Searching for Erie County Obituaries and Death Records

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

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Erie County PA Obituaries and Online Search

That brings us to online searching. Yes, you now have the opportunity to search for Erie County obituaries. Thousands of people die in Erie County 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 Erie 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, Erie County 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 Erie County Obituaries Contain

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