Around the area of Columbiana County, OH, the Funeral Homes always have written up or the Paper does, but they always have had a history of each person's life for their obituary including birthdates deathdates parents names, but depend on the paper. But it varies with the paper, I suppose. If you know the funeral home they're still in operations okay, but if not your back to square one, so obituaries are one of the places, the cemeteries vary with their help also! Take a chance! What do you have to loose?! Contacting them by mail is cheaper, but if your going that direction call first then stop by! Cathy Raber ----- Original Message ----- From: The Mell Family To: PA-OBITS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: 9/13/02 4:32:16 PM Subject: [PA~OBITS] Re: Contacting Cemeteries for Info Group: From your experience, what is the best way to contact cemeteries? In writing or by phone? I have never done this and want to make sure I get a good response.... and not someone who would be bothered by my request. Especially because I don't just want them to look up one person, but all with a given surname. (GILROY in Cathedral Cemetery, Scranton, PA) What do they usually do for you? Copy the funeral records ? Read them to you over the phone? And do you offer a donation? Thanks for your advice! -MJMell ----- Original Message ----- From: SPra100076@aol.com To: PA-OBITS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 9:14 AM Subject: Re: [PA~OBITS] Philadelphia Obit - STEWART, James Hunter Terry, If you cannot find the obituary I recommend contacting the cemetery. Usually they have the name of the funeral home. Most funeral homes keep records as they supply the information for the death certificate and I have found in my case they kept a copy of the obituary. Sandy in Mass ==== PA-OBITS Mailing List ==== Always send your replies back through the list. Other people may be looking for the same information and your answer will be stored in the archives for future researchers. ==== PA-OBITS Mailing List ==== The archives of this list are located at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/pa-obits or http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=pa-obits --- Cathy Raber --- pigeonrock@earthlink.net --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.