HOW TO EASILY ACCESS OBITUARIES ON THIS WEBSITE
An Obituary Project
has been undertaken to collect as many obituaries of
An analysis of
This project was begun in
2004. At that time, however, the County
newspapers were not available on CDs.
With the availability of the County newspapers on CDs and the help of
several volunteer researchers, the number of obituaries being generated into
the project has drastically increased.
Because of the surge in the number of obituaries, it has become
necessary to re-design the Obituary Section of the
HOW TO ACCESS
INDIVIDUAL OBITUARIES:
In the Obituary Section of
the website, you will see two kinds of entries.
One is the blue hyperlinked names; for example, “Young,
Edith Eloise Young.” The second is a set of names that are in
black and are followed by a date; for example, “Yonally, Nancy Yonally 1906.”
To access the blue hyperlinked names: To search for an obituary that is in the form
of a blue hyperlink, you first click the “Obituary” button on the home
page. This will take you to the Master Index. You then click on
the blue-letter corresponding to the first letter in the person’s surname. For example if you were looking for an
obituary for someone whose surname was “Frank,” you would click of the letter F. This in turn would
take you to an index of all the obits with surnames that begin with the letter
“F.”
This part of the index below is still the same.
To access the names that appear in black and are
followed by a date: Beginning in March 2007, you will find that an
increasing number of the names in the alphabetical lists of surnames appear in black and are followed by a year.
To access the obituaries for these names, you need to take note of the
year following the name (this is the year in which the person died) and return
to this Master Index page. Click on that year in the table-of-years at
the end of the Master Index page. You will be taken to a webpage containing
every obituary that has been added to this website since March of 2007. You can use the “search” or “find” feature to
quickly locate the name you are seeking on the webpage.
This change in procedure
has been made necessary because of the large increase in the number of obituaries
entering the database. In time, we hope
to return to a single search mode. In
the meantime, however, we are sure that you will agree that getting access to
the many new obituaries outweighs the slight inconvenience of having to use the
two search modes.
Obituaries are one of the
most productive forms of genealogy information.
You can help accelerate this project, receive your own free CDs, and get
paid for your efforts. Click
here.
Click
here to return to Obituary Master Index
Click a letter below to return to the desired
alphabetical index
Select a letter: A B C
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