Posts in June 14, 2023

People are not usually mentioned in the newspaper before they are born, but they very well can be mentioned after their death. Limiting newspaper searches for a person’s life time can result in missing references to them in: An estate notice; A “days of the past” reference; An obituary where they are listed as a pre-deceased relative; A reference to their home or farm as the former residence of your deceased relative; and so on. Most newspaper references to a person are during that person’s life time. But there are times when the dead are mentioned in a newspaper. It’s not just the living who make the news.