· In this blog post, I'll share some of my most effective tips and tricks for using newspaper archives to enhance your familyhistoryresearch. It's helpful to begin your genealogy research with a specific question or goal in mind. Used by millions every month for historical research, familyhistory, crime investigations, journalism, and more.
Understanding the Context
It’s a common misunderstanding that any item in the newspaper concerning someone’s death is an obituary. But in reality, three types of remembrances may have been printed. Although not all are technically obituaries, you can use this guide to help you find and use all three.See full list on familytreemagazine.comAlthough you should look for an obituary or death notice for everyone on your family tree—not just ancestors—it’s likely that you won’t find anything for some folks. While remembrances honoring deceased loved ones are common today (in papers or increasingly, online), this wasn’t always the case.
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Key Insights
American newspapers published articles about local de...See full list on familytreemagazine.comThe proliferation of digitized newspapers, as well as obituary indexing projects, has made these sources easier to find than ever. It helps to know basic details such as when and where he died, but even if you don’t, you might get lucky with just a name search in an online newspaper database or obituary index. Obituaries normally appear in newspape...See full list on familytreemagazine.comWhen you find the obituary or death announcement you need, enter the source information into your genealogy software (or other source-tracking system) and transcribe the article word for word. Examine it carefully for clues, such as:See full list on familytreemagazine.comSee full list on familytreemagazine.comWebsites1. The Ancestor Hunt: Obituaries 2.
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Ancestry.com Obituary Collection 3. Chronicling America 4. Cyndi’s List: Obituaries 5. DeathIndexes.com 6. FamilySearch 7. GenealogyBank 8.
History of Obituaries(C-SPAN) 9. Legacy.com 10. Newspaper Obituaries on the Net 11. Newspapers.com 12.