Searching for Columbus Obituaries and Death Records

Are you looking for Columbus obituaries and death records? While this is very useful in researching a family name, you are actually limited in what you can find when you search only for basic information. Columbus obituaries, unlike death records, contain detailed information about the person's life - not just the name and date of death. In fact, Columbus, OH newspaper articles originally published Ohio obituaries. A fairly recent phenomenon is the archiving of these Columbus obituaries, first through microfilm, and then through online databases.

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Columbus OH Obituaries and Online Search

That brings us to online searching. Yes, you now have the opportunity to search for Columbus obituaries. Thousands of people die in Columbus each year, and most of these people are mentioned in local Ohio obituaries. While looking up these records on microfilm would be a chore, with online Columbus obituaries, all you need is a name, state of death, and year of death. Results are instant and can confirm the information you are searching for. However, Columbus Ohio obituaries also contain information you cannot get elsewhere, including Ohio cemetery records, which usually only have transcriptions and years.

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What Columbus Obituaries Contain

Columbus obituaries include personal information on the character of the deceased and the accomplishments to his/her name. For example, Columbus, Ohio obituaries might reveal to you that the subject was born in 1957, and that she had four siblings. Columbus, Ohio obituaries further detail where the woman in question grew up, attended schools and worked.