how do i access obituaries from 10 years ago to now?

Answer 1

Too bad I don't have the person's name so I can give you a sample search, but "try this at home"...

www.rootsweb.com is a good, free source to find the date of someone's death as noted on the Social Security Death Index. Your library might have ancestry.com which would be better although it is only accessable at your closest branch (they don't provide free remote access, sorry).

Once you get the date and location of death, then go to both of these sites: http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html which tells how to get recent items digitized online for certain newspapers, and

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/home.html which you can use to "Search the Directory" for which newspapers covered which cities (counties also) during the years you need to get a copy of your obituary. Once you find an interesting newspaper, click on "View Complete Holdings Information" and you can find out which libraries own which issues.

For more information, go to www.worldcat.org and search by that newspaper's title. for instance the Farmington Post.. and there you will find not only which libraries own it, but there will be links to that library's catalog (Click on the library name) links to that library's hours and contact information and sometimes ways to chat with a librarian that instant (Click on Ask a Librarian).

After you've done all that, you have the option of going to your library and getting a copy through interlibrary loan, or contacting the library directly (sometimes that's pricey), or trying to find a volunteer close to that library who will send it to you.

A good site to look for volunteers is the www.usgenweb.org

Good luck.

Answer 2

Most libraries have information for the town. If you are trying to find obits for out-of-town deaths, you can try phoning the library, or checking the local paper's online archive. You may also have luck ordering old newspapers through inter-library loan.

You should post this in the genealogy section where there are experts in this topic, many local genealogy groups have volunteers who will look-up obituaries for you.

Good Luck.

Answer 3

in case you recognize approximately the place the dying surpassed off you could seem in the nearby newspapers from that area. maximum have some variety of seek characteristic. Copies of dying certificates that recent at the instant are not often searchable, and are basically launched with fee of a value or maybe then basically to limited human beings, which includes relatives.

Answer 4

If you know where the person died, see if the local library or newspaper keeps past newspapers on microfilm. If its recent enough, just try searching the name and see if its available in the online version of the newspaper.

Answer 5

Depending on the newspaper, and how much they've managed to put online so far, you may have to go to their "morgue" -- their archives -- and look it up on their microfiche files.