I have received obituaries of my great great grandmother and her husband from the German archives when researching my German ancestry. They were from the late 1800's. I would imagine there must have been newspapers in Alsace-Lorraine as well. Maria -----Original Message----- From: Valorie Zimmerman <valoriez@zimres.net> To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 5:54 am Subject: Re: [A-L] Obituaries On Monday 14 January 2008 11:06:59 am ebarbarajo@verizon.net wrote: > This may be a lame question, but one that I must ask. > > Are / were obituaries printed in the newspapers and are they available > anywhere? > > I know they are a tremendous resource, and am hoping that I can find some > from the 1800's to the present. > > Brab Hi, Barb, I never saw an answer to your question. You may be asking about obituaries printed in Alsatian newspapers, and about that I have no info. Some biographical information is being collected and presented by various genealogical societies, but whether they are finding, indexing and publishing obits in particular, I do not know. But obits are an untapped source for many of our immigrants and their children. They often subscribed to German language newspapers, and church magazines which would have printed obits, which would be much more complete, accurate and detailed than those printed in the English language newspapers of the time. It is worthwhile to do some research and find out what newspapers might have been read by your ancestors -- likely places for their descendants to have places obits and memorials. The local genealogical and historical societies in the localities where your ancestors lived will know this information. For more background on this subject, see: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/newspapers.html -- this one needs some more updated info -- anyone have anything to add to this? http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/death-records-obituaries-biographies.html As always, please report any bad / updated links you find. And I'm always looking for more helpful links. They are supplied by you, the researchers. Valorie -- Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com

Even if there were obituaries published in Alsace-Lorraine newspapers, I think they may not have been archived. We may want to ask some of the newspapers there if this has been done... - Giliane -----Original Message----- From: alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of mvicareo@aol.com Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 1:18 PM To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [A-L] Obituaries I have received obituaries of my great great grandmother and her husband from the German archives when researching my German ancestry. They were from the late 1800's. I would imagine there must have been newspapers in Alsace-Lorraine as well. Maria -----Original Message----- From: Valorie Zimmerman <valoriez@zimres.net> To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 5:54 am Subject: Re: [A-L] Obituaries On Monday 14 January 2008 11:06:59 am ebarbarajo@verizon.net wrote: > This may be a lame question, but one that I must ask. > > Are / were obituaries printed in the newspapers and are they available > anywhere? > > I know they are a tremendous resource, and am hoping that I can find some > from the 1800's to the present. > > Brab Hi, Barb, I never saw an answer to your question. You may be asking about obituaries printed in Alsatian newspapers, and about that I have no info. Some biographical information is being collected and presented by various genealogical societies, but whether they are finding, indexing and publishing obits in particular, I do not know. But obits are an untapped source for many of our immigrants and their children. They often subscribed to German language newspapers, and church magazines which would have printed obits, which would be much more complete, accurate and detailed than those printed in the English language newspapers of the time. It is worthwhile to do some research and find out what newspapers might have been read by your ancestors -- likely places for their descendants to have places obits and memorials. The local genealogical and historical societies in the localities where your ancestors lived will know this information. For more background on this subject, see: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/newspapers.html -- this one needs some more updated info -- anyone have anything to add to this? http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/death-records-obituaries-biographies.h tml As always, please report any bad / updated links you find. And I'm always looking for more helpful links. They are supplied by you, the researchers. Valorie -- Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com -- Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.19/1256 - Release Date: 2/2/2008 1:50 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.19/1256 - Release Date: 2/2/2008 1:50 PM