Searching for Portsmouth Obituaries and Death Records

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

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Portsmouth RI Obituaries and Online Search

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

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What Portsmouth Obituaries Contain

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