I want to read an obituary without paying anything - totally FREE!?

Question

All the sites I've found require a fee or membership. I want to be able to just pull up the obit and read it without any money being involved whatsoever. Can this be done?

Answer 1

depends on where you are. the newspaper in the town.

some yes others no

Answer 2

You do not say where you are based so the first of the links I have given you is for Australia and the second is for the United States.

Hope they help

Good luck and good hunting

Answer 3

Possibly...........at your local library, but not likely from your home internet.

Answer 4

You don't say if you're looking for a particular obit, or just any obit.

Most Funeral homes, at least in our area, have web sites listing current deaths and obituaries.

Other than that your best bet is the library.

Answer 5

yes, through your local newspapers

Answer 6

Advice if you are just starting genealogy/ research...

ALL INFO IN THE WORLD is not on the internet.  Someone puts it there, (if it is there) which translates into time/effort, even if your tax dollars puts it there.  Or a volunteer network, such as www.usgenweb.com, which is county based.. but each site has as much info as the site owner chooses to make available. We have a team here, who finds information for others, all day long.

If you want info, you have to be willing to put some effort into it. Sometimes, that WILL mean fees.

If you had taken the time to make your question explicit.. the name of the person, the approximate date and place (we don't even know what COUNTRY you need info from).. the odds are that someone here might have handed you that obit, in less than an hour. If not the obit itself, the name of the newspaper in the area, the library or something.  This I guarantee you.. people here are constantly amazed at what help they can get.

To your question.. no. Do not expect that there is any one site, which will find all your information for free, and all wrapped up in one location.

I am sorry if you are offended by my honesty. Your question was more about free free free and nothing else. And that is a defeating way to start research.

Answer 7

When asking a question, please say at least where you are, in a general sense, at least what country, so we know how to help.

You may be able to go to the archives, you may be able to search through your local library or you may be able to find an obit on line, maybe even free... but without a more detailed question, all answers will be maybes.

Answer 8

Sure.

Drive to the library, request the microfilm, chunk it into the reader and read away.

Some obits in the USA are on legacy.com or obitcentral.com; the newspaper that carried it may link to one or the other.  Or, it may be in the newspaper's web site. Newspapers keep their archives for 7, 30, 90 or 365 days; each one makes its own policy.

The ones in Preble County, Ohio are on the library web treasure chest.

You can ask for an obit look up via a county level genealogy board. If you get one, though, you are morally obligated to look one up in your county to pay the favor back. Some people are conscious of moral obligations; some are not. We call the second type "leaches".

Answer 9

Go to the library and pull the film. The convenience of reading them at home is $2-9 per obit, depending on the site

Answer 10

If you know what newspaper it is from, you could search their archives....   But, this question is a little wierd.

Answer 11

Yes, but from home, if the obit is older, the paper wants $$.  Try from the library.