The latest journal issue, “Documenting Death” is now available online for all NCGS Members.
Editor’s Message
If we are fortunate, we have many records documenting not just the life and the death of an ancestor, including a tombstone, death notice or obituary, probate records, and more. Unfortunately, it is more likely that we may not find any of the mentioned records, which forces us to seek out an alternative document that might provide the information we seek.
This Journal issue is all about exploring some of those alternative resources. Surprisingly, little documentation could be found, even for businesses linked to death, and which existed for decades, if not longer. The absence of these records challenges us. Leverage the various types of documents mentioned for who you are researching wherever and whenever they lived. Many documents are no longer extant, and if we don’t look, we won’t know for sure. There is the possibility that private papers may still be in the hands of family members or housed in archives with limited to no web presence; don’t let that stop you from exploring.
As always, our book review editor reviews new books you will want to investigate.
Diane L. Richard, Editor
Table of Contents
Editor’s Message.
Where, Oh Where Might You Find a Person’s Death Documented
Diane L. Richard
Dying on the County Dollar Gaston County, 1880-1913
Anne E. Gometz
William F. Askew Papers (Wake County)
Hope Blackford
Did Your Family Purchase Burial Insurance via a Burial Society or Association?
Diane L. Richard
Jackson Marble Ledger (c. 1920s)
Hope Blackford
New Hanover Death Records
Casie P. Yandle
Wake County Burial Permits
Hope Blackford
Coffin Makers (Various)
Hope Blackford
Undertaker’s Record Book (New Bern), 1923-1925
Pamelia Toms
Extract from Norfolk County Virginia Death Records 1904-1910
Sharon Rea Gable CG
R L Parks Funeral Register (Iredell County)
Hope Blackford
Mitchell Funeral Home (Wake County)
Hope Blackford
F. H. Ziegler Papers and Funeral Home Records (Elizabeth City)
Robin Oldham-Nelson & Hope Blackford
Book and Media Reviews
W. Becket Soule
Index
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