[Genealib] Indexing local funeral home records

[Dorothy Demarest]

We have an African American funeral program collection which we've indexed.
Is this what you are interested in? We have over 1,000 programs in the
collection now, mainly centered upon the Augusta area but it also includes
programs from all over from people that have ties to the Augusta region. We
have also had trouble getting the funeral homes to let us have the programs
directly from them and have had to depend upon people donating their
programs to us. 

 

By the way, if anyone has any funeral programs just lying about we sure
would love to put them in our collection! We are mainly interested in the
information that is in the funeral program and will copy them.

 

Dottie Demarest

East Central Georgia Regional Library

demarestd at ecgrl.org

902 Greene Street

Augusta, GA 30901

706 821-2600 Fax 706 821-2629

 

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I would also be interested in knowing about Wisconsin. We were given
permission to copy some older funeral records but not to publish anything as
the funeral directors didn't know about the laws of privacy.

Donna Kjendlie, President

Green County (WI) Genealogical Society 

 

Hi everyone,

 

While reading the emails regarding indexing projects I noticed that some
people are working on indexes for their local funeral home records.  Is
there anyone in Georgia this is currently or has in the past indexed local
funeral home records?  I am very interested in starting this local project
but I can't get the funeral home directors to commit.  While the funeral
home directors think this is a worth while project they don't want to be the
first to agree to this project.  It would be much easier to get one of these
directors to commit if I could tell the them this project is already being
done somewhere else in Georgia.

 

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