is there an obituary site?

Question

Please let me know if any one knows if there is a "obituary site" for a city. If so I would love to have the website! thank you so much!! Or let me know how i could find one...is there a way you can look at obituaries in the past??? If so let me know! Thanks soooo much in advance =]

Answer 1

Check with your local library. Many subscribe to news services that you can use as a library patron. Sometimes you can only use them in the library but some have links from their web site that allow you to search from home.

Answer 2

An "obituary site" would be part of a funeral home (in recent years, there are message boards for people to post condolences and memories of people who pass away) or a local newspaper, but I don't know that old obits would be on a website. Your best bet is still to go to the newspaper office or local public library and look through microfilm and microfische (I can't spell today). That stuff goes back decades.

Also, contact the office in your county that handles birth and death certificates.

Answer 3

There are some sites where people have transcribed obituaries for genealogical purposes. There aren't specific "obituary sites" for specific cities. Some newspapers have their archives on line, but often they only go back a few years. If you do a Google search for the name of the person, and add the year that they died (John Doe 1945) you may hit on an obituary if there's on one on line somewhere. Or use one of the genealogy websites (Ancestry.com or rootsweb.com, for instance, and search through them.)

Answer 4

One of the best places to find obits is on www.newspaperarchive.com. this is a constantly expanding site that adds more newspapers daily. some areas of the US are covered better than others.

Answer 5

www.ancestry.com they have a lot of info.