Just like any online record, online obituaries on funeral home websites can disappear. Funeral homes go out of business, merge with other facilities, change their entire website design, etc. Any of these situations can cause obituaries that were once online to go away forever. Newspaper obituaries may hang around for a longer amount of time, but they may be shorter than the notice published on the funeral home’s website. My mother’s obituary on the funeral home website contains the names of some survivors and pre-deceased family members that we felt were important to include, but were “too distant” to meet the newspaper’s publication standards. That’s another reason to get as many obituary copies as you can. But those funeral home website obituaries–save them when you see them. Tomorrow […]
No one website will have digital images of every newspaper you need and whether a specific site is helpful depends upon your personal research interests. Our suggestions here are meant to get you started. I’m not intending to provide a comprehensive list, but the sites listed, along with the suggestions, will get you on your way to locating digital images of newspapers you need–if they are online. Some websites with links to specific newspapers: Wikipedia list of online newspaper archives Newspaper links from the Ancestor Hunt Library of Congress’ Chronicling America newspaper images Old Fulton New York Postcards To see what might have been published try: Library of Congress’ Newspaper Directory searching the card catalog at WorldCat–use city/town as part of your search term Reach out to locals. […]
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