Indiana, Ripley County, Osgood, Greendale Cemetery Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This collection contains records from the Greendale Cemetery Association in Osgood, Indiana. The collection includes burial records, cemetery plots, and lists of veterans for the years 1861-2007.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
Cemetery Records may include the following:


 * Full name of deceased
 * Date of birth
 * Date of death
 * Name of father
 * Name of mother
 * Name of mortuary
 * Burial lot number

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 * The name of the individual
 * The date of the event or the name of a spouse or parent

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I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?

 * Cite the record just in case you need to find it later. See below for help citing this collection.
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 * Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in censuses.
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family.
 * Church Records were kept years before counties began keeping records. They are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900.

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 * Indexes and transcriptions may not include all the data found in the original records. You could get a copy of the original record from the Greendale Cemetery Association, Osgood, Indiana.
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Citing This Collection
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"Indiana, Ripley County, Osgood, Greendale Cemetery Records, 1861-2007." Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : accessed 2017. Citing Greendale Cemetery Association, Osgood, Indiana.
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