To Ashley, etc.-- why deal with Milwaukee's newspaper publishers at all?? ------------------------------- http://www.mpl.org/files/great/great.cfm keyword: death notice ----> <<Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (via web from NewsBank) This NewsBank web subscription product provides full-text coverage of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and is the best online source for researching local articles from 1990 to the present. Death Notices since June 16, 1995 are included. Here is the link for a tipsheet for using Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel via web (from NewsBank)...... Library subscription. Only available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries. >> for more info, the Milwaukee Public Library staff tells me to use the following inquiry form at: http://www.mpl.org/Files/Ask/index.htm or call the Milwaukee Public Library via their Ready Reference phone: 414-286-3011 or via their Humanities phone: 414-286-3061 My understanding is that Milwaukee Public Library staff gives high priority to info requests from card-carrying Milwaukee library patrons (this presumably includes YOU, Ashley), medium priority to other Wisconsin residents, and LOW priority to aliens (like me). I'm also told that MPL's Humanities Division has copies of many Milwaukee newspaper death notices and obits prior to June 16, 1995-- but apparently this stuff has all been collected by volunteers and is of uneven quality. The Humanities staff tells me that MPL is willing to send out duplicates of all the above as long as it is reimbursed for copying costs. .......John (in Chicago) _________________________________________________________ <<Subj: [WiMilwau] Journal online obits go back to 1997 Date: 7/18/01 10:59:53 PM Central Daylight Time From: grubisic@netwurx.net (Ashley Tiwara) Reply-to: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com To: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel actually has obituaries going back to 1997 in its online computer files but it seems to be a matter of chance which ones are there. If you do have an obit occurring in 1997 or 1998, it is worth trying to punch it in at the site...... Ashley>> _________________________________________________________