Hi Leslie, You have asked some very good questions! I don't know if there is a rock-solid rule as to whether the place listed in the obituary is the place of death or the home, but I think it is usually the place of the home. But then again, I don't know of any rule about this. When we post the names of people listed in the obituaries of the Tennessean, we encourage people to go to the Tennessean web site and copy-and-paste the desired obituary to their own disk, mail, word processing program (Note pad, word pad, etc.) If you or anyone needs directions on how to copy-and-paste, let me know and I will send them to you. Since I often don't have a hard copy of the Tennessean, unless I am at work, I don't have the printed obituary to send to people. Sometimes, though I do have it and will gladly forward it to the person requesting it. But like I said, I often don't have a hard copy of the paper. The entire obituary is posted on-line, just as it is seen in the newspaper, so copying it from the web site is usually the best way to go. Thanks for the great questions, Leslie. And, thanks for being part of the ROOTWALKER family. Sincerely, Stan Magnesen ROOTWALKER site/list coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In a message dated 2/16/01 7:39:07 AM Pacific Standard Time, Aug67@att.net writes: > Subj: Re: [ROOTWALKER] Obituaries from the Tennessean of Friday, February > 16, 2001. > Date: 2/16/01 7:39:07 AM Pacific Standard Time > From: Aug67@att.net (~~Leslie~~) > Reply-to: TN-ROOTWALKER-L@rootsweb.com > To: TN-ROOTWALKER-L@rootsweb.com > > Stan- Since I still have a lot of family members who live within > the area covered by these obit notices, I have a question. Are the > localities listed the place of death? -or- the place of residence? > Also, do you type and eMail obits to people? And/Or, do you happen > to send out copies via sMail if someone sends you a SASE? > > Thanks, > Leslie (Bridges) Kohler >

> When we post the names of people listed in the obituaries of the Tennessean, > we encourage people to go to the Tennessean web site and copy-and-paste . . . --------------- Thanks, Stan. I did not word my question as I had intended. I am looking for an obit that would have been in the paper roughly a year ago. I have searched to see if one that old is posted on their WebSite, to no avail. I may have to break down and use (oh, the horror) SnailMail. <Grin> Leslie (Bridges) Kohler

Leslie, The obits for last year are on the Tennessean site. I tried to figure out how to access them for all of last year and couldn't get it to work. Since I didn't have any names to search I gave up as I had other things to do that day.. The site does have an obit search engine. Try typing in your name that you think was from last year. You also might be able to get each month's obit by typing in January 2000, etc. and searching each month one by one. Jeanne also try a search on rootsweb by typing in the first and last name in their search engine, I found some obits for last year that way.