Future

• Continued entry of 'obitnotes' from recent obituaries.
  
• Entries from Coffey County newspapers of the past, volunteers are needed.
  
• Coffey County-related entries submitted from researchers with obituaries/obitnotes from non-county newspapers.

Statistics

Details

Commas

No commas can be used with my spreadsheet data base.

Errors

Errors occur in obituaries. I try to choose the most consistently used (sur)name. Errors in dates have been noted, if possible.

(Mr.)

Occurs, almost always, when the obituary, death notice or news article only mention the person by first initial(s) and the phrase 'he died' or indicates that Mr. So-and-so died. Exceptions: When a given name is sexually vague to me, i.e. Hill Cola (Mr.).

(Mrs.)

Occurs, almost always, when the obituary, death notice or news article only mentions the deceased as a Mrs. So-and-so using either initials or spouse's given name, not hers.

Place Names
• Death--> name of town, no specifics, i.e. hospital, nursing home, etc.
  
• Cemetery--> name of town, township, area, community, whatever is given in the obituary.
  

Parent(s)/Spouse(s) Names
• Father--> If "--" is given as first name, obituary only mentioned maiden name of deceased female.
  
• Mother--> If "--" is given as surname, only first name was given.
  
• Spouse--> In some cases, wife/wives are only mentioned by their given name, no maiden name.
  

Notes

Sometimes I just can't resist an information tidbit that I think is an added research 'find'.

NEW FEATURE(in progress)
Date of Issue

I found it extremely useful to have the date of the newspaper that the obituary/death notice information came from. It saves me a lot of time, so I'm adding this column to the notes. For the ones I had already typed, I'm going back and retrieving the dates as my time allows. It's also helping me proof-read the newspapers for any announcements that I might have missed the first time through.




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