[PW] Re: Death Notice -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

[Dana Dalrymple]

The following is indeed all that there is in the regular part of the
newspaper, which is full text on our Proquest subscription.  

You might try contacting King County Library System as well -
www.kcls.org - to see if they will look up the classifieds for you. 

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Dana Dalrymple
Reference Librarian
Spokane Public Library

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IRWIN Janet
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 9:23 AM
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Subject: [PW] Re: Death Notice -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

According to the database Americas Obituaries and Death Notices the PI
is one of the Washington papers included so I searched it. (This is a
subscription database that my library subscribes to.)

The information is minimal:

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA) - March 7, 2002
Deceased Name: RUSH 
RUSH, William H., 56, of Newcastle, Feb. 28.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA) 
Date: March 7, 2002
Edition: Final
Page: B6
Record Number: 0203070085

In using this database in the past, I found the information to have been
complete so am assuming this is the case above; from the "Product
Description":
AMERICA'S OBITUARIES & DEATH NOTICES 
 
What Is America's Obituaries & Death Notices? 

America's Obituaries & Death Notices is NewsBank's large and
comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices from
around the United States. Each obituary or death notice is indexed by
the name of the deceased person, to make searching easier and more
precise. In addition, the text of each obituary or death notice is
searchable, making it easy to find just what you're looking for using a
place of residence, occupation, names of family members, or other
personal information. 

I hope this helps you -- at least now you have date of the death notice.

Janet Irwin
Humanities
MULTNOMAH COUNTY LIBRARY
801 SW Tenth
Portland, OR  97205

email: janeti at multcolib.org
phone: 503.988.5123 ext. 24885


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[mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of
Lee Harrison
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 7:06 AM
To: list at project-wombat.org
Subject: [PW] Death Notice -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer


I'm hoping someone here can access the information I'm looking for or
point me in the right direction.  I'm seeking a copy of a death notice
for William H. Rush.  It would have appeared in the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer approximately March 2-4, 2002.  (Date of death was
February 28, 2002.)

I've checked the Seattle P-I website and the online death notices go
back to only 2003.  There's no provision for purchasing access to older
information.  (I should note that I could access an apparently recurring
feature that lists, on what seems to be a monthly basis, all deaths in
the area -- name, date, and place of death.  What I'm looking for is the
actual death notice/obituary.)  I wrote to the newspaper's librarian
asking if there was a way I could purchase this access offline and
received the following response;

The only way to find those [pre-2003 death notices] is to look through
issues of the newspapers on microfilm. Our newspaper is available for
browsing at the downtown branch of the Seattle Public Library. Since
this can be time-consuming we aren't able to do this ourselves.

Since I live on the East Coast, visiting the Seattle Public Library
isn't a realistic option, so I emailed the library and asked whether
they could provide me with the death notice.  (To be clear, I don't need
an actual copy of the notice, just its contents.)  I of course offered
to pay any required fees.

That was over a week ago and I haven't received a response, so I'm not
optimistic.  I've become (haven't we all?) so accustomed to being able
to access newspaper content from 100 years ago, that I can't believe
there's no practical way to access a death notice from 4 years ago.
This list is my last best hope.  Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.  (I don't know anyone in Seattle I can ask to just to the
library and look it up for me -- and, again, I can't believe that's the
only way to do this.)

Many thanks in advance for any advice.

Lee Harrison
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