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  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    CEMETERIES

    Nov 17, 2020 3 minutes

    Even before the arrival of the web, finding records of a death back to 1837 using civil-registration indexes was relatively easy. Tracking down records of burials or cremations, on the other hand, was tricky. Graveyards, municipal cemeteries and crematoria look after their own records, there is no central registry, and what is available online varies a great deal from place to place.

    Fortunately over the past two decades the gaps have gradually

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