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.
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