Can anyone tell me if there is a free sight to find old obituaries for people in the united states?

Question

I am wanting to find obituaries oof people in my family.I have been trying for days. I would also like to find a free cemetary lookup to. i would like to be able to locate a grave of a dear friend of mine so I can go visit her grave.

Answer 1

one method is if you know the local paper name of the place where they died, if you do not google obituary and the persons name. also there is a website called www.cyndislist.com free websites for cemetaries, obits, states counties etc check it out

Answer 2

If you know the city and the date when your relatives died, you can usually ask the local library in that city to do a lookup for the obituary. If they find it, copy it and send it to you, they will typically charge you a couple dollars.

Also, for a grave, you will want to look at http://www.findagrave.com where there are millions of records. Volunteers have transcribed cemeteries and posted many pictures--it's worth searching, I've had great success there.

Good luck,
Dave
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Answer 3

The above two has some good ideas. However, another angle if you know the state and county they died in and when they died, you could put a message on the message board in Rootsweb, under U. S. then, State, then, county requesting one. Often there are people monitoring the boards who will get one for you. The message will also show up on Ancestry.Com's message board.

If you can do the same on Genealogy.Com's message boards, it might help. I don't know if you are required to have a membership to Genealogy.Com in order to do so.

There is a thing called RAOGK. Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness.

Answer 4

I agree with Jester, I have had good luck by Google the person's name and the word "obituary". It has to be recent though, because newspapers just started doing it online in about the past 15 years, or even later in some small towns.

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Answer 5

NewsBank has an obituary component, but I think you may need a password. You might want to contact your local library to see if they have access. My understanding is that some libraries do and your library card # plus the password given by the library will work.

http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_product=OBIT&p_action=keyword&p_theme=obits&p_nbid=P6BE58ISMTE4MDA1MTAzMi41OTEzNjU6MTo1OjIxMjY4&p_clear_search=&s_search_type=keyword&s_category=none&d_refprod=OBIT