Diane,   Thanks so much for your March 8, 2010 reply to my query of the same day regarding the Kilbeg family of Tuam, Co. Galway. Your reply included two Chicago death notices connected to people named Kilbeg one from Tuam. I will contact my friend, the Kilbeg descendant, regarding that much appreciated information   Your having provided death notices makes me wonder about death notices in Co. Galway. Michael Kilbeg the husband of Bridget  Mc Hugh was said by US family to have died in 1901 in Tuam. Since Bridget age 60 and son Thomas age 28 were listed in the 1911 census as living in rural Tuam, the townland of Toberjarlath, I assume that is where Michael died rather than in Tuam itself.   Any US death notices that I have seen of the non wealthy or non famous  prior to maybe  the 1950s have next to no information beyond the place the body would be waked with in most instances no explanation of how the person who held  the wake was related to the deceased. They mostly gave the time of the wake, said what time various sodality groups should show up en masse, the time of the church service naming the church and name of the cemetery.   I am assuming that a death notice from around 1900 in Tuam would also give very little genealogical information. But I also know that it is not smart to assume. So my questions to anyone on this mailing list not just you Diane are:  #1 did Tuam in 1901 have a newspaper?, #2 would a death notice for someone like Michael Kilbeg, probably a farmer without his own land or much money, even be in a newspaper and #3 if there was a notice would it usually have genealogical information?   Thanks to anyone on the list for help on any of these questions.   Mary Quirk-Thompson Milwaukee Wisconsin USA