Southern USA Death Records Available
| Title | Cost; Format | Description |
| American Vital Records from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-1868 | Book | The Gentleman's Magazine was founded in London in 1731. For the genealogist it is an absolute treaure-house of useful data. From the beginning the magazine published notices of births, deaths, and marriages, enabling people throughout the English-speaking world to keep abreast of friends and relatives at home and abroad. About 6,000 of these notices relate to persons in North America and the West Indies, and these have been extracted for this compilation. Among the many fascinating notices are those relating to the deaths of American Loyalists in England and to marriages and deaths in America of "younger sons" of the English gentry and nobility. |
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| Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army | Book | This is a complete list of commissioned officers of the U.S. from the organization of the Army, September 29, 1789, to the year of the list's original publication in 1903, giving the officers' full names and showing their services as cadets and all services as officers or enlisted men, either in the regular or volunteer service. The heart of the work, Part II, an alphabetical listing of the officers, runs to some 60,000 entries. Each entry contains a brief paragraph on the officer giving his state or country where born, state from which originally appointed, date of induction, rank, date of discharge, promotions, medals, battles participated in, and, in about a fifth of the entries, date of death after leaving the Army. |
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| Known Military Dead During the War of 1812 | Book | The compiler surveyed the records of the National Archives, as well as many of the archives of the eighteen states in which fatalities were recorded. The end result is an authoritative list of some 3,500 known military dead of the War of 1812. The entries, which are alphabetically arranged, give the name of the deceased, his rank, the name of his company or branch of service, his date of death, and an indication as to whether the individual died in battle or as a prisoner of war. |
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| Navy Widows' Certificates | $ (7 day Free trial); database | Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War and Later Navy Veterans, 1861-1910 |
| Old Southern Bible Records | Book | This transcription of genealogical records found in 581 Southern family Bibles provides data on more than 15,000 individuals. Originally compiled in seven volumes of typescripts, the Bible records have been reassembled here and integrated into a single alphabetical sequence under the names of the principal families. Ranging all over the South, from Maryland to Mississippi, the Bibles reflect a continuity that is often absent in courthouse records and hold great promise in filling some of the lamentable gaps in the genealogy of the South. With a complete name index! |
| Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1963-1974 | $ (Free trial) database | One responsibility of U.S. consulates is to report deaths of American citizens occurring within their districts to the U.S. Department of State. This data collection contains these death reports for the years 1963-1974. Information regarding the deceased individual was compiled on form FS 192 “Report of the Death of an American Citizen.” Reports are organized by year, then alphabetically by surname. Information recorded includes: Place and date of record; Name of deceased; Occupation; Nativity (which may include birth date and place); Last known address in the U.S.; Date of death; Age; Place of death; Cause of death; Disposition of the remains; Names of friends and family members who were informed of the death, had a copy of the report sent to them, or was traveling or residing abroad with the deceased. |
| Roll of Honor: Civil War Union Soldiers | CD | Images of the pages of all 27 volumes of the Roll of Honor as well as The Unpublished Roll of Honor. These books reference the names of over 200,000 Union soldiers who were buried in national cemeteries, soldiers' lots, and garrison cemeteries. The Roll of Honor is the only official memorial to the Union dead ever published, and it remains the most comprehensive source of information on Civil War fatalities. Originally compiled by the U.S. Quartermaster's Department, it was published volume by volume as battlefield sites were surveyed, graves exhumed, and bodies identified and reburied. Information given includes the soldier's name, rank, regiment, company, date of death, and place of burial. For convenience, a name index to all 27 volumes and The Unpublished Roll of Honor is included. |
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