Links to the Past

With a long tradition both in the United States and Europe dating back to the 1800’s, funeral cards (also sometimes called mass, mourning or remembrance cards) are an excellent source of information for genealogists. While not a traditional “vital record”, they often provide great clues like death and birth dates, name of the cemetery where the deceased was interred, name of the funeral home, and sometimes even a photo of the ancestor.

This site has a collection of over 9,700 Funeral Cards in their database.

http://www.genealogytoday.com/guide/funeral_cards.html

Enjoy!

Here is a link to the old what’s new section of the site.

http://linkstothepast.com/waukesha/whatsold.html

Welcome to the my new blog. I am going to use this method for updating everyone on what is new on the sites. This will be a lot easier system for me to work with. I hope you like it!