Obituaries in Hagerstown, MD | The Herald-Mail (2024)

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How do I find a local obituary? ›

Many funeral homes publish obituaries on their websites. These can usually be located with a Google search on the person's name. Local genealogical and historical societies, public libraries, and some newspaper publishers maintain clipping files of obituaries.

ObitMichigan.com is dedicated to delivering immediate, up-to-date information on obituaries 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to families and friends in Mid-Michigan.

Find an Obituary. The Cremation Society of Virginia® online obituary search tool gives you access to obituaries from thousands of locations across North America. You can search by first or last name, state and publication date.

Read The Paper or Watch The Local News

If you receive a physical newspaper, review the obituaries section to see who recently passed. Searching for someone who died more than 30 days ago? Turn to sites like Google News Archives, US News Archives, or International News Archives.

MyObits: Obituary Listings on the App Store.

Copies of exisiting death records are available from the Maryland State Archives. The archives will search for one name in one index, and provide one document for their fee. Some records may also be available at your local FamilySearch Center. Use the FamilySearch Catalog to see what is available.

In Maryland, death records are restricted for ten years from the time of death, so we currently can release deaths over ten years the current date. For information on finding information on deaths prior to these dates, please see our Tips for Hard to Find Death Records page.

The Maryland General Assembly passed an Act in 1865 to make the registration of deaths a civil matter in the county circuit court. A number of death registers were begun by the court clerks, but compliance with the law was poor and few records still exist.

Death certificates are a matter of public record.

How do I find the maiden name in an obituary? ›

When writing an obituary for a woman who had a maiden name, simply write her first name and then in parentheses write her maiden name and then her married last name. For instance, Laura (Ingalls) Wilder, Marie (Sklodowska) Curie or Julia (McWilliams) Childs.

Placing an obituary in the Ann Arbor News starts at $220.00.

In Virginia, death, marriage and divorce data become “public” information 25 years after the event; birth data are “public” after 100 years. Virginia birth and death records from 1912 to the present, divorce records since 1918 and marriage records since 1936 are now available in an index form on Ancestry.com.

Death certificate without cause of death (public record) Death certificate with cause of death (confidential for 50 years - VALID PHOTO IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED).

Two state-level California Death Indexes can be found at Ancestry.com (a database anyone can access from any library branch and Central Library) or FamilySearch.org (a free internet database). California, Death Index, 1905-1939 provides the digitized index page, plus its transcription.

Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. The site attracts more than 30 million unique visitors per month and is among the top 40 trafficked websites in the world. Legacy Inc. Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Recent obituaries from the current year can be viewed, many without images, at the Wisconsin State Journal web site. Obituaries before the current year can be obtained by browsing the newspaper microfilm or can be requested (with a two-week date range) by phone, mail, or email.

A basic online search may reveal an obituary or information about a memorial service. Type the person's name and words like “death,” “obituary,” or “memorial” and any personal information you may have, such as their date of birth or names of close relatives who could be mentioned as one of their surviving kin.