Tina, I have done genealogy research in Evansville, Indiana records and found that the local library will make you a copy of an obit for a small fee. They must have an index as most other Indiana counties have. Did you check Social Security Death Index for a date? Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library: Reference Services - 0.6 miles W - 200 SE Martin Luther King J, Evansville, 47713 - (812) 428-8218 Marie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phyllis Garner" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:01 AM Subject: Re: [SHELTON] SHELTON Digest, Vol 1, Issue 18 > Tina below is located some places you might check with to see if > someone can search for the obit for you. I would volunteer to go to > the library (and can at sometime in the future) but right now I am > incapacitated with a badly sprained ankle on one leg and badly > bruised leg on the other as I took a fall this weekend and can not > drive at this point. If you do not have any luck with these places (I > am not sure how much they are willing to help) I will when I get > better go search the archives at the library just down the street and > see if the local paper mentioned his death. Let me know what > transpires please so I do not go and retrace what someone else has > done. Unless his family put the obit in the local paper I think we > are out of luck here but, you never know. Ok will watch for your > return message so I know what to do. > > Phyl in VA > > Browning Genealogy database online. > >>Can someone check on an obituary for me in VA? There may have been one in >>the Indiana papers, too. His parents lived in Evansville when Tommy died. >>Any help I can get would be appreciated. If anyone can get me an address >>on >>where I can send for hospital or obituary or ??? >> >>Tina Hall >>[email protected] > I > I'm looking for an article or an obituary older than 1990. What can I do? > Research at the main branches of the public libraries that purchase > and maintain copies of The Virginian-Pilot on microfiche and > microfilm. Archive dates vary from city to city as noted below. > > Chesapeake Central Library > Archives reach back to 1974. > 298 Cedar Road > (757)382-8300 > <http://www.chesapeake.va.us/services/depart/library/library.html>Chesapeake > Public Library website > > Norfolk Kirn Library - Main Library > 301 E. City Hall Avenue > (757)664-7323 > <http://www.npl.lib.va.us/>Norfolk Public Library website > > Portsmouth Main Library > 601 Court Street > (757)393-8501 > Pilot archives reach back to1957. > <http://portsmouth.va.us/ppl/html>Portsmouth Public Library website > > Virginia Beach Central Library > 4100 Virginia Beach Boulevard > (757)431-3000 > Pilot archives reach back to 1865. > <http://www.virginia-beach.va.us/services/library>Virginia<http://www.virginia-beach.va.us/services/library> > Beach Public Library website > > Norfolk State University Library > (757)823-2002 > <http://www.nsu.edu/library.html>NSU Library website > > Old Dominion University Library > (757)683-4154 > <http://www.lib.odu.edu/>ODU Library website > > Tidewater Community College > Virginia Beach Campus > (757)822-7150 > <http://www.tc.cc.va.us/library.html>TCC Library website > > Other Areas: > The Library of Virginia > 800 East Broad Street > Richmond, VA > (804)692-3500 > <http://www.lva.lib.va.us/>Library of Virginia website > > The Library of Congress > 101 Independence Ave. S.E. > Washington, D.C. 20540 > (202)707-5000 > <http://www.loc.gov>Library of Congress website > > > > > Phyllis Garner > Virginia Beach VA > Phyls Playhouse at Yahoo Groups > > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.4/477 - Release Date: 10/16/2006 > Shelton Y-DNA study: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~thall/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >