06-10-2009, 08:32 PM
If you are cleaning out things, it was customary for families in the past to make notes in their one and only family bible as to the dates of births and deaths. So always check in the bibles before passing them on to anyone else.
More recent families would put any pamphlets concerning ceremonies in them, whether birth, marriage, or deaths.
I'm sure other IC users may have other suggestions, as well.
Another idea, if you know the religion they practiced, sometimes there was only one church in existence there (or synagog, etc.), and if there was a cemetary that was customarily used by the members, they also used to keep some records. Again, it will come back to dates to help determine this.
More recent families would put any pamphlets concerning ceremonies in them, whether birth, marriage, or deaths.
I'm sure other IC users may have other suggestions, as well.
Another idea, if you know the religion they practiced, sometimes there was only one church in existence there (or synagog, etc.), and if there was a cemetary that was customarily used by the members, they also used to keep some records. Again, it will come back to dates to help determine this.
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