If an obit is for dates after 1955 I can get them on a local basis- I do not if I can help it drive into Tampa- not a fun drive-LOL- but I can get some obits near my home from the college- also a fellow told me he found The Evening Independant ( a St.Pete paper) on line- also a paper for the Arcadia area- The Champion lots of issues for 1906-1908 -these found at the Library of Congress-Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95047227/issues/ Hope it is ok to send this URL through the list. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Awkoska" <westhistorian@yahoo.com> To: <flhillsb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 1:06 PM Subject: [FLHILLSB] Online obits > > > I don't use the message boards but want to acknowledge receipt of this and > one other reply from gatewayed message to my query. > > I appreciate the help. > > Awkoska/Fran > > > While I don't know of an online site that has the *text* of Tampa > area obituaries prior to 1990, I do know of TRAILS, which is a > volunteer-created database that provides an *index* to obituaries that > appeared in the Tampa Tribune and some of the earlier newspapers in the > Tampa area. > > It goes all the way > back to the earliest newspaper issues and goes forward into the 1980s. > > TRAILS can be accessed from the TRAILS link on this page: > http://www.hcplc.org/hcplc/dw/genealogy.html > > The full text of the Tampa Tribune from January 1, 1990 forward is > available online in such databases as Access World News, which your > local public or academic > library may provide access to. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FLHILLSB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message