Searching for Lehigh Valley Obituaries and Death Records

Are you looking for Lehigh Valley 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. Lehigh Valley obituaries, unlike death records, contain detailed information about the person's life - not just the name and date of death. In fact, Lehigh Valley, PA newspaper articles originally published Pennsylvania obituaries. A fairly recent phenomenon is the archiving of these Lehigh Valley obituaries, first through microfilm, and then through online databases.

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Lehigh Valley PA Obituaries and Online Search

That brings us to online searching. Yes, you now have the opportunity to search for Lehigh Valley obituaries. Thousands of people die in Lehigh Valley each year, and most of these people are mentioned in local Pennsylvania obituaries. While looking up these records on microfilm would be a chore, with online Lehigh Valley 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, Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania obituaries also contain information you cannot get elsewhere, including Pennsylvania cemetery records, which usually only have transcriptions and years.

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What Lehigh Valley Obituaries Contain

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