Most funeral homes keep their records. A funeral home that has helped me out in Massachusetts has been in business for over a hundred years and still have all of their records. From what I understand if someone buys a funeral home business the records are normally transferred to the new owner. The funeral home I have looked for in Ohio, just sold out and their records disappeared. A funeral home in upstate N.Y. actually went to the cemetery for me and look for the grave of my ancestor. They will very often have record of the person who gave the information, if they were a veteran and you can find out what church they may have belonged to. I would definitely take the chance and write. I read somewhere that local libraries will sometimes have funeral home records. Alice in NC Caldwell, Marple, Sullivan, Porch, Price http://www.excelir.com/ageier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bette LoPresti" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 8:15 AM Subject: [NJCAMDEN] funeral homes > I saw the post about Foster's Funeral home and was wondering if the > funeral homes do keep records back to the 50's or so and if they do, what > kind of information they would have other than the death date. My great > aunt was buried from John A. Healy's in Haddon Heights. I checked online > and got their number, but I figured if someone else has contacted a funeral > home I would find out what kinds of things they would have in their records > before I call. If all they have is the death date it wouldn't make any > sense to bother them, since I already have that. What I'm interested in is > who took care of the funeral arrangements and whether her husband was > buried from there and his date of death, which I don't have. I would love > to hear from anyone who has experience with contacting funeral homes, > especially the John A. Healy one. Thanks. > > Bette LoPresti > Hollywood, FL > > >