Anybody researching Maryland email the library

[Bitwit1234]

If you should happen to want the obit of a relative who passed away in Maryland in recent years, and you know the date of the death, the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore has some wonderful librarians. They will research the death date and email you a copy of the obit. You might check in other states and see if the librarians are as nice and will do the same thing. The email address.

[e-mail] they also look up names in directories. There is a different email for that, which I don't know but if you email the librarian I am sure they will send it back.

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. Screw recent years....

Who in Maryland will look up an obit for some in Lonaconing in 1932?? NOBODY is working in Western Maryland.

Of all the places to move to from Wisconsin, this woman moved to bumfuckville, and there are no volunteers there!

Thanks for the tip. I have one or two I might be able to get this way.

[Bitwit1234]

2. It is worth a shot to ask because

some times they can find obits that far back. If you have the exact date it is easier. Maryland also has a death index on line. If you find the person you are looking for you can order the death certificate. It cost 12.00 for a photocopy of the death certificate, but if you are looking for the parents most of the certificates have that.

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. I've already done that.

But I assumed that if it was not on the database, then they had no record of the death. Never ASSUME anything.

I took a long shot and requested it anyway, and received it (after searching for this woman for 9 years) but she was not in the database!

This obit service would definitely save me some time in the summer if I make it east. I'd rather not spend a bunch of time in MD if I can concentrate most of my time in PA and NY.

Thanks for the tip!
fsc :hi:

[Bitwit1234]

4. Have you tried the Maryland online death index just for starters

For one period of Baltimore and Baltimore County they have a search engine. You can type in the name/surname and find out if there is a death certificate. The rest of the names are hard to search because you have to go thru page after page. But it is worth the effort if you can't visit Maryland and would like the death certificate. There is a 12 dollar charge, but mostly all Maryland death certificates give Mother and in some cases maiden name. Father, place at time of death, cause, where buried and undertaker. Really, worth the while as I said, if you find someone.

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. YES!

I just said that.

I'm just saying to keep in mind that not everyone is listed in the index. The woman I eventually found did not appear in their stupid index, leading me to think that she was not there, when she actually was.

[Bitwit1234]

6. That happened to me and I emailed the archives

they told me IF I had a 5 year period they would do a research for me. Because sometimes, and I don't understand this, a death certificate was not issued but they have them listed. Well the price, which I forget was more than I wanted to pay, and then the person not be there.

But if you have the money and want them to check 5, 10 years they will. I used to send away for the SS5, if I thought the name was my relative, but after the raised the price from 7 to 27 dollars it was too costly, especially when I struck out twice, I wouldn't pay 27 dollars.