{"id":55375,"date":"2020-01-15T11:01:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T16:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=55375"},"modified":"2023-09-27T11:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T15:28:18","slug":"the-new-improved-genealogybank-obituaries-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/the-new-improved-genealogybank-obituaries-collection.html","title":{"rendered":"The New Improved GenealogyBank Obituaries Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/em><\/strong>: In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega describes how GenealogyBank has improved its extensive obituaries collection. Gena is a genealogist and author of the book \u201cFrom the Family Kitchen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Obituaries have for a long time been the newspaper article that genealogists turn to most. Before the advent of digitized newspaper websites with search engines, genealogists used actual newspapers \u2013 or their microfilmed copies \u2013 to find their ancestors\u2019 obituaries. But the search was long and tedious.<\/p>\n

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Fast forward to today, when digitized obituaries are easier than ever to find. One of the strengths of GenealogyBank is its extensive collection of more than 255 million obituaries from 11,000 newspapers, covering over 300 years.<\/p>\n

New, Improved Obituaries Collection<\/strong><\/p>\n

GenealogyBank used to have two obituaries collections: Historical Obits (full-page images from the historical newspapers) and Recent Obits (obituaries from 1977 to the present, not full-page images but instead transcribed obits). Now the two are combined into one, easy to use Obituaries Collection.<\/p>\n

First, millions of historical newspaper pages have been reprocessed to identify and isolate the obituaries, and then to tag the names, dates, and locations within them. These were then added to the transcribed obits collection. This makes it easier than ever to locate your ancestor\u2019s obituary among the millions of obituaries from newspapers past to present, all in one place, using one search page.<\/p>\n

How to Search Obituaries<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can search the Obituaries Collection in one of two ways. You can go straight to the collection by going to the GenealogyBank website, clicking on Collections at the top toolbar and selecting Obituaries in the drop-down menu.<\/p>\n

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This will take you to the Obituaries Collection search page to search by name, date range or date, keywords, city, state, or newspaper.<\/p>\n

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You can also view obituary results by conducting a search on the GenealogyBank homepage and then selecting the Obituaries collection at the top of your results list. For example, let\u2019s do a search on the surname Weaver.<\/p>\n

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The search results page shows all the records that GenealogyBank has for Weaver.\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

The top of the search results page separates the Weaver records by category, to show all the results that can be found for that search in GenealogyBank:<\/p>\n