How do I obtain obituaries from English or Italian language newspapers in the U.S.?
First and easiest. Search family scrapbooks and memento collections for the newspaper clippings that may have been saved by someone in your family. The prayer or mass card or folder from the individual’s funeral may supply a type of obituary information. Funeral homes may maintain a file of obituaries from the local newspapers of whatever time period and may be very nice about supplying these. Armed with the date of death and location, look up what newspapers were published in the area. Include both the big city papers, local suburban or town weeklies and foreign language (in this case, Italian) newspapers of the area. Usually, there are no indices but often the obituary page is in the same part of each paper. “The smaller the paper, the more informative the obituary” is the pattern. Local news chat items may tell who attended the funeral. These newspaper files are often on microfilm at the library in the area of the death and microfilm can be borrowed through your local library on int
