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+AJ Perkins Click on his website link .. I believe he has them listed there

Obituaries are a good source for that info. They don't always say but often they do. If you have a death record then start looking in that town/city/county. Obituaries can often be found in public library newspaper archives on microfilm, yes sadly most are still only available on microfilm. Often only a single library in the world will have the microfilm record of the obituary of your ancestor and they can't afford to put it on line so you may have to travel to them though you can always call their reference desk and sometimes, especially in a small town, they may be willing to look it up for you and possibly even mail you a copy or email you a scan. The bigger the town/city the less likely they will do that for you. Also, contact the town hall/city hall and find out who is in charge of cemeteries. Often the cemetery superintendent will have records of where everyone in the town is buried. You may have to call around to several towns to find this out. Sometimes you have to just go to the town physically and walk up and down the rows of every grave of every cemetery until you find it and sometimes you will find out they were cremated and the ashes are scattered over the Mediterranean and sometimes you find out they were buried at sea. I have found all of the above in my ancestry. Once I even found an ancestor that was buried in a mass grave of small pox victims and the entire cemetery was over grown so you could not physically enter it. The town had been so terrified of small pox that once all the victims were buried nobody ever entered the crematory again. There is a plaque at the wall that lists the names. They all died the same month and year and there are no head stones. Many graves never had a head stone and may only have had a wood marker at one time that eventually rotted away. My grandmother's sister is buried in an unmarked grave because her only child lived thousands of miles away and never visited the grave. Eventually the plastic marker disintegrated. I have no idea where she and my uncle are buried now. The last time I was there was at the funeral in 1969. A large number of graves are like that. Oh I forgot to mention that obituaries will usually list the funeral home and guess what? Many funeral homes will keep a record of where they bury people. If your relative passed away within the last 20-30 years that might be a good way to find them and even if it is earlier, if the funeral home is still in business they may again still have the record. I found a record of my great great grandfather's brother that way. They are still in business and have been since 1872 and So when I saw the obit in a 1936 newspaper that mentioned the "undertaker" I looked it up and discovered they changed their name once but are still in business. I called them up thinking it was a long shot and was surprised to find that after she spent ten minutes looking in a file cabinet in the basement they found the record and she was kind enough to send me a copy in the mail. I got the cemetery and plot number that way. It also showed the bill for the funeral with an itemized list of expenses and who paid for it and a partial list of guests at the wake. but you won't usually get such great detail from so long ago but occasionally you might.

A state is NOT excluded. They INCLUDE themselves by applying for and receiving an annual grant for digitization from NEH. The South is well represented. This is an old video. All the states but one have newspapers on the CA site.