Obit tells alot about the person who died, a notive, just sayd Joe Smith died on 1/1/1912, and some of them tell the name of the city where he lived or died Here is one from IN, in the indianapolis Star INDIANA DEATHS BERNE Mrs. mary Kelly Sipe,93 widow of Harvey Sipe OBITUARIES Mrs. Appleget Services for Mrs. Elfiva J. Barker Appleget 83, Lebanon, formorley of Indianpolis, will be held at 3 p.m. sunday in Myers Mortuary where friedns may call.She died Thursday at St Vincents Hospital Mrs Appleget and her late husband, Elmer Appleget owned and operated the Appleget Grocery her for more than 20 yrsSurvivious include one daughter Mrs. Marjorie Edwards. -- Teddy List Mom for the Grayson Co Ky List, Brady, Vertrees, Ford, Fulkerson,and Commonwealth http://www.kygenweb.net/pd-res/deford.html -------------- Original message -------------- > In a message dated 11/15/2004 8:38:19 PM Central Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > Most of the older newspapers had very few obituaries and the ones list > were mostly death notices. > I hate sounding like a true novice but what is the difference between an obit > and a death notice? > Pam > > > ==== KYJEFFER Mailing List ==== > Need to know where to look for all the records? Check out this page on the > Jefferson KyGenWeb site: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyjeffer/holdings/holdings.html > > ============================== > New! OneWorldTree. Building Trees. Connecting Families. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13970/rd.ashx >