Comments on: More on How to Search Obituaries and Death Notices in Old Newspapers

By: admin

admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:57:23 +0000

Your case is a perfect example of one that “might” have success with a NewspaperArchive subscription.
They do have a browse feature where you can read newspapers by date. There are two sets of newspapers from Provo, Utah that cover the 1960 date you mention, so it should be worth a subscription. It would seem that auto accidents with fatality should be fairly easy to find.
If you are not able to find what you seek you might want to consider engaging a professional researcher from Salt Lake City that will know how to access newspapers that have not yet been digitized.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:11:42 +0000

This is all very informative, but what if a person knows the date of death, but not the name. For example, I am currently searching the furthest reaches of the internet for the obituary of my step-mothers biological grandmother. My step-mother was adopted and the agency will not give us contact information for her biological family. All we know is ther her biological grandmother was killed in a car accident on August 1, 1960 in NOrthern Utah. We do not know her name, and I have searched the internet for months, with no luck at all. So you see, even with these new search engines, the research is far from “easy”.