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You can look at older Terre Haute Tribune-Star obituaries going back I'm
guessing 5-6 years by going to
http://library.tribstar.com
This "library" as they call it, is actually an archive of newspaper stories
and obituaries, runs maybe a week behind. And sometimes you just can't get
it to work, as they have it down for backups, but it's not obvious to the
user. Just keep trying periodically. The obituaries are from Terre Haute
and nearby counties.
When the "library" loads, it gives you search boxes with a drop down menu
choice of Editorial Stories or Obituaries. Choose Obituaries and plug in
the name you want. Sometimes you have to plow through the results to find
the name you wanted, but it's there. However, if I put in David Smith, and
one deceased person on the page has a first name of David and someone else
has the last name of Smith, it will find those too, rather than only "David
Smith". You just get more than you bargained for, but you can usually find
the obit if it's in the time frame the Tribune-Star's "library" covers.
Editorial stories are ANY kind of story they choose to save in their
"library". Often you will come across Associated Press stories that have
nothing to do with Terre Haute. But, for example, if the person you are
searching for was killed in a car accident that was reported in the paper,
the story may be in this "library" archive, separately from the person's
obituary, as long as it happened with the last few years.
For current stories and obituaries, use their regular website, www.tribstar.com
Don't forget the Vigo County Public library's website, www.vigo.lib.in.us
which offers the Wabash Valley Obituary Index, compiled by the library. It
is an index to the FIRST time an obituary appeared in a Terre Haute
newspaper. There could be more obits in subsequent days, but at least you
can find one of them this way. It is NOT a date of death index, but it can
certainly narrow it down for you. The index covers 1903-1966 in two
groupings, and tells you what newspaper and page to go to to find an obit on
the newspaper microfilms. The library also has alphabetic microfilms of
obituaries for ranges of years 1967 on. Several years worth of obits are
arranged alphabetically, microfilmed, and then filed at the library for
viewing. If you don't know exactly when someone died, then when you visit
the library, you would just start going through the microfilms looking for
the name, since you would have previously checked the index and determined
they were not in the entries up through 1966. So much easier than having to
look through years and years of full newspapers. And sometimes in groupings
of the same name, you find more than one relative you are looking for, or
someone that you had not realized was related.
Here's the point and click method in case I typed something wrong before:
go to www.rootsweb.com
Scroll down the page to a section called Mailing Lists and click on Index
Scroll down the index to Other and click on Obits
Click on Obit Look-Ups and everything you need is right there!
Hope this helps,
Sharon
There is an Obits Look-Up Web Page that describes the list and gives
instructions for posting to the list at:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~obit/
The list is made up of volunteers throughout the U.S. who will obtain an obit
for you. There are specific instructions for the proper posting of a request.
To subscribe to the LIST version, send an email to:
OBITS-LOOKUPS-L-request(a)rootsweb.com with the word Subscribe in both the
subject and the body. To subscribe to DIGEST version, send it to
OBITS-LOOKUPS-D-request(a)rootsweb.com
Sharon
Hi Kathleen - your message got me real interested. I'd love to know what
you find out about this drug store. My ggrandfather Hardy W. BURNS was a
druggist in Terre Haute (possibly the first), but I've never known the names
of any early drug stores to pursue. If you need me to help out on research,
I'll be happy to work with you. I'm in Oregon, but I do OK with IN research
through email and snail-mail.
Nancy
From: Kathleen Dewey <kdewey(a)sbceo.org>
To: INVIGO-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [InVigo] Terre haute info
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:40:58 -0800
I've recently come across a family artifact from Terre Haute and hope
someone can fill in some info for me. The artifact is a wooden
candlestick and it is labeled on the bottom as being purchased for .10
by Linnie LeForge, a student at Wiley High School, at the opening of
Murphy's Drug Store. Linnie probably would have been in high school
about 1901-1905.
Does anybody know when Murphy's Drug Store opened? Where was it
located? Is there still a Wiley High School? Where was (is) it
located?
Thank you. Kathleen Dewey
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Hey Cuz,
If I'm not mistaken, Digest Mode is where you get a list of the postings to
this list as an attachment and you can pick and choose which ones you want to
read. I subscribe to Digest Mode on Obits Lookup List. That way, you don't
get an email everytime someone puts something on here; you get an attachment
with groups of postings.
Cuzin Sharon
This Alfred Cooper is the son of Martin Cooper of Sumner County,
Tennessee...he was married to Anna Flowers.....Do these names ring a
bell...Alfred brought his family to Terre Haute sometime after 1900.....
Thanks
Deb Cooper