How can I look up obituaries for free?
USA Answer: When someone famous dies, there will be obituaries all over the Internet. Looking for an ordinary person on the other hand, is searching for a needle in a haystack. It is like fly fishing, too; you have to cast a number of times and you still may not find anything. It may be in http://www.obitcentral.com/ http://www.legacy.com/NS/ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi The newspaper that ran it may have it in their archives. Usually they keep it for 7, 30 or 90 days, though. If the person died in Preble County, Ohio, prior to 1950, the county library web site may have it. By extension, the county library site for the county in question should be one of the “pools” you cast into. So should the US Gen Web site for the county, the Ancestry query board for the county and the GenForum board for the
