We don't track the obits that we do. We can locate them using things like Social Security Index, sometimes Google if someone has published a family tree, cemetery indexes for the various counties, biography files that we have onsite, etc. Dean On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Bonnie Griffis Lewis <griffle@cox.net>wrote: > Hi Dean! Are your obits indexed by any chance? > > Thanks, Bonnie > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dean DeBolt" <ddebolt@uwf.edu> > To: <fl-wfgs@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 9:16 AM > Subject: Re: [FL-WFGS] Obits? > > > > Special Collections staff will look up obituaries and send to anyone in > > the > > world without charge. I don't think a day passes that we don't look up > > an > > obit and send it to someone. We have newspaper holdings for the ten > > counties of the Panhandle that go back as far as we can get the papers. > > Many are on microfilm, but we have vast holdings of papers that are not > on > > film and can also cross-check obits with other sources. > > > > For example, many of the small towns in the panhandle are weeklies. > > Sometimes the obituaries are listed in the closest "daily" paper town. > > Obituaries for Santa Rosa County are often in the Pensacola papers. > > > > We have paper runs of the Pensacola Journal from 1905 through the 1950s > > and > > runs of the Pensacola News from about the same period though the > microfilm > > begins in 1889 when the News launched. Before that we use the Pensacola > > Gazette which runs 1821-roughly 1857; we have two different microfilm > sets > > of the Gazette from two different universities because neither has quite > > the > > same issues as the other. > > > > I probably should give a program sometime on newspaper holdings, > > especially > > for Florida about finding them and using them. > > > > Dean > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Evan Strohl <estrohl@cox.net> wrote: > > > >> Simple question: > >> > >> Is anyone currently doing obits, daily---for publication > >> via the WFGS? > >> > >> Evan > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Dean DeBolt, University Librarian > > Special Collections > > University of West Florida Library > > 11000 University Parkway > > Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 > > ddebolt@uwf.edu; 850-474-2213 > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Dean DeBolt, University Librarian Special Collections University of West Florida Library 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 ddebolt@uwf.edu; 850-474-2213