The Modesto Bee announced today that it's obituaries will now be archived so that they can be retrieved at a later date on line for free. Here is the main Modesto Bee page http://www.modbee.com/ and the link to the obituary page http://www.modbee.com/obituaries/0,2131,,00.html The effective date of the online searchable database archives was November 22, 1999. Colleen Norby