How do I go about looking for where my uncle is buried?

Question

The last thing that I know about where he was he wrote me before he died in Ohio. He also said that he received a check from our government in Austin Texas. He also had a set of twins that he gave up for adoption and never talked to again that I know of.

Answer 1

PS If you go to zabasearch.com, you may still find his name there, if he was alive in the past 5 years or so. It may give you his last address.

Death Records, and Death Certificates at the Ohio Historical Society website or for later ones, at the Ohio Department of Health.

Copied from the websites listed:

Before 1867
Ohio did not make it a law to keep death records until 1867.

1867 through December 19, 1908
Ohio made it a law to record deaths in 1867. County probate courts kept death records between 1867 and December 19, 1908. There is no statewide index to death records from 1867 through December 19, 1908. Go to the list of county probate court death records held at the Ohio Historical Society. If the Ohio Historical Society does not hold a county's death records, please contact the county's probate court. A list of county courthouse contacts is available at Ohio County Courthouse Addresses.

December 20, 1908 through December 31, 1953
The state of Ohio began issuing certificates for deaths on December 20, 1908. The Ohio Historical Society holds death certificates for the entire state of Ohio from December 20, 1908 through December 31, 1953 You may wish to visit our online Ohio Death Certificate Index for 1913-1937.

January 1, 1954 to the present
Death certificates from 1954 to the present are held by the Ohio Department of Health. You should contact the Ohio Department of Health at the address below for information concerning their request procedures.
Ohio Department of Health
Division of Vital Statistics
PO Box 15098
Columbus, OH 43215-0098
[phone]

Answer 2

I would look up his name first of all in the Social Security Death Index. It will show where he was living when he died.
You can do that at this link: http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/

Then I would check cemetery records the best place to do that is to go to the Genweb project website for the state of Ohio and check cemeteries in the place he died. the link for that is:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohgenweb/

if you would like some addtl help e-mail me some more info particularly his name and approximate date of death and the location he died if you find it and I will try to see what I can locate for you.

Answer 3

Look up cemeteries in the state. They usually have a list of people buried there. Might take some real looking into, but i did that as well and after about 3 hrs i found my grandpa. good luck

Answer 4

Google his name with Quotation marks around it
"Joe Smith"

Search through the results.

if you have any additional information about his local area, call local cemetaries to see if they have him in their records

Answer 5

The death index database might help you. It is listed under US links in the Gene link section.

http://free-genealogy-info.zoomshare.com/0.html

Hope you find him.