The new URL for researching surnames in obits is
http://www.obitcentral.com
This page is the Obituary Archive Search Engine which allows keyword
searches through over 290,000 fulltext obituaries and access other various
obituary search engines by locale. There's also a link to the awesome
Legacy Obitfinder that searches through over 1000 online newspapers.
This page is a sister page to the Obituary Links Page at
http://www.geocities.com/cribbswh/obit/ which has hundreds of links to
obituaries, marriage, birth, and death notices, cemetery inscriptions, and
mortality schedule, arranged by state and county and Canadian province.
Bill