Regarding Susanne's search for a 1940s obituary for a resident of Rochester/Waterford/Birmingham, I would also suggest a contact with the Pontiac Public Library in Pontiac, MI. The library has a complete collection of the Pontiac Press on fiche. Pontiac, the county seat, is located midway between Rochester and Waterford. Rochester and Waterford residents subscribed to the Pontiac Press in the 1940s (the newspaper is now called the Oakland Press). This daily newspaper specializes in northern Oakland County and has the largest circulation in the county, outside the two Detroit newspapers. In the 1940s many Troy and Bloomfield Hills residents had a Birmingham mailing address. Not knowing if your people lived within the city limits of Birmingham, or if they lived north of Birmingham with a Birmingham mailing address, they likely would have placed an obituary in the Pontiac Press if they lived north of the city of Birmingham, particularly if they wanted their Rochester friends to be informed of a death. If they lived in Birmingham itself, they may have placed an obituary in the daily newspaper that serviced southern Oakland County in the 1940s, the Royal Oak Tribune (the newspaper is now called the Tribune). The Royal Oak Tribune is on fiche at the Royal Oak Public Library. Because the Birmingham Eccentric was/is not a daily newspaper, it is likely that your people would have used either the daily Pontiac Press or the daily Royal Oak Tribune to promptly post a death notice/obituary so that friends could attend funeral services. It is not unusual, to this day, for there to be few death notices/obituaries in the Eccentric newspapers due to their twice-weekly publication. For complete, timely listings of obituaries and death notices today, Rochester residents rely on the Oakland Press, and Birmingham residents rely on the Oakland Press and/or the Tribune. Rochester and Birmingham residents post to the Eccentric when their loved one was quite involved in the community and/or had significant roots there. Coralyn ___________________________________ Are there any other suggestion where to find an obit for September 1940, for a person who had lived most of their adult lives in the Rochester area yet died in Waterford and wife was living in Birmingham at the time? His wife was listed as living in Birmingham, MI . . . Went to the Birmingham Public Library [Baldwin] . . . they had their newspaper for the time period. There were only a couple for each week, strange for a large community to have so few deaths. Susanne