Hi Perce. Wish I had known you were in USA before we started. Many years ago people did big obits with all their history and family but it seems to have died out around the 70's. Now we just have death notices unless it is someone famous. Also it was a death notice you were asking about not an obit. I think our Ryerson index is unique in the way it works as my cousin in Canada says they do not have anything like it. Sorry for all the problems. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Percival P. Cassidy" <Nobody@NotMyISP.net> Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.australia+nz To: <genanz@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 1:11 AM Subject: Re: BENNETT, John Oscar > wollar1914 wrote: >> >> BENNETT, John Oscar - John passed away peacefully on August 31st 2003 at >> War Veterans Nursing home, Narrabeen. Dearly loved husband of Marcia, >> dear brother to Elaine and Marle, father and father-in-law of Paul, Mark >> and Lesley, Keren and Peter and loved grandfather of their children. >> Aged 76 years. >> A Memorial Service will be held on Wednesday (Sept 3 , 2003 ) at St >> Columba Pres. Church, corner Warringah Rd and Sharkey Street, >> Forestville commencing at 11 am Privately interred at Frenchs Forest >> Lawn Cemetery. > > Thank you very much -- and also for the image file you emailed me. > > I am sorry that I did not understand that the Ryerson Index is a > volunteer-based operation; I am so used to blocking out the advertising > on the right of the Google results screen and on one or both edges of > other Web pages that I had overlooked the links on the left of the > Ryerson Index page. > > The obituary-indexing systems here in the USA where I am now living all > seem to be commercial, and my original assumption was that the text of > the obituaries would be on line somewhere so that I could simply copy > and paste. In addition, when I had Googled the name I found in another > Ryerson Index obituary, I had found the full text on a message board; I > was assuming that the text of other obituaries would be on line too if > only I knew how to find it. > > I don't know whether you have ever looked at any US obituaries, but they > seem to be far more comprehensive than those in the Australian papers. > Some are mini-biographies, with birth details (when, where, parents' > names, including mother's maiden name), marriage details (when, where, > to whom), church membership, military service, employment history, > details of deceased and surviving family members, etc. Even the briefer > ones are a few column-inches in length. Some are published more than > once in the same paper. > > "Perce" > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENANZ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >