Not just a fan

Do you read the bulletin (program) at a funeral? Some contain a wealth of information about the person who is being remembered.As a genealogist, I treasure these printed mini-histories for the details they share about a person. Most people won't get a paragraph in a history book. Even a narrowly focused history of a county won't have information about all the people who lived, worked, and contributed in some way to the life of the community. The funeral program tells just a bit of their story

The African American Funeral Programs from the East Central Georgia Regional Library online collection consists of over one thousand funeral programs ranging from 1933 to 2008 (with the bulk of the collection beginning in the 1960s) from the Eula M. Ramsey Johnson Memorial Funeral Program Collection.

A majority of the programs are from churches in Augusta, Georgia, and the surrounding area, with a few outliers in other states such as New York and Florida. The programs typically contain a photograph of the deceased, an obituary, a list of surviving relatives, and the order of service. The collection provides extensive genealogical information about the deceased, including birth and death dates, maiden names, names of relatives, past residences, and place of burial.

Alongside this genealogical information, the obituaries provide a rich source of local history about African Americans. Many of the people included in this collection were prominent in their communities, and many were involved locally in the struggle for civil rights.

Read the histories of real people. Let them be remembered.

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