Before There Were Funeral Homes...
This article published in the Global Gazette discusses the evolution of the modern funeral home and what types of records you can hope to find to aid you in your genealogy research.

Funeral Cards
Genealogist Michael John Neill describes the valuable information you may be able to find in funeral cards.

Funeral Directors
Learn more about the duties of a funeral director in this excellent article from the U.S. Department of Labor.

FuneralNet.com
An online funeral home directory for the U.S. and Canada with a few listings for funeral homes in other parts of the world. Not comprehensive as funeral homes have to pay to be listed here.

Funeral Records
Transcripts of two very informative chats given by Mark Barker on using Funeral Records in genealogy.

Info Found on a Coroner's Report
Rhonda McClure gives a good overview of coroner (medical examiner) records, an under-used resource that genealogists should investigate more thoroughly.

The National Directory of Morticians
If you know where a relative died, check The Red Book, published by the National Directory of Morticians for the names and addresses of morticians and funeral directors in that location. The online version doesn't contain as much information as the printed version.

Researching Funeral Home Records
This excellent article on the Tennessee GenWeb site looks at what you can expect to find in funeral home records and discusses methods for gaining access to them.

Researching Genealogy Through Funeral Home Records
Learn what types of information you may learn from funeral home records, how to locate funeral homes and how to best approach a funeral home for help.