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From: "Kathy Hoover" <>
Subject: Re: Funeral homes in TX as resources
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 21:50:18 -0600


I've called several TX funeral homes, too, but couldn't get any information
from them. The ones I called stated that their rules of confidentiality
wouldn't allow them to share anything with me unless I could prove I was
immediate family. Fourth cousins once removed didn't count!

-----Original Message-----
From: Charley Burgess <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: BAILEY

....I called the County
>offices of that Georgia county and they told me I could obtain more
>information and quicker information by calling one of the two local funeral
>homes. ......
>More to the point, I learned that funeral homes (at least here in Texas)
>keep valuable records and I have used them as a starting point for several
>difficult to find relatives. I would locate the funeral home in Rusk Co.
>that performed his funeral. The records that they may have are: name,
>birth date, birth place, parents names, survivors, type of work, religious
>affiliation, how long lived in the county, etc.
>

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