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seaglass

(8,179 posts)
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 11:15 AM Oct 2019

Researching obits - have you run across this and what were your results?

Twice now I have run across obits which ask another paper to run them.

For ex. An obit in the Boston Globe and the last line states "Kentucky papers please copy"

Another one makes the same request for Nova Scotia papers.

I do know the link between the deceased and the NS papers but not the link between the deceased and the KY papers (although that will be an interesting path to follow).

My question is, does anyone know how this worked in practice? Did the requested papers print a notice as requested? Was it free back then? Has anyone had luck finding a notice in the requested paper?

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Researching obits - have you run across this and what were your results? (Original Post) seaglass Oct 2019 OP
I've run across this in obituaries/death notices... Spider Jerusalem Oct 2019 #1
 

Spider Jerusalem

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1. I've run across this in obituaries/death notices...
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 03:09 AM
Oct 2019

usually without much luck in finding it in the newspapers in the respective "please copy" locations.

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