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Ancestry/Genealogy

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Jenoch

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10. Do you have any idea what year
Sun Aug 11, 2013, 09:39 PM
Aug 2013

your great-grandparents died? If it is after 1940 or so, they would be listed under the Social Security Death Index. I don't really know how to access that index. It appears the easiest way is to pay to become a member of a genealogy website.

We recently found two graves after many years searching. My grandmother had her first two babies die in infancy in the 1920s. There was a mention of these babies from time to time over the years, but nothing specific. We thought they were twins. We found old cemetery cards among grandma's things, but there was a name with no address. Do you know how many St. Mary's Cemetery's there are?
We checked out sever and then found the right one. The graves were unmarked but we finally located them. We are guessing we're the first family members there since the last burial in 1925. We're in the process of ordering two grave stones, one for the baby girl and one for the baby boy. They were born in and died in May/June of 1924 and 1925. I think the only thing that made my grandmother get through that experience is that she had 3 young step-children to care for. She must have thought about those babies every day. She did have a 'mental breakdown' as they used to call it, in the 1950s. She died on her 86th birthday with her youngest son (my dad) at her side.

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Cemetery records [View all] shanti Jul 2013 OP
Just on a off chance have you searched..... Little Star Jul 2013 #1
Yes I have shanti Jul 2013 #4
My Grandfather was buried without a marker when I was a kid... Little Star Jul 2013 #6
Many resources are available. GentryDixon Jul 2013 #2
If find-a-grave does not work, look into the county genealogy web site. I have been madinmaryland Jul 2013 #3
Probably King county shanti Jul 2013 #5
Some thoughts. kickysnana Jul 2013 #7
Interesting... shanti Jul 2013 #8
Probably varies by state and time frame Sherman A1 Jul 2013 #9
Do you have any idea what year Jenoch Aug 2013 #10
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