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Arizona Obituary Search

Arizona Obituary Search

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The Mesa AZ FamilySearch Library has been indexing a variety of newspaper obituaries for Arizona and provides a database to be searched from their website. The search enables you to search by name for an obituary and allows last name only searches or last name with given. For the most part, these obituaries seem to be from mid 1980’s through the present date. I did find, while searching for Partridge, an index to an 1899 obituary for a William Partridge, but the paper is not given, making it more of a death record then that of an obituary. Once users …

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John Sullivan marker

Stanley I. Reynolds Collection

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The Stanley I. Reynolds collection contains research data compiled by Reynolds while researching for various potential D.A.R. members, including birth, death and marriage records for Seneca and Ontario Counties, New York. Included are a record of wills, powers of attorney, guardianship and family records, census and military records, as well letters to Reynolds requesting genealogical information. The research from volumes 19-29 is likely excerpts and index from the same records now published digitally online by Family Search and known as the New York, Probate Records, 1629-1971. Microfilm of original manuscripts and typescripts, extracts of Seneca County families from court records, wills, …

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San Joaquin Obituary Index Card

San Joaquin County California Obituaries, 1850-1991

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Ancestry has published a “new” database to their collection: California, San Joaquin, County Public Library Obituary Index, covering the years 1850-1991. The images for this “new” database have been hosted at FamilySearch for some time, and can be freely found there for individuals without an Ancestry membership. There is no difference in the data at either website, and the images at Ancestry are actually hosted by FamilySearch. While the original images at FamilySearch are completely indexed there, the Ancestry database provides relevant “leafing” for users of FTM and Ancestry’s Online Family Trees. This collection consists of images of index cards …

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Sample Image from South Africa Free State Dutch Reformed Church Records

South Africa, Free State Dutch Reformed Church Records, 1848-1956

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Ancestry has published a “new” database to their collection: Free State Dutch Reformed Church Records for South Africa, covering the years 1848-1956. The images for this “new” database have been hosted at FamilySearch for some time, and can be freely found there for individuals without an Ancestry membership. There is no difference in the data at either website, and the images at Ancestry are actually hosted by FamilySearch. While the original images at FamilySearch are completely indexed there, the Ancestry database provides relevant “leafing” for users of FTM and Ancestry’s Online Family Trees. The data included in this collection varies …

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