Searching for Duval County Obituaries and Death Records

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

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Duval County FL Obituaries and Online Search

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

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What Duval County Obituaries Contain

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