Resources

African American Cemeteries 

Learn about African-American customs and how the slaves where treated for their burial.

http://www.prairiebluff.com/aacemetery/

Arlington National Cemetery 

A guide to burial at Arlington National Cemetery.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/funeral_information/index.html

Prearranged Funerals Services Act

Prearranged funerals are governed by the Prearranged Funeral Services Act.
It is not necessary to pay in advance for prearranged funerals.

http://www.gov.pe.ca/infopei/index.php3?number=51008&lang=E

Celebrity Obituaries

http://www.arrangeonline.com/Obituary/obituary.asp?ObituaryID=69629188

Consumer Information 

Find out about burials information from the NFDA.

http://www.nfda.org/keytopics.php

Cross-Cultural Funeral Customs 

Learn about why the traditional funeral rite has been in transitions for various reasons.

http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/hw/ccf.html

Death and Slavery 

Death and Slavery: "Ready" Slave Funerals as Sites of Political Contestation, by Dave Burrell.

http://dave.burrell.net/slave.html

Driving Directions to a Funeral Home

http://www.mapquest.com/

Educational Programs 

Program seminars and tapes to help you learn ways to keep your finances from going in debt during the burial process.

http://www.usaaedfoundation.org/booklets/pdfList.htm

Professional Development

These resources offers you a wide variety of books, video and audio tapes on topics ranging from children and grief to business management, to public health and technical.

http://www.nfda.org/continuingeducation.php

Find a Funeral Home 

Where you can search for a funeral home of your choose.

http://arrangeonline.com/funeralHomes/main.asp

Find an Obituary

http://arrangeonline.com/Obituary/searchResults.asp?searchTerm=&flg=onebox

Funeral Costs 

... reality is that average funeral costs fall far below those for weddings, cars, boats, RVs, and even the cost of one year at a public university.

“To say that a funeral is the third most expensive item a person buys in life is just false,” said Jack Kynion, president...

http://www.nfda.org/directorArticle.php?eID=2189

Funeral Rites and Customs 

Learn about why the traditional funeral rite has been in transitions for various reasons.

http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/hw/ccf.html

General Claims Procedure

Lists general claim forms. . .

http://www.tunu.com/sear/c/l/claims.html

History of African-American Death 

Talks about the difference in African-American death practices, grieving and other information.

http://www.northbysouth.org/1998/death/deathhistory.htm

Newspapers - World Wide 

Access to online newspapers world wide.

http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html

Obituary Alert

http://arrangeonline.com/notify/

Obituary/Cemetery/Job Finder'

Site to find a job in this field, cemeteries or even send comments or flowers to people listed that has passed away.

http://www.memorialobituaries.com/memorials/obits_list.cgi

Plan A Funeral

http://www.ehow.com/how_3455_funeral.html

Social Security Benefits 

A complete directory to all of the information pamphlets and fact sheets that SSA publishes on it benefits programs.

http://www.ssa.gov/about.htm

Social Security Survivor's Benefits 

A site for the Social Security  Survivor's Benefits that can provide for the family.

http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10084.html

State Boards 

Listing of all the cemetery and funeral State/Provincial Boards.

http://www.ogr.org/index_information.html

Veterans Benefits

Designed to assist you with information on VA's National Cemeteries and other burial benefits.

http://www.cem.va.gov/

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