Searching for Bates County Obituaries and Death Records

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

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Bates County MO Obituaries and Online Search

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

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What Bates County Obituaries Contain

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