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Happy Halloween: Spooky Collections, Online Graveyards and more
Ditch the flashlight this Halloween and take a trip through MyHeritage’s online graveyards.
We’ve found over 100,000 Freddy Kruegers, 6,000 Munster families and 5,000 Frankensteins in our vast database of over 5.5 billion historical records!
If that hasn’t spooked you enough, we found over 2 million death records from people around the world who died last year on Halloween.
Halloween is not only about tricks, ghouls and scary stories, but also a time for treats! Don’t forget to enter our Halloween competition for a chance to win a free MyHeritage data subscription.
Did you know that you can uncover family mysteries by searching through spooky collections such as death records, gravestones and obituaries?
Gravestones and other “deathly” records are a fantastic source of family history. Using death records, you can find information about other family members, birth and death dates, nicknames and more, which all add detail to the family tree.
Check out the video below from last week’s webinar on spooky genealogy tips to discover family history through death records and more.
What spooky tales do you have in your family? Have you uncovered any skeletons in your family history research? Let us know in the comments below.
Wishing you and your family a Happy Halloween!
Cherie Bennett
November 1, 2014
My Aunty Freda, my Mums sister drowned at 8 years old & Mum told me 1 thing how this happened & my Aunty Maisie told me another way this tragic happened, this happened In New Zealand. I know I wasnt even thought of when this took place, BUT just think of the cousins my family would have had if Aunty Freda had lived on, very sad. Cherie.