Your person of interest could easily have had more than one obituary or death notice. Don’t stop when you find the first obituary. Different local newspapers may have printed slightly different versions of the death notice or obituary. If your ancestor was an immigrant, a local “ethnic” newspaper may have printed an obituary or death notice–perhaps with more details than the English language newspapers. Religious, occupational, or trade publications may also have published an obituary with information not included the regular newspaper’s notice.
It is easy to make an error that simply is an unintentional error. The typographical error in the example is easy to spot “Indinan,” but errors of this type can impact dates of birth, places of birth, etc. Always consider the possibility that when one record is different from all the others that the explanation could be as easy as a simply mistake.
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