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''[[Myanmar Genealogy|Myanmar]]'' | |||
== Cemetery, funeral and cremation records == | |||
[[Category: Myanmar]] | Research use: Death information in other records is often meager. Used to identify surviving children in church records, and other family relationships. Chinese and other non-Christian cemeteries are particularly valuable due to a dearth of other records. | ||
Record type: Lists of gravestone burial records, exhumations, cremations, sextons records, obituaries, funeral memorials. | |||
Time Period: 1550-present. | |||
Content: Name, age, death and burial date and place, birth date and place, sometimes relatives including immediate family and previous generations. | |||
Location: Municipal archives, church archives, libraries, Chinese community associations, cemetery offices. | |||
Population coverage: 10%. | |||
Reliability: Good.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Myanmar,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 2001.</ref> | |||
== British Cemeteries == | |||
The Family History Library has a few books on grave sites of British soldiers in various areas of South East Asia, including Myanmar (Burma). These can be located by going to a Place search in the catalog under: | |||
MYANMAR - CEMETERIES | |||
[[Category:Myanmar]] | |||