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=== Land and Property === | === Land and Property === | ||
=== Obituaries === | === Obituaries === | ||
* Must treat with Newspapers as well. | |||
Back to [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah#Obituaries|obits area]] of experimental page. | |||
*Must treat with Newspapers as well. | |||
Questions: if include, where: | |||
*Review what is at state, US levels. Do we need to add, embelish? Include major online resources (for recent and historical obits). | |||
*info may be inaccurate (family biases?) | |||
*written by funeral directors or newspapers editors who write from information given by the family | |||
*mention of war service, accomplishments; education; religion; names of surviving family, sometimes those who died before. | |||
*Popular since around 1870's. | |||
*Published in newspapers (at a cost), sometimes kept by funeral homes (helpful if not in a newspaper) (JS: my grandfather and great-grandfather being newspaper editors would say most people couldn't write so well so a favorable obit was written by newspaper editor from his interviews with the family; | |||
*Substitutes: Funeral home programs. | |||
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[JS: What if we sqoze bullet 3 & 4 into one line? Done<br> | |||
Should we add a bullet reminding people that recent obits can be found on-line on local newspaper websites? So straight forward but surprising how a death will inspire a young person to start geneo...yet they didn't think to save an obit and don't know the contact info for the relative who would have it! | |||
*How shall we word this? Use several, or a few and link to a US page?<br> | |||
I also wondered about whether there should be a bullet mentioning how local historical societies often have compilations of clipped obituries and/or good local newspaper collections on microfilm. Maybe the later isn't so applicable for Utah?] Does the line following the bullets accomplish this? | |||
=== Probate Records === | === Probate Records === | ||