This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------88CEE78F42254249B2891833 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thought this will be ofd interest to some on our Madison Co. list Roland Bauer on the bluff in beautiful Collinsville --------------88CEE78F42254249B2891833 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: StLouis-MO-L-request@rootsweb.com Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by postal.accessus.net (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA84946 for <rrbauer@accessus.net>; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 09:33:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA10281; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 07:30:36 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 07:30:36 -0700 (PDT) From: kimbuc@juno.com Old-To: StLouis-MO-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 08:59:10 -0500 Subject: Re: Obituaries Message-ID: <19990815.092942.-68103.0.kimbuc@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,3-4,9-10,12-15,17-18,20,22-23,30-31,34-35,43-44,49-50,53-54,56-59 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 Resent-Message-ID: <WsskGC.A.cgC.M8st3@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: StLouis-MO-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: StLouis-MO-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <StLouis-MO-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/5442 X-Loop: StLouis-MO-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: StLouis-MO-L-request@rootsweb.com Sharon, I am sure you will be receiving several notes relating to your pile of obits. A few months back there was a heavy discussion relating to publishing obits on the Internet. At the time one lady said she wouldn't post the names of the living persons. She forgot somewhere along the line that they were originally published in a newspaper and that the family paid for and provided the information to be included in the publication. At the time I was referred to as the crabby old f when I made a comment. As I see it you have several options: 1. Do nothing. 2. Copy all the surnames and have people contact you for a copy of the obit, which says you will have to provide the typing services. 3. Type out each obit and post it to the sites of interest. 4. Submit them to the Obituary Daily Times, or send the package to me and I will submit them to the Obituary Daily Times. 5. Paste them in a book and donate it to the local library or genealogy society. For those who will read this post and immediately will take a slam. Check out the WPA Files in the Belleville Public Library. The St. Clair Genealogy Society cuts each obit and attaches it to a 3 x 5 card which is then filed in a bank of file cabinets. These files include all the obits for the Belleville and East St. Louis newspapers. Maybe not all of them but a darn good pile, especially the most current. I am sure that todays obits will be in the files before the month is out. There is a UML obit file, I believe you can access it through Ancestory.com. This site will list entire current obits as well as some older ones. The above Obituary Daily Times is manned by a number of volunteers around the world who on a daily basis, submit the obit listings in their current newspapers and then will maintain the obits for potential look-ups. There are several individuals on this site who do this on a regular basis. I supply Belleville, IL; St. Louis Journals, Breese IL Journal, Jefferson City Newspapers, some Moniteau County Newspapers and the Osage County MO Unterrified Democrat. No I don't subscribe to all these papers just two of the them I receive the others by mail from collectors. I have submitted obits that go back 150 years to ones that were published this week. There are over 3 million obits available from around the world. Not many, but at lease it's a start. Most of these are current. There is a lady here in St. Louis that submits the Post-Dispatch listings each and every day. Then one can always go down to the Historical Society and checkout the surname search. I found several relatives through their obits which are in published books at the society. Please don't destroy this information get it to someone who will do something with it. Bill Buchholz Candidated for 2nd. VP St. Louis Genealogy Society, Setp 1999 --------------88CEE78F42254249B2891833--