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Obituary Lookup Volunteers


       Welcome to Obituary Lookup Volunteers, an all-volunteer web site and mailing list dedicated to providing obituary lookups all over the world.  Volunteers from many locations are listed on our web pages.  If there is no volunteer for an area, requests can be sent to our mailing list.  Our web pages also contains links to newspapers, libraries, genealogical/historical societies, etc., where obituaries can be researched and/or requested. 

How to Request an Obituary Lookup

       Before requesting an obituary from a volunteer or the mailing list, please read Making a Request.  Check the List of Volunteers and if your location has a volunteer, for best results send your request directly to the volunteer rather than to the mailing list.  If there is no volunteer for your location, send your request to the Mailing List.  Because many people screen their e-mail, in your request's subject line include "OBIT REQUEST" followed by state and county (USA) or country (International).

       Your lookup request will be handled by a volunteer who receives many requests.  For that reason we ask that you be reasonable about the number of requests that you submit at any one time.

       If you are a beginner at genealogy or obituary research, Beginner Information and General Obit Info can help you get started.  Additional information available for researchers at all levels includes FAQs and Problems, Searching the Web, Other Obituary Links, Genealogy Links, and USA County Lookup.  Each state and country web page contains links for local resources.

Volunteering & Posting/Publishing Obituaries

       As we are an all-volunteer organization, please consider reciprocating and becoming a volunteer in your area.  You can tailor your volunteer listing to fit the time you have available.  There is more information about volunteering in Becoming a Volunteer.  By volunteering, you support a system that provides obituary lookups in distant locations for everyone, including yourself.

       When you've received the obituary you requested, please post or publish it on the Web.  Other researchers will benefit from the work you've done, and having obituaries publicly available gives other researchers investigating the same family a way to contact you.

 

Making a Request
LIST OF VOLUNTEERS
Mailing List
Searching the Web
USA County Lookup
 
Beginner Information
General Obit Info
FAQs and Problems
Becoming a Volunteer
Posting Obituaries
 
Other Obituary Links
Genealogy Links
 



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Family Tree Magazine Site of the Day
16 October 2000

To volunteer to do lookups in your area,
for questions about the mailing list,
for help with obit requests,
to report a broken link,
or for other comments or questions,
contact us.

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Last update 22 Sep 2010

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