LOCAL OBITUARIES

Local Obituaries

Labels

I just completed adding a label to each post.  The "label" is a family name or a short description of the post (which is often hard to do).  Anyway, the list of labels might be helpful to some of you in your searches.  By the way, as I was doing this I discovered that I had duplicated a few posts - so don't be surprised if you find the same post twice.  I just made that mistake a few times (I think less than five).  Sorry about that.

LOCAL OBITUARIES

Local Obituaries

 

LOCAL OBITUARIES

LOCAL OBITUARIES

LOCAL OBITUARIES

LOCAL OBITUARIES 

LOCAL OBITUARIES

Local obituaries

            Most of you know how to find older obituaries from the Hartford newspaper(s) using online searches and I suspect that many of you know that the Daviess County Library (DCPL) has an online database of obituaries starting with deaths in 1842.  You can do your own searches fairly easy on the DCPL site and I encourage you to do so. I’ll give you the link at the end of this post.

            Interestingly, their database is broken into three groupings: 1842-1919; 1920-1989; and 1990 to present.  The information available in each is slightly different and is described as: 1842-1919 Detailed abstracts; 1920-1989 Brief abstracts; and 1990-Present Detailed abstracts.  You will understand that better when you start digging.

            Of course the data is not just for Ohio County residents – it covers several counties in the Owensboro area. So keep that in mind when you are searching.

            I have done some digging for you in the first category (1842-1919) by limiting my search for all data from Ohio County (not using any surname) and I got about 30 hits.  I will post all of these for you.

          The following is an example of one of those hits and in the example below I have circled (1) the name of the deceased, (2) the date of death, (3) cause of death, and (4) date & source of the info – which happens to be the Hartford News.  So, although we would prefer more info, this is a lot here and it might help anyone searching the Cummins' line.  One way to read the actual obit would be to go to the Ohio County library and read the actual newspaper (probably on micro-film, but I’m not positive of that).  Note that some of these “abstracts” have less information than my example because some came from very brief mentions of a death instead of a more formal obit, and some have a bit more info – it’s just hit or miss, but if you haven’t searched this site you should. 

EXAMPLE:

Here is a portion of what I found (various names; only filtered by "Ohio County") – too many for one post:

And here is a link to the site:  http://obits.dcplibrary.org/

Improvements to Blog

      You might have noticed that there are three new "features" now showing on my blog. One is simply a counter that shows the number of times people have actually looked at a blog page (amazingly they call this "pageviews").  The number represents the total for all-time. It doesn't have much meaning but it is somewhat interesting.  If I were selling advertising it might be important but I have no interest in advertising.

      The second feature is a search engine and it is located right underneath the Pageview counter.  As far as I know this will search for keywords on the blog (at  least that is my intention).  I suggest you just keep it simple and try your family names one at a time or other key words.  The search engine is provided by Google and should work fine but I have not experimented with it.  Let me know if you encounter any problems.

      The third feature is called "Labels" and is also a search function of sorts.  The purpose of this feature is to help you find a subject, family, or person on the blog.  I am in the process of "tagging" each of my 800+ posts with a Label; 99% of the time it is just one word, but a few times I have used two or even three words.  The Labels are shown on the right side of the main page underneath "Links" with a number next to them; the number represents the number of different posts that contains that particular keyword or Label.  Be mindful that I am still in the process of attaching Labels to my posts and it will take a week or two to complete that task.  I am working backwards and right now I am only about 20% complete.  It is slow work.  

      Other than that everything is the same.  I might warn you that I will turn 81 next month so at some point I will have to stop doing this.  I'm hoping there will be someone willing to step up and take over when that time comes.  I am now in my eight year of posting and it has been fun.  I've learned as much as you and met some very nice people along the way.  Maybe the good Lord will let me do this another eight years but don't count on it.

Charles