Yes, I do agree that there is what everyone refers to as the little free obit listing that
tells very little other then name, maybe age and where the deceased is from that is
printed by the newspaper. An abstract of that would be fine as it is not much more then
that any way. But most then the more detailed obituary that appears with birth info,
survivors, oraginizations to which deceased belonged or general facts of interest about
them and funeral arrangements etc is written by family.
Mark Lozer
817 N. Fulton St.
Wauseon, OH 43567
lozer(a)fulton-net.com
Fulton County Ohio GenWeb Page Coordinator
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohfulton/
--- On Sun, 1/17/10, Holly Timm <htimm(a)comcast.net> wrote:
From: Holly Timm <htimm(a)comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [OHGENWEB] regarding posting obituaries
To: ohgen(a)rootsweb.com
Date: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 4:40 PM
If the family wishes, that has always been possible, but the base obituary
charge is generally as I described and is not as expensive.
-----Original Message-----
From: ohgen-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:ohgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
Behalf Of Sandra Quinn
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 10:55 AM
To: ohgen(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [OHGENWEB] regarding posting obituaries
Holly, I am not sure that is the case today here in Ohio. Most funeral
homes do publish the family members written obituary at a cost of 200
dollars base fee charged by the newspaper. I wrote my grandmothers who
died in July of this year for her funeral home who published at that
rate charged by the local paper.
Sandy
Holly Timm wrote:
Mark,
As someone who once had the job of obituary writer at a newspaper, along
with other writing tasks, generally the funeral home provides information
obtained by them from the family of the deceased. The newspaper then
writes
the obituary using the information but usually neither the funeral
home
nor
the family actually writes the obituary.
Holly
-----Original Message-----
From: ohgen-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:ohgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
Behalf Of Mark Lozer
Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 12:05 PM
To: ohgen(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [OHGENWEB] regarding posting obituaries
Hi Maggie,
Question, how does an obituary become the literary property of a
newspaper? Obituaires are written and prepared by the family of the
deceased as part of the funeral home package for which they are charged.
The funeral home takes care of submitting the prepared obituary to all the
newspaper the family request it to appear in and they are charged for each
according to the rates of the various newpapers. I understand that if
your
source of the obituary is a specific newspaper that they should be
given
credit but do not understand why there should be an issue of the newspaper
having to give permission to post a copy. These days many funeral homes
also have websights and post obituaries there as well. Funeral homes also
make up bookmarks and other items which they print the obituaries on It
seems to me that with so many places obituaries are found these days that
it
would be hard for anyone entity to take any legal action for posting
an
obituary transcription. I would think if permission is needed, that it
should come from the surviving family member(s) that prepared the
obituary
since they are the ones that composed and paid for its publishing,
Many
people write their own obituaries and I suppose in that case control of
it's
use would pass to the survivor as well. Now if your are talking
about
posting an actual scan of a specifc newspaper, I could understand that
there
may be a requirement to get permission from the newspaper to do that.
Then also there may have been a time period in the past from the 1930's
to
present where an obituary was actually written by someone on the
newspaper
staff, but in todays world this is rarely the case with the exception of a
special feature the you see where a newspaper publishes it's own special
obituary of an prominent individual.
Just some thoughts. I no legal expert but it just seems to me that we are
giving newspapers to much control here. I get many requests directly from
family members of the deseased to post obituaries and I think they should
have every right to grant permission to do so without being concerned with
whether it is ok with a newspaper or in many cases the several newspapers
that carried the obituary.
Mark Lozer
817 N. Fulton St.
Wauseon, OH 43567
lozer(a)fulton-net.com
Fulton County Ohio GenWeb Page Coordinator
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohfulton/
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