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Can an obituary be found with only a name and city and state?
If it can be located without a date, the S.S. Death Index and Google and others, are not finding it.
The deceased may have died as child, and thus there may not be a s.s. number.
Can an obituary be found with only a name and city and state?
If it can be located without a date, the S.S. Death Index and Google and others, are not finding it.
The deceased may have died as child, and thus there may not be a s.s. number.
Check this site to see if there are digitized newspapers for the area where the person resided:
Can an obituary be found with only a name and city and state? If it can be located without a date, the S.S. Death Index and Google and others, are not finding it. The deceased may have died as child, and thus there may not be a s.s. number.
Check this site to see if there are digitized newspapers for the area where the person resided:
All I have is the approximate birth year, city, state, name.
However the birth year was in the 1980's, so it is not a search from very far back in time.
On another search, I had the death date and it was 1992 and still no obituary.
I wonder what is harder to find: information from 1825-1950 or information from 1950 to present?
In some cases the hardest to find may be the more recent.
Can an obituary be found with only a name and city and state?
If it can be located without a date, the S.S. Death Index and Google and others, are not finding it.
The deceased may have died as child, and thus there may not be a s.s. number.
Do you know if the person was buried? You might get more detailed DOB and DOD if they are listed here: Find A Grave.
I found an obit 2 years after the death. However, I didn't know it had been (only - as in recent) 2 years. I just googled the person's name with the word obiturary.
Ancestry.com has a database of obituaries and death notices going way back.
Obviously they don't have every newspaper from every town, but it's worth a try. It's a pay site, but you can do the search free. If you see an answer that looks promising, you can then pay for a short-term membership.
Newer events are harder to trace in some ways. Vital records are not public access for a long time (differs state-to-state.)
So, you said it's the 1980's, what city / state? If we knew that we may be able to point you in the right direction.
Do you know what cemetery the person may be in? If so, you can call the cem office & ask if someone with that name is there.
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