Added to FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) this week:
United States Obituaries Notices
This expansive record collection doesn't just extend across all 50 states, but also includes the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. We've added over 22 million records to this collection alone, meaning there are now over 56 million notices in total. These provide the necessary details to track down an ancestor's death and a full obituary, if one was released.
For further details visit https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/freedmens-bureau
Chris
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FYI - I was slightly disappointed to find that a potentially useful obituary turned out to be not taken from a newspaper but from the SSDI, which isn't really the same thing. No idea how many are effectively duplicates of the SSDI data available elsewhere.
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