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Finding Obituary from British Newspaper Archive?
The BNA has the death notice in the Dundee Courier on Tuesday 13 June 1944. It's rather brief:
ORMOND. At Dundee, on June 11, 1944, John Barclay Ormond, of 115 West High St., Forfar, husband of ...
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Determine family from obituary
Personally I would parse it as follows:
Deeply missed by their seven children (numbered 1-7) and their spouses, 26 grandchildren (letters a-z) and their spouses, and 7 great-grandchildren (letters A-G)...
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Determine family from obituary
This answer is intended to complement the previous answer and to be more useful to the general reader. Instead of addressing this specific example (since the names have all been changed, none of the ...
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Associating an obituary with a person on Ancestry
Been tracking genealogy for many many years (via TMG), and I'm new to using Ancestry.com. After reading posts like this and doing a little testing, I've decided to handle obits two ways. First, I'll ...
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Seeking Obituaries for Midland, Texas from 1970s and before?
The primary newspaper for Midland, Texas, is the Midland Reporter-Telegram (found by searching for "newspaper" on the "Midland, Texas" wikipedia page).
Google "midland reporter telegram archives" and ...
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