Frustration in Obit land

Moderator: MOD_nyhetsgrupper

Svar
Joe Huffuff

Frustration in Obit land

Legg inn av Joe Huffuff » 27 jul 2007 20:25:32

Lee Allen Neal
Born: Sep 14 1897
Rose Township, PA
Died: Apr 12 1969
Buffalo, NY


Cannot find an obit in any local papers (Buffalo, NY). Is there an index
of obits nationwide? There should be. This was his death date according
to the SSDI.

Donna

Re: Frustration in Obit land

Legg inn av Donna » 29 jul 2007 06:16:03

Joe,

Try the city library for obit indexes. They probably have the newspapers on
microfilm and most likely have indexed the obituaries from the microfilms.

There is no nationwide index of obits. Wow, that would be great---but what
a project! Some newspaper archives have been totally lost or destroyed (as
were all those in my hometown, 1910-1980, when the newspaper sold to a
chain), so it is impossible to index those. In addition, others may still
exist but not on microfilm and are very brittle and difficult to handle,
damaged by moisture, etc.

Good luck----

Donna

"Joe Huffuff" <the.real.rain@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:46aa46e1$0$30601$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
Lee Allen Neal
Born: Sep 14 1897
Rose Township, PA
Died: Apr 12 1969
Buffalo, NY


Cannot find an obit in any local papers (Buffalo, NY). Is there an index
of obits nationwide? There should be. This was his death date according to
the SSDI.

Hugh Watkins

Re: Frustration in Obit land

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 29 jul 2007 08:00:54

Donna wrote:
Joe,

Try the city library for obit indexes. They probably have the newspapers on
microfilm and most likely have indexed the obituaries from the microfilms.

There is no nationwide index of obits. Wow, that would be great---but what
a project! Some newspaper archives have been totally lost or destroyed (as
were all those in my hometown, 1910-1980, when the newspaper sold to a
chain), so it is impossible to index those. In addition, others may still
exist but not on microfilm and are very brittle and difficult to handle,
damaged by moisture, etc.

Good luck----

Donna

"Joe Huffuff" <the.real.rain@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:46aa46e1$0$30601$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...

Lee Allen Neal
Born: Sep 14 1897
Rose Township, PA
Died: Apr 12 1969
Buffalo, NY


Cannot find an obit in any local papers (Buffalo, NY). Is there an index
of obits nationwide? There should be. This was his death date according to
the SSDI.

in UK we have a national newspaper library
becasue of the law regarding deposits of printed books

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig& ... gle+Search

The Library of Congress maintains one of the most extensive newspaper
collections in the world. It is exceptionally strong in US newspapers,
with 9,000 titles covering the past three centuries. With over 25,000
non-US …
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/

enjoy

Hugh W






--
For genealogy and help with family and local history in Bristol and
district http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Brycgstow/

http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks

GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG

Joe Huffuff

Re: Frustration in Obit land

Legg inn av Joe Huffuff » 29 jul 2007 14:44:21

Donna, thanks, but I did do that. This is frustrating because we checked
4 days after the death for an obit in the Buffalo News archive at the
Erie County library with no results. So either the death date is wrong
(is that possible?) or he didn't deserve an obit (is THAT possible?)


Donna wrote:
Joe,

Try the city library for obit indexes. They probably have the newspapers on
microfilm and most likely have indexed the obituaries from the microfilms.

There is no nationwide index of obits. Wow, that would be great---but what
a project! Some newspaper archives have been totally lost or destroyed (as
were all those in my hometown, 1910-1980, when the newspaper sold to a
chain), so it is impossible to index those. In addition, others may still
exist but not on microfilm and are very brittle and difficult to handle,
damaged by moisture, etc.

Good luck----

Donna

"Joe Huffuff" <the.real.rain@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:46aa46e1$0$30601$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
Lee Allen Neal
Born: Sep 14 1897
Rose Township, PA
Died: Apr 12 1969
Buffalo, NY


Cannot find an obit in any local papers (Buffalo, NY). Is there an index
of obits nationwide? There should be. This was his death date according to
the SSDI.


Bruce Remick

Re: Frustration in Obit land

Legg inn av Bruce Remick » 29 jul 2007 15:27:40

"Joe Huffuff" <the.real.rain@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:46ac99f3$0$30664$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
Donna, thanks, but I did do that. This is frustrating because we checked 4
days after the death for an obit in the Buffalo News archive at the Erie
County library with no results. So either the death date is wrong (is that
possible?) or he didn't deserve an obit (is THAT possible?)


Information for obits has to be provided by survivors. Often there were no
survivors who were able to (or wanted to) do this, especially if the death
occurred in a locale where the deceased was relatively unknown. The last
two elders in our family who passed away had no obits published-- just death
notices. While there were survivors who could have come up with some
information, it just didn't seem an important part of the mourning process
at the time.

Bruce

Svar

Gå tilbake til «alt.genealogy»