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Look up an old newspaper from say 100-120 years ago and check out the obituaries.
Or just walk through an old graveyard. There’s a pioneer cemetery near my old place with so many children’s graves. One family gravesite has the mother’s name, the father’s name, a couple of their kids, some young, some adults… and one is just titled ‘babies’.
Like, so many babies died for that mother and father they just put them all in one grave, not even names to remember them by…
https://swahsociety.com/records/obituaries/obituaries-1880s