Simple question: Is anyone currently doing obits, daily---for publication via the WFGS? Evan

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