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Find their obituary in history.
Search 20 million+ public-domain US newspaper pages from 1690 to 1963, courtesy of the Library of Congress. When you find someone, you can turn what you learn into a modern tribute page in minutes.
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Full names work best. Include a state or year range if you know them.
Where this data comes from
- Library of Congress — Chronicling America. A free, public-domain archive of ~20 million US newspaper pages from 1690 to 1963, digitised in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- OCR search. We search the full text of every page, so you'll find obituaries and death notices even when they're buried deep on page 8.
- Coming soon. British Newspaper Archive metadata, Trove (Australia) and Papers Past (New Zealand).