Hi Derek; many thanks for the info on newspapaer obits...I'm afraid my relatives were much too mundane to make it into the 'papers! Kindest Regards, Roy Penny, Australia. > ROY > > Bristol Papers > > The Bristol Observer, Western Daily Press > > Bristol Times and Mirror. are the ones that you are after. > > These are on film and are held at the Bristol Central Library. > > They are not on line and as Charani says they would only appear in the paper if paid for by relations or friends, that said if the person was a well known upstanding member of Bristol Society and various clubs then an article may well have been written in the local papers. > > Regards Derek > > From: "Charani" <familyhunter@family-hunter.co.uk> > To: <gloucester@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 8:17 AM > Subject: Re: [GLS] Newspapaer Obituaries > > > > ROY PENNY wrote: > >> Hi Folks; > >> could SKS let me know if there was a Bristol newspaper that > >> carried a listing of deaths locally during the period 1901/1905, and are > >> they available on any website? Would appreciate any help I can get! > > > > Are you sure there would have been any mention? Unless the person was > > of some note, an obit or death notice would only have been included if > > a member of the family had put one in the paper. It wasn't an > > automatic thing. > > > > -- > > Charani (UK) > > _____________________________________________ > > > > Browse the list archives at: > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GLOUCESTER/ > > > > Keyword search - any or all lists: > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLOUCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > _____________________________________________ > > Browse the list archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GLOUCESTER/ > > Keyword search - any or all lists: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLOUCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >