Community organizations, libraries, museums, and other institutions around the country are digitizing African American Funeral Programs. Researchers and genealogists may find these additional collections to be of interest.
The Buffalo Genealogical Society of African Diaspora (BGSAD) Funeral Program and Obituary Project was envisioned by the late Robert N. Davis, Jr. cofounder of the Society. The volumes of the collection are housed in the William A. Miles Room at the Frank Merriweather, Jr. Library. The programs in the collection were donated by individuals, funeral homes, churches, and print shops.
"The Chatham County African-American Funeral Programs Collection documents the lives and deaths of several generations of Chatham County residents. The collection was established with the donation of nearly 800 programs to the Chatham County Historical Association by Ms. Annie Ruth Burnette in 2011. Major contributions to the collection subsequently have been made by Ollie Crutchfield Burnette, Bertha Dowdy, Phyllis Fearrington, Arzalia Nettles Taylor, and Delphine Goldston Womack."
