| Trying to find public records, like an obituary | | | | Genealogy Banks |
| listings, can be a trying process if you are not | | | | The LDS church has one of the largest genealogy |
| familiar with where to look, or what resources are | | | | record databases in the world. Genealogy records |
| available. Here are some places to get started: | | | | provide: birth dates, death dates, and family |
| Newspaper obituaries | | | | history information. Be careful here, the spelling |
| There are a couple of options on how to search | | | | must be exact. It is completely free to search. |
| for a newspaper obituary. Going to different | | | | The dates are not limited. The LDS records have |
| newspapers or libraries to look at microfilm, is a | | | | listings as far back as people have been able to |
| little unreasonable. In the late 90's, most | | | | trace their genealogy. |
| newspapers started to digitize their obituaries, so | | | | There are multiple other genealogy banks, but |
| that they can easily be found on the newspapers | | | | most of them draw their information from the |
| home site. However, the archives are often | | | | LDS site, or newspapers. |
| limited in dates. Most newspaper home sites do | | | | Social Security Death Index |
| not have any obituaries listed prior to the late 90s. | | | | Search engines like Locate or Roots web provide |
| Libraries and Universities have wonderful online | | | | you with a tool to search by name or social |
| archives that are comprised from several | | | | security number. If you use a name, the site will |
| resources. There you will find a search engine with | | | | list all the people by that name, their state, death, |
| multiple listings for old and new obituaries. | | | | birth, SS#, and where the info was retrieved |
| Then there are online search portals like that | | | | from. The Search is free, but to order the record |
| provide a one stop shop. Search portals will | | | | carries a small fee. Most of these are using the |
| automatically redirect you to other sites. You will | | | | Social Security Death Index, which only has |
| not have to type each site into your browser. | | | | records after the 60s. |
| The National Obituary Archive has over 55 million | | | | These should get you off to a good start for an |
| obituary entries, making it one of the largest | | | | online obituary search. |
| newspaper obituary archives. | | | | |