I don't want to sound negative, but I have not found very many obituaries either. I have found some death notices though. Lots of people couldn't afford an obituary. Barbara On Jan 29, 2008 1:11 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: mikef333 > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.harlan/14646.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > I have a couple ancestors who died in Harlan Co in the mid 1920s and have > found no death certificates for them either. I think the most likely > explanation for these situations is one where there was no attending > physician, and also the family took care of the burials themselves without a > funeral home. Thus without either a doctor or funeral home to generate a > death certificate, none was generated. > > As to obituaries, the Harlan Enterprise is extant on microfilm at the UK > libraries for those years, and you can order the microfilms via interlibrary > loan according to their newspaper website which can be found here: > > http://lib.uky.edu/repro/ > > So there likely are not any death certs to be found, and your last likely > source is that newspaper. > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you > would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link > above and respond on the board. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >