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From: "Giliane Bader-Wechseler" <>
Subject: Re: [A-L] Obituaries
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:46:56 -0500
In-Reply-To: <8CA34A8415B41B6-930-8B0C@webmail-md19.sysops.aol.com>


Even if there were obituaries published in Alsace-Lorraine newspapers, I
think they may not have been archived. We may want to ask some of the
newspapers there if this has been done...


- Giliane

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I have received obituaries of my great great grandmother and her husband
from the German archives when researching my German ancestry. They were from
the late 1800's. I would imagine there must have been newspapers in
Alsace-Lorraine as well.
Maria







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On Monday 14 January 2008 11:06:59 am wrote:
> This may be a lame question, but one that I must ask.
>
> Are / were obituaries printed in the newspapers and are they available
> anywhere?
>
> I know they are a tremendous resource, and am hoping that I can find some
> from the 1800's to the present.
>
> Brab

Hi, Barb, I never saw an answer to your question. You may be asking about
obituaries printed in Alsatian newspapers, and about that I have no info.
Some biographical information is being collected and presented by various
genealogical societies, but whether they are finding, indexing and
publishing
obits in particular, I do not know.

But obits are an untapped source for many of our immigrants and their
children. They often subscribed to German language newspapers, and church
magazines which would have printed obits, which would be much more complete,

accurate and detailed than those printed in the English language newspapers
of the time. It is worthwhile to do some research and find out what
newspapers might have been read by your ancestors -- likely places for their

descendants to have places obits and memorials. The local genealogical and
historical societies in the localities where your ancestors lived will know
this information.

For more background on this subject, see:

http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/newspapers.html -- this one needs some

more updated info -- anyone have anything to add to this?

http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/death-records-obituaries-biographies.h
tml

As always, please report any bad / updated links you find. And I'm always
looking for more helpful links. They are supplied by you, the researchers.

Valorie
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