Are the obituaries available online?
Before 1987: You will need to know the date of the person’s death so that it can be located on microfilm. There is no index for obituaries before 1987. After 1987: From December 1987 to March 1998, the archives contain the death list from the front page of the newspaper, but not the full obituaries. A search for a name in those years can give you the date the obituary appeared, but not the obituary itself. After March 1998, the full obituaries are available from the archives. Please note that obituaries are not archived individually; a successful search for one name will retrieve a file containing all of the obituaries published that day.