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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Monmouthshire => Topic started by: Klb16 on Sunday 04 November 18 17:07 GMT (UK)

Title: way of looking for obituaries
Post by: Klb16 on Sunday 04 November 18 17:07 GMT (UK)

Hi

Can anyone tell me the easiest way to search for obituaries that would have been in the newspaper in the 1900's?

Thanks

Kerri

Title: Re: way of looking for obituaries
Post by: Drosybont on Sunday 04 November 18 18:38 GMT (UK)

What I use is Welsh Newspapers Online, the National Library of Wales site which is free to use, and has newspapers up to 1919, and British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site with newspapers from the British Library collection which has more recent papers too.  What is on the British Newspaper Archive site is also on Find My Past, but again, that is a subscription site.  All the sites use optical character recognition which doesn't always find words correctly, so it helps to try a place name as well as the name of a person.  The coverage of newspapers is incomplete and not everyone had an obituary though there may be personal details in a description of a funeral, but it isn't always possible to find anything.  If you post a name, place and date of death, people on here could have a look for you.

Drosybont