guess at how many facts, leads, sources, and research questions there are in this obituary, you can download the obituary and the transcription for it here. How many genealogy facts and family history clues can you find?
OBITUARY LINK – Here is the link to the obituary for this episode. https://bit.ly/30KdCsR
FREE OBITUARY HANDOUT FOR EVERYONE at https://genealogytv.org/handouts/
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