Hi Deirdre, For questions such as yours, you may want to contact the Queens Borough Public Library's unit that handles Obituary and Death Notice US Mail Requests: Long Island Division Queens Borough Public Library 89-11 Merrick Boulevard New York (Jamaica P.O.), NY 11432 Tel: 718/990-0770 Fax: 718/???-???? eMail: ??????? The following is a very elongated link, so make sure you copy and paste the entire link into your browser as it takes you to a page that describes the procedure to obtain an "Obituary and Death Notice US Mail Requests": http://www.queenslibrary.org/index.aspx?page_nm=CEL+Divisions&branch_id=CEL& pid=715 If the above URL breaks up, try: http://tinyurl.com/yjsfk3z Home page: http://www.queenslibrary.org/ I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. Happy Shavuot*, Walter Greenspan Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY * The 2-day Jewish Biblical Festival of Shavuot (shuh-VOO-oht) commemorates the day when G-d gave the Jewish people the Torah (the Five Books of Moses) following Moses' descent from Mount Sinai in 1310 BCE, begins 7 weeks from the second Seder of the Jewish Biblical Festival of Pesach (Passover), which this year will be at sundown on Tuesday, May 18 on the civil calendar. </HTML>