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Question:obituaries? i keep getting refferred to ancestry.com, which i have a membership....and if they dont have it so i look up findagrave.com....nothing. i eventually keep going back to ask a librarian...but sometimes its like im interupting thier day, but isnt that part of thier job?...any ideas, obviously if i cant find them on ancestry.com and keep getting refferred back there, im lost

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: obituaries? i keep getting refferred to ancestry.com, which i have a membership....and if they dont have it so i look up findagrave.com....nothing. i eventually keep going back to ask a librarian...but sometimes its like im interupting thier day, but isnt that part of thier job?...any ideas, obviously if i cant find them on ancestry.com and keep getting refferred back there, im lost

Try asking the Mormon church ... the Mormons have THE BEST GENEALOGY RESOURCES IN THE WORLD and they will 'look up' things for ANYONE ... just give them the correct 'dates' or the correct 'names' and turn them loose. I am NOT a Mormon, by the way, but a Catholic, but I have used the Mormon genealogy resources myself when I was doing some research ... they are THE BEST and if they don't have it, they will know WHERE to look.

in the news paper

go to a cemetery

Defiantly the newspapers during that time.

Go to the library because they usually save them.

Hope you find what you need.

Happy Holidays! ;-D

sometimes the places yer ancesters live keep records in their hometown

i have seen that online

my parents were from gemany, u need to find the town and see if they kept records there

depends what yer looking for i guess

believe it or not obituarys.com is a real link! it has two good links for you:

www.newspaperarchive.com

www.become.com

go to google
go to the news tab
click on archives on the left
search in old newspapers
Sometimes you have to pay for the full article, but it goes back over 100 years.

Try the web sites below, hope this of some help

Good luck and good hunting

It is very possible, what you want isn't online.

Rootsweb & Genealogy.Com have message boards. You can go under a surname or a location. I prefer a location for something like this. You go under the country, then the state, then the county. Once you are under the county, put in an inquiry for an obituary. Sometimes there are people who monitor the boards that will help you. It is called RAOGK (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness). If the library has newspapers on microfilm, you should be able to look it up yourself.

It might be my age, but I find most obituaries online are current events not history.

lots of good answers so far, but not everyone had an obituary, and it can be very difficult to find very old ones. i've used many of the links posted in the other answers, so hopefully one of them leads you to what u are looking for.