NEW Funeral Cards & Coffin Plates on AncestorsAtRest

Update on Funeral Cards and Coffin Plates added to AncestorsAtRest

Funeral/Memorial Card William Collins Bean

Coffin Plate of Nahum Russell

Death Records for Alabama

Death Records for Alabama

Vital records registration for Death Records in Alabama began in 1908. You can order copies of Alabama Vital Records (Birth, Marriages or Deaths) by regular mail

Alabama Coffin Plates

Ann M Kimball 1811~1852 South Carolina and Alabama

Alabama Cemetery Records

Havana Methodist Church Cemetery
Stokes Cemetery Hale County, Alabama
Concord Cemetery Hale County, Alabama

Alabama Funeral Cards

Funeral Card Louis A. Bradley 1919 Ontario - 1991 Alabama
Funeral Notice John Posey Blackwell 1907 - 1909 Wolf Springs, Lawrence Co., Alabama

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Mass Grave Suggests Ancient Village Wiped Out by Massacre

The Dead Still Speak

A 7,000-year-old mass grave holding at least 26 adults and children, many of them with smashed skulls and broken legs, is likely evidence of an early Neolithic massacre, a new study finds.
Most of the cranial bones show signs of blunt-force trauma, the researchers said. A number of individuals also had broken leg bones (tibiae and fibulae), indicating they were tortured before death, or mutilated afterward, said the study's lead researcher, Christian Meyer, a bioarchaeologist who conducted the study while at the University of Mainz in Germany.

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Volunteers honoring those buried in unmarked graves at forgotten cemetery for mentally ill

Many graves go unmarked and forgotten.

For almost 80 years, no one is thought to have visited Peter Gauslin's grave.

Relatives didn't know where he was buried or how he died until his great-grandson Andrew Daft began researching family history in 2012 and learned his death occurred at a mental institution. He also discovered that Gauslin, his grandmother's father, is buried in an unmarked grave in Appleton, about 100 miles north of Milwaukee.

Gauslin is among tens of thousands who were buried in unmarked graves around the nation during the 20th century after dying at state- or county-run psychiatric hospitals, then called insane asylums or sanitariums. Families were either too poor for a headstone, couldn't be reached or had forgotten about their relatives.

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170 Million Wills online FREE Sept 2-7!

 More than 170 million pages from the largest collection of wills and probate records in the United States is now available online exclusively on Ancestry. 

With searchable records included from all 50 states spread over 337 years (1668-2005), this unprecedented collection launches a new category of records for family history research never before available online at this scale the United States.   

Until now, these records have only been available offline. Ancestry spent more than two years bringing this collection online, working with hundreds of different archives from individual state and local courts across the country and making a $10M investment to license and digitize the records. The documents cover well over 100 million people, including the deceased as well as their family, friends and others involved in the probate process. Ancestry expects to continue to grow the collection, with additional records available over the next several years.

To celebrate the launch of the new U.S. Wills and Probates collection on Ancestry,, the collection along with all U.S. birth, marriage and death records, will be available to explore for FREE, September 2 (12pm MT) through September 7 (10pm MT). 


Here are the records available as of today:

• Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1727-2008
• North Dakota and South Dakota, Wills and Probate Records, 1800-1985
• Rhode Island, Wills and Probate Records, 1582-1932
• New Mexico, Wills and Probate Records, 1801-1993
• Nevada, Wills and Probate Records, 1906-1925
• Nebraska, Wills and Probate Records, 1806-1989
• Maryland, Wills and Probate Records, 1604-1878
• Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989
• New York County, New York, Wills and Probate Records, 1658-1880 (NYSA) 
• New York, Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999
• Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999
• Alaska, Wills and Probate Records, 1883-1978
• Arizona, Wills and Probate Records, 1803-1995
• Arkansas, Wills and Probate Records, 1783-1998
• California, Wills and Probate Records, 1782-1999
• Colorado, Wills and Probate Records, 1875-1974
• Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 
• Delaware, Wills and Probate Records, 1676-1971  
• Florida, Wills and Probate Records, 1810-1974
• Georgia, Wills and Probate Records, 1742-1992  
• Hawaii, Wills and Probate Records, 1822-1962  
• Idaho, Wills and Probate Records, 1857-1989
• Illinois, Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999
• Indiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999
• Iowa, Wills and Probate Records, 1758-1997
• Kansas, Wills and Probate Records, 1803-1987
• Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989
• Louisiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1756-1984
• Maine, Wills and Probate Records, 1584-1999
• Maryland, Wills and Probate Records, 1604-1878
• Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991
• Michigan, Wills and Probate Records, 1784-1980
• Minnesota, Wills and Probate Records, 1801-1999
• Mississippi, Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982
• Missouri, Wills and Probate Records, 1766-1988
• Montana, Wills and Probate Records, 1831-1952
• Nebraska, Wills and Probate Records, 1806-1989
• Nevada, Wills and Probate Records, 1906-1925
• New Hampshire, Wills and Probate Records, 1643-1982
• New Jersey, Wills and Probate Records, 1656-1999
• New Mexico, Wills and Probate Records, 1801-1993
• North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998
• North Dakota and South Dakota, Wills and Probate Records, 1800-1985
• Oklahoma, Wills and Probate Records, 1801-2008
• Oregon, Wills and Probate Records, 1833-1963
• Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993
• Rhode Island, Wills and Probate Records, 1582-1932
• South Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980
• Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1727-2008
• Texas, Wills and Probate Records, 1800-2000
• Utah, Wills and Probate Records, 1800-1985
• Vermont, Wills and Probate Records, 1749-1999
• Washington, D.C., Wills and Probate Records, 1737-1952
• Washington, Wills and Probate Records, 1807-1997
• West Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1724-1978
• Wisconsin, Wills and Probate Records, 1800-1987

Coffin Plate Of Mary Jones 1871 - 1913

Mary Jones 1871-1913

This interesting Art Nouveau Coffin Plate for Mary Jones 1871-1913 was popular in the 1890-1920 time period. It is made from silver plated cast Pot metal—also known as monkey metal.

Mary Jones Died Jan 16, 1913 age 42 years.

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The Coffin Plates Of Jonathan Abrams And Mary Abrams

Jonathan Abrams 

Died April 28th 1918

Aged 64

Mary Matilda Abrams 

Died April 27. 1924

Aged 66 years 10 mons

This group of Coffin Plates is for a husband and wife. I am told Jonathan Abrams was from Ontario Canada.

Submitted by Brad Abrams

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The Coffin Plate Of Frank Brown 1899

Frank Brown 1881~1899

Frank Brown

Died Nov 11. 1899

AE 18Yrs 10Mos 10Dys

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The Coffin Plate Of William Burke 1898

The Coffin Plate of William Burke

This simple coffin plate is for William Burke who died at the young age of 12 in the year 1898. Its not a fancy or expensive coffin plate so I would say that Williams family were not wealthy.  

Large mudslide reported at Baltimore cemetery

In what could have been a very upsetting event, video captured Thursday a huge mudslide at Western Cemetery in Baltimore. The video shows several headstones that were dislodged. Some ended up at the bottom of the mudslide. Officials at the cemetery stated that no graves were damaged.  They said while some tombstones were dislodged, the area where the mudslide occurred was where those tombstones are stored.

To read more about the mud slide at Western Cemetery in Baltimore go Here

Coffin Plate Of Emanuel C Beam

Emanuel C Beam

This coffin plate for Emanuel C Beam is without a date but we can tell from the style of plate and the frame it is displayed in that it dates from around 1880~1890. The photo was taken in Washington NJ so I went and had a look in the 1880 USA Census and found Emanuel living in Mansfield, Warren, New Jersey.

1880 United States Federal Census

Emanuel Beam born 1868. Son of Joseph and Mary living in Mansfield, Warren, New Jersey.

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More ancient skeletons uncovered

 

Black Death

Yet another clutch of ancient skeletons has been uncovered during excavations for the Crossrail transport project in central London. It's thought that the group of skeletons dates from the time of the 'Black Death' - the plague which wiped out about a third of the British population in the middle of the 14th century.

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The Coffin Plate Of Elizabeth Scafe 1878

Elizabeth Scafe Coffin Plate

Elizabeth Scafe

DIED

June 2 1878

Aged 23 Years

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Coffin Plates

There Are One Million Buried In Mass Graves On A Forbidden New York Island.

Heart Island

Most New Yorkers don't even know it exists. But a million forgotten souls are buried in mass graves dug by convicts on a tiny, forbidden island east of the Bronx.
Since 1869, still-born babies, the homeless, the poor and the unclaimed have been stacked one upon the other, three coffins deep, on Hart Island.


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Archaeologists Discover 3,300-Year-Old Tomb in Israel

Israeli archaeologists are announcing the discovery of a tomb, which contains bronze and ceramic artifacts, and a ceramic coffin, from the Bronze Age, some 3,300 years ago.
Inside the tomb archaeologists found a small golden scarab inscribed with the name King Seti I of Egypt who is believed to be the father of Ramesses II. Many of the other items in the grave suggest that whoever was buried in the tomb was Egyptian, however there is also some Canaanite items so it is not clear who the tomb was built for.

Coffin Plate Of Mary J Hodson 1862

Mary J Hodson Died 1862

 

Mary J Hodson

Died Mar 17th 1862

Aged 26 yrs 7 mos 15 days

I went and had a look in the 1860 census and found a Mary Jane Hodson living in Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire but more research is needed to see if its the right Mary.

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The Coffin Plate of Daniel Underwood 1868

Daniel Underwood 1801 ~ 1868

Daniel Underwood

Died Sept 9th 1868

Aged 67 Yrs

5 mos 14 days

I had a look in the 1860 Census for Daniel.

1860 United States Federal Census results for Daniel Underwood.

Daniel Underwood Living in Tewksbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Born abt 1801 in New Hampshire.

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The Coffin Plate of Jacob Willsey 1819 ~ 1884

Jacob Willsey

Died June 2nd 1884

Aged 65 years

I went to Ancestry.com and had a look for Jacob. In the 1880 census I found a Jacob Willsey born 1819 living with his Wife Matilda in Berne, Albany, New York.

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Coffin Plate Of Barnard Nichols 1883

Barnard Nichols

Barnard Nichols

Died April 13 1883

Aged 71 Years

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The Coffin Plate Of Julia Morrison 1819 ~ 1890

Mrs Julia Morrison Coffin Plate

Julia Morrison

Died Oct 5th 1890

AE 71 yrs

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