does anyone know a site to look up obits w/o a charge? am trying to find one from ok in 1999 thru 2001?

Question

lawton ok to be exact

female, last name porter, supossed to have died may 2000 lived in lawton, ok

Answer 1

Could you give us a name? I subscribe to some newspaper archives and I can check if I have a name.

Answer 2

Any obit ONLINE is a hit and miss proposition. I am hunting for one right now for a recent death of a friend, and it is not coming up. Some families don't publish them, or have "one liners" that are not too useful when we researchers want all the details. Another thing to consider is where the person ACTUALLY lived, instead of where they died. IE, my friend died in Reno, Nevada..which is about 60 miles from the smaller town of Janesville, Calif where he lived.
The other option is to shift from a "obit only" site, to the actual website for the newspaper. Some have archives. Others don't have the archives, but you can reach them by email, to request the one you want. Obviously, if you don't have a reasonably exact date, they are not likely to spend hours searching through microfilm.
Another good route is the usgenweb page for that county. Some of these sites are EXCELLENT.. posting every scrap of research info they can think of. Others are not as good. Here is the page for Comanche county -
http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcomanc/
(and I see they have jazzed up the page since I last was there)
I do recall that Lawton has a very active genealogical society, also. Sometimes there will be volunteers associated with these, who have names posted to do look ups at the library.
Also.. www.rootsweb.com has mailing lists for almost every location in the world. You might subscribe to the Comanche county email list, get acquainted, and post a query on how to access obits. Include the name.. and you will probably get a reply either on HOW to do it, or bonus, someone local will pop off and make the offer. My tip after many years is to WORD the query in such a way that it can go both directions... not necessarily asking for a lookup, but giving enough that someone can pick up on it, if they so choose. That would also mean the family with brief details... since someone could respond that they don't have the obit, but they do have 10 pages of info on the relatives.

Answer 3

Got one for you www.findagrave.com

This a free site where you can look every where in any State or city and cemetery. Also the site is divided by "Famous" people and regular people. You do not have to join or any thing only later if you want to add some thing you just have to log in.