To find an individual's place of foreign birth in an obituary, you must at least know the approximate date of death, the full name of the deceased, and the state and city or town where the death took place (or where the obituary was likely to have been published). If you do not have the minimum information to access a newspaper article, you can either:

Get help finding some of the minimum information by selecting one of the following items,

Name

Death date

Place of death

click the Back on your browser to return to the list of other places where you can find a place of foreign birth, or

read the paragraphs below for a few additional tips.

Finding a country of foreign birth

Try finding out where the individual's parents were married. The mother may have given birth in the same town.

Make sure to check photo albums, scrapbooks, diaries, and family Bibles at home. See the topic Finding information at home for more information. Also check for local histories. See the topic Finding previous research.

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