http://www.daddezio.com/obituary/index.html#roip Regional index of on line obituaries. This website includes obituary mailing lists were individuals can request obituary information searches. They ask you to please submit your obituaries for their databases. You have to know the name of the' newspaper and the date it was published. That can be difficult when all you have is a clipping without any notation!! I clicked on United States and Minnesota and tried three of my ancestral surnames and found no listings. Researchers have to know that the New Ulm Journal (as an example of an German newspaper published in the 1870s and 1880s) did not follow an information format like those we see today. All the news ran 'together with reports of deaths, house fires, storms, births, school news, and other events in the surrounding area all on the same page without any headlines separating one item from the other. I remember finding a report of some drunken rowdies who were arrested after having a fist fight and creating a general ruckus that was described in some detail -- I found it quite funny. That was the paragraph just above the report of my great grandfather's death. I had to scan the whole page column by column to find the death report. All I could do was take a blank sheet of paper and move it down line by line looking for my great grandfather's name .... or the name of any other relative. There was no report about services pending in the death notice. That was in a later edition . It was just a item telling about a funeral and burial at St. Geoge without the usual obituary information about place of birth, etc. of the deceased. It may have mentioned some of the people who attended. I believe there was an English newspaper published at the same time in New Ulm and that may have been true for most places that had a large enough German population to support a German newspaper. Karen