There are several genealogy reminders from this 1962 funeral notice from a newspaper in Quincy, Illinois.
It never hurts to search digital images of newspapers for people even when “you know everything about them.” That’s how I originally located this item when searching for my great uncle Alvin Ufkes in a database of newspaper clippings on Ancestry.com. I had not seen the item until I performed that search. My uncle had been a pallbearer at the funeral for his great aunt Anna Buhrmeister. Four of the other pallbearers were names I recognized as members of the same family.
The original database of newspaper clippings where I found the funeral notice did not include the precise date of publication. I wanted that and decided to search for the item in the complete set of digitized newspapers which were not available when this item was originally located. I searched that database for Alvin Ufkes–the person I used to locate the item in the clipping collection–and did not find it. I finally located it by searching for another name. That’s a good reminder that OCR indexes may not locate every reference to every name in a newspaper.
Now I have to see if I can determine how that sixth pallbearer is related to the deceased–if he is related at all.
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