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Finding and Using U.S. Obituaries More Effectively

Obituaries can help you reconstruct families and find missing relatives, whether you’re doing genealogy or building trees for DNA matches. Learn strategies for finding obituaries based on the era, as far back as the early 1800s, clear up to recent ones that don’t appear in newspapers. Learn to access obituaries in newspapers online and offline. Learn about major obituary portals, and consider how to evaluate their content. Learn a trick for finding citations for unidentified news clippings.

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