Finding Post Mortem Records

Post Mortem Records
Ceil Wendt Jensen, CG

A survey of traditional records, resource books, and electronic databases that will help Polish American researchers find records created at the time of an ancestor’s death.

Civil Death records
Parish Death records

Death Certificate
City, state
death at sea
burial at sea
documents from shipboard death
notations on ship manifests

Post mortem photos US and PL
Funeral home records

announcement Cards – US and PL klepsydra
http://klepsydra.mikrosystem.eu/index.htm
obits, Death notices, English, Polish
America’s Obituaries & Death Notices funeral Cards
http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/obituaries.html

Visitor books traditional and online

Cemetery records
burial records
mausoleum records
movement of remains
plot maps
databases: http://internment.net/
http://findagrave.com/

Monument Makers
sketch books
record books
photos

Veterans request to receive a marker The marker application can be found on NARA NY microfilm M1916

Veteran cemetery databases

Memorial Celebrations
Wszystkich Świętych and Dzień Zaduszny http://www.rootsweb.com/~pollubel/lipowa.html
Polish Veterans http://www.pava-swap.org/

Publications

Morbus –Why and How Our Ancestors Died: A Genealogist's Dictionary of Terms Found in Vital Records with Descriptions of the Diseases As They Relate to the Health of Our, Rosemary A. Chorzempa

Study of Obituaries as a Source for Genealogical Research, Thomas E. Golembiewski

Detroit's Mount Elliott Cemetery, Cecile Wendt Jensen, ISBN: 0738540935
Detroit's Mount Olivet Cemetery, Cecile Wendt Jensen, ISBN: 0738540927
Detroit's Polonia, Cecile Wendt Jensen, ISBN: 0738539996