Practical information about finding obituaries, understanding publication timelines, and setting up monitoring alerts. These guides help you navigate a fragmented landscape of publicly available obituary notices.
Understanding why confirming a death is difficult and what options are available when you need to find out.
Why name-only obituary searches often fail and what alternatives exist when you don't know where someone lived.
Realistic timelines for obituary publication and why repeated manual checking is often unreliable.
How email alerts work, the difference between basic and high-confidence alerts, and reducing false positives.
Why no single source covers all obituaries and how multi-source monitoring improves coverage.
If you need to track a specific name across multiple sources, monitoring is often more reliable than repeated searching.