Chicago History Museum Funeral Home Records

My recent genealogy adventure was to look at funeral home records for C. H. Jordan & Company at the Chicago History Museum. The below image is an example of an entry by the undertaker in 1907.

This particular collection has records dating back to 1866, before the Chicago Fire.

The Chicago History Museum has the following Undertaker’s Records in their Collection:

1. Birren & Sons Funeral Home, 1868-1943
2. C. H. Jordan & Company, 1866-1924
3. Frederic Klaner, Undertaker and Embalmer, 1893-1898
4. Gleason Funeral Home (formerly Martin Gleason & Son), 1916-1977
5. Henry F. Schroeder, 1908-1928

Considering that there are some records from 1866-1871, it might be worth reviewing if you have ancestors that disappeared during this timeframe when Death Certificates would not exist because of the fire in October 1871.