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

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How do I find old obituaries in MD? ›

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.

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.

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.

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.

MyObits: Obituary Listings on the App Store.

Death records are open to the public. Death Certificates are filed in the county where the death occurred, search the Death Record Index to see all death certificates on file with the Branch County Clerk.

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Vital Records (Michigan Vital Records) issues certified copies of Michigan birth certificates, Michigan death certificates, Michigan marriage certificates and Michigan divorce certificates for events that occurred within the State of Michigan.

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.

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.

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

Online obituaries and death notices

Typically, discovering if an individual has passed away is facilitated by perusing obituaries available on various online platforms. The practice of sharing obituaries and death notices on the internet has surged in popularity over the last few years.

With a name and general publication date, you can start searching obituary records like the Newspapers.com Obituary Index: 1800s to current on Ancestry now.

In 1898, the General Assembly passed a law regarding the registration of deaths in the 23 counties (Chapter 312, Acts of 1898). This law initiated the recording of deaths in the 23 counties. It did not affect the city of Baltimore, however, because Baltimore's Health Department had been registering deaths since 1875.

Requests for copies by Mail, Online or by Phone are only available from the Maryland Department of Health, Division of Vital Records in Baltimore, Md. Phone – 410-764-3038.