In a message dated 8/24/2007 4:57:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Re the second question - if you have a membership to the Boston Public Library, you can look up old copies of the Boston Globe online, through 1924 I think. Searching for a name doesn't always work, so it helps to have a date of death. I search the collection by date and the word "deaths" and the obituary pages show up (among others). You can save the images as PDF files. If you are a MA resident, you can obtain a library card for free. I use my brother's since I am out of state. Thank you for the information. I had given it a try using a surname with no results a while back. I went back last night and tried searching "deaths" but still no luck. I'll keep trying. Thanks, Cheryl ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Cheryl, I wasn't particularly successful either looking in the Boston Public Library website for the first person (John Hynes) my grandfather bought a plot for at New Calvary Cemetery. I didn't have a death date, just a year. Susan Daily used the date my grandfather bought the plot as the starting point and found the obituary about a week later. You might want to give it a try. Sue Richart On 8/25/07, wrote: > > > > > Re the second question - if you have a membership to the Boston Public > Library, you can look up old copies of the Boston Globe online, > through 1924 I think. Searching for a name doesn't always work, so it > helps to have a date of death. I search the collection by date and the > word "deaths" and the obituary pages show up (among others). You can > save the images as PDF files. If you are a MA resident, you can obtain > a library card for free. I use my brother's since I am out of state. > > > > > Thank you for the information. I had given it a try using a surname with > no > results a while back. I went back last night and tried > searching "deaths" > but still no luck. I'll keep trying. > Thanks, > Cheryl > > > >

Cheryl, Another hint, which is what I think I used for Sue, was to start with the Page 1 of the Boston Globe, and then you can view the whole page, and then do a Next Page link (different from "next result" link). So you just kind of glance at the whole page to see if you can spot a listing of deaths, and then when you find it, zoom in. This doesn't help so much with finding an obituary or funeral notice, but at least when you first find the death listing, then you can scan the same newspaper more closely (that date, and the next few days). I had some relatives who died in Cambridge not listed at all in the Deaths, so that can happen too. Susan On 8/25/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > In a message dated 8/24/2007 4:57:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Re the second question - if you have a membership to the Boston Public > Library, you can look up old copies of the Boston Globe online, > through 1924 I think. Searching for a name doesn't always work, so it > helps to have a date of death. I search the collection by date and the > word "deaths" and the obituary pages show up (among others). You can > save the images as PDF files. If you are a MA resident, you can obtain > a library card for free. I use my brother's since I am out of state. > > > > > Thank you for the information. I had given it a try using a surname with no > results a while back. I went back last night and tried searching "deaths" > but still no luck. I'll keep trying. > Thanks, > Cheryl > >