How do I look up obituaries?

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How do I look up obituaries?

When my dad died in 2001, I found his obituary online. Now I can't find it. I have googled his name, his name with the word obituary, his name with 2001, and his name with the city he died in, and many other searches. I have went to different obituary search sites and I haven't found it. Even on the newspaper's site, I couldn't find it... how do you people do it?? lol please let me know...

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3 days ago
You didn't read the question ryan...

3 days ago
I am in Morristown, Tennessee US.
Sorry about the confusion..

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 3 days ago
You didn't read the question ryan...3 days ago
I am in Morristown, Tennessee US.
Sorry about the confusion.. Hi Jennifer, you can call the Necrology Dept. at you local public library and give them the details and you'll be able to run by there and pick up a copy or go to the link below and click on your state on the left and when you get there, click on the county you want and when you can enter search data, enter your info broadly, if you need more help once you get there, email me. Do you remember what paper it was in? If you give me some details I may be able to find it for you, then give you the steps I went through to get what you need. The process is a little different for every state. In Ohio, where I am, I have access to marriage records and court records online. It would help to know what state you're in. Feel free to email me.

http://www.usgenweb.org/ Source(s):
I do house titles professionally and genealogy as a hobby. In the news paper? or look them up in your local library. OR.. on the .... Internet perhaps? A lot of times the obituaries that were printed online are archived, meaning that they are no longer searchable. The newspapers websites archive them so that they have room for the new ones. If you can't find it online any longer you can go to your local library and look in their reference section. They keep hundreds of newspapers for years and years. You can then make photocopies. Good luck to you. Good question idk, if you find out let me know before you choose a best answer. It sounds like you have been extremely exhaustive. Jshepard is right, if it was printed in the local paper it is in their archive. Look for the archives on the website. Sometimes they make you pay for access. You could also visit the paper and search their archives, they may also charge for that. Ancestory.co.uk
Use you credit card to sign up and then cancel after 10 days before they start to charge.
you have all sorts of records to view, easy to trace family roots to found a link that took my family back over 300 years.

try here too Is there like a local county recorder's listing for the city where your father passed??
deaths, like births, have certificates; and they are maintained in the county recorder's office of that town. good luck. Someone answered your question giving you a link to the National Archives they wont help you at all Jennifer because it's for Government Records only. I think I would give the paper a phone call and ask them whats happened to it. You pay for these obituaries to go on line and it is meant to be a forever thing, or they should have at least made it clear to you that after a while it gets moved.
If you are in the UK and would like some help with this one you can email me through my profile and I'll do what I can to help you, you will have to give your dads name though if you decide to email me, and the date he died.
Hope this helps. Either go to the local library and look up a printed copy of the newspaper or try google, then google news and have a look in the archive section, it may still be there.

Good luck and good hunting I think the reply that they've been archived is the reason why you cannot find it now.

If you are in the UK you could try http://www.familia.org.uk/ which should tell you which library in the area holds family history records, if you contact the library with all the details and ask them to look it up in the local /national paper concerned I'm sure they'll send you a copy of the item. They've done it for me before free of charge, but now there is a growing demand for this sort of thing they may well charge you.

I'm willing to bet that other countries have a similar system.
Good Luck You didn't say which country you are in. If the UK, and the area your Dad died in is not local to you, it is unlikely the nearest library will be able to help you.
There is a national Newspaper Library, part of the British Library, in Colindale, North London. Don't suppose the info you want is on-line, you will probably have to visit. Perhaps Google Newspaper Library or try www.bl.uk/collections/newspape... sorry, should be newspapers.html, won't transfer over properly. If you have access to the newspaper archives online than you can get it that way but you can also try cindyslist.com as it has a section with obituaries in it