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 >