I am looking for an obit for Frances ROSSA who died in Decemeber 1969 in Detroit. Is there an index for the Detroit newspapers, since I don't have a specific date? Elise in WA ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
The Detroit papers have not been indexed at all. I am assuming you checked the Social Sec. death index? Karen Check out some of our web pages: * http://www.wwnet.net/~krugman1 (Main home page) * http://www.miprofgenie.com * http://www.nebulacomputers.com (Our son's page!) * Are you a Boomershine descendant? Vol. 2 is now available! Email me for details! Karen Krugman, P.O. Box 577, Birmingham, MI 48012 -----Original Message----- From: Elise Urbaniak [mailto:teamu@juno.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 3:05 PM To: MIGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MIGEN] Obit index for Detroit newspaper? I am looking for an obit for Frances ROSSA who died in Decemeber 1969 in Detroit. Is there an index for the Detroit newspapers, since I don't have a specific date? Elise in WA ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
The index for the Detroit News starts in 1974 and it will only show the name if there was an actual obit, not for a death notice, which is much more common in these papers. At least that has been my experience. If he died in Detroit, I can look him up in the Detroit death index. Ancestry has Michigan Deaths, 1971-96 so he just misses this one. If anyone here knows where I can access Michigan or Wayne County death indexes for other years (besides the Ancestry above and 1920-1988 Detroit death index at Burton), I would really like to have access to that resource. I can also search the entire month of December 1969 and a week into January if I don't find a death date on him. It just takes longer, especially if he is not in one paper and I have to search two, so it could take a couple weeks, because I only go to the library once a week to find him once I start. Thanks, Renee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elise Urbaniak" <teamu@juno.com> To: <MIGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 3:05 PM Subject: [MIGEN] Obit index for Detroit newspaper? I am looking for an obit for Frances ROSSA who died in Decemeber 1969 in Detroit. Is there an index for the Detroit newspapers, since I don't have a specific date? Elise in WA ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!