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Scotland, Newspaper Death Reports & Obituaries
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Search for your Scottish ancestors’ death report and obituary in these newspaper reports. Discover more about your relative’s life, while searching these publications you may be able to find out the date of their death and the name of their spouse or parents.
Each record includes a transcript and the original newspaper announcement. The amount of information listed varies, but the records usually include a combination of the following information about your ancestor:
Explore this collection of newspaper death reports and obituaries to unearth interesting or undiscovered stories about your ancestors’. Discover how the events were originally reported and reveal fascinating details about the world in which your ancestors lived.
Death reports and obituaries were paid announcements usually written by a family member and sent to the newspaper. It would have been a cost to the family to have a notice printed in a newspaper.
Periodicals included in this collection are the following:
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