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When looking for obituaries, the only tool at our disposal has historically been the newspaper. Even worse, when trying to find historic obituaries, all we could do is go to the library and try and track down some microfiche of the paper for the day that the obituary ran. So on any given day you could be looking through thousands of newspapers, trying to track down the single day that the obituary ran so that you could see the death record or obituary of the person that you are looking for. Sounds like a nightmare to me! By the way did I forget to mention that 50% of families do not place a death record or an obituary in the newspaper because of the extremely high cost of doing so? The odds of finding that historic obituary or death record just got cut in half; as if it wasn’t already difficult enough!
The newspapers in an effort to hang on as long as they can in the ever changing digital world have built extremely high barriers in the form of hundreds of dollars to getting our loved ones obituary into the records of history. The tributes.com solution allows these families, the 50% that had to unfortunately say ‘no thanks I can’t afford that’, the ability to go around the newspapers and place an obituary directly on the internet for pennies on the dollar. By doing so we have also created the ultimate research tool for those who are looking to to research historic deaths and obituaries. More information can be found on the site www.tributes.com but for a direct link to browse the 84 million death records and obituaries that we have compiled thus far click here:
http://www.tributes.com/browse/browse_obituaries
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