Search For Obituary

From online search tools to personal resources, here’s how to find someone’s obituary online or offline. Offline Sources for Finding an Obituary If your online search doesn’t help, there are still other places where you can find an old obituary. Finding an obituary can be a complete process, but the information you can find can be worth it. Searching for an obituary can tell you a lot of details about a particular person.

 Names are usually passed down through families, and you don’t want to spend time looking around just to find the wrong person’s obituary. Many obituaries can find the whereabouts of the relatives of the deceased at the time they were published. You can also search by the name of a family member who may have been mentioned in the obituary. If you can’t find an obituary, you can also try looking for other types of newspaper stories related to your ancestors’ deaths.

 If you find other newspaper mentions of the ancestor you’re looking for an obituary for, look at how the newspaper spelled the name, and then try searching using the same spelling. Once you find the name, enter the name of the place and the word newspaper or obituary. If you have the person’s full name, type “(Full Name) Obituary” into Google to find very helpful results. To find an obituary, enter the name and surname of the deceased in the search bar in the upper right corner of the page.

 Obituaries can often be found by searching for a person’s name on Google. The place of death is often listed in the obituary, making it easier to find what you’re looking for. If you’re looking for obituaries from many years ago, you can go to the library in the City of the Dead. Obituary Finder collects obituaries from newspapers, death certificates, and county information.

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Once you find the journal you want, you can search its online obituary archives by finding that journal’s website. If you do not find an obituary in the above databases, you can visit the Central Library to learn more about our other microfilmed newspapers. When looking for an obituary, you need to examine the files of all possible newspapers. This means you have to look through the Los Angeles city newspapers page by page next to the date of death (usually on microfilm) or search for keywords in scanned newspaper format.

 The fastest way to find an obituary for a specific person is to search for one or more paid online obituaries or genealogical research services. It will likely be the rare occasion that you type in your ancestors’ name and the first result of the search is your ancestors’ obituary. If your search returns too many results even for sorting with filters, you can try using additional search terms such as “obituary”, “death”, “dead”, “dead”, “funeral”, “memory”, “in memory”, etc.

 

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