Looking for Obits tips from Ancestry

Hi all, More good tips from Ancestry Daily newsletter. Hope they help.

What Was That Date? Leilani Spring After reading the 'Quick Tip' in the 30 September 2005 Newsletter, I thought I would pbutt along a bit of additional information which I have located.

When posting obituaries that do not give an actual date of rest-burial, but only state the day of the week, I go to my 'Calendar' favorite at www.timeanddate.com-datewhere I can enter the year and then look up the week the paper was issued. By doing this, I can then go back to figure out the actual rest-burial dates.

Check a Wide Range of Dates Karen Krugman When searching for obits I encourage your readers to check up to ten days after the date of rest. One tipster said to check up to four days, but I've found some obits as many as six or seven days after the rest date. I've also found a few obits that appeared the day the person died.

Check Other States where Family Lives-Lived Terri Smith Adding to Rogers "Obituary Tips" of 30 September 2005, check newspapers in the area of close living relatives. I found my grandfather's obituary in a neighboring state where he had resided twenty years earlier. He had several brothers still living there. In the case of my grandmother who lived in Oklahoma, I found hers in Georgia where her mother had lived in a small town. It never hurts to check, you may have a bonus find.

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