Mr Ruck, I do believe you're magic. I am already doing on-line research as you suggest - it's more for interest (something to write in my discussion) but will definitely be included..Richard Ruck wrote:E.J., are you using family notices in the 'Births, Marriages and Deaths' bit of the paper rather than the more formal obituaries as carried by the broadsheets?
You could always do a bit of on-line research, e.g. do notices in, say, South Wales tend to be more 'flowery and gushing' than those in, perhaps, Newcastle?
Could be time-consuming, but might be revealing......
And yep, I'm using the obits at the back of the paper in the family notices bit. The ones in the broadsheets aren't what you might call 'revealing' in the way that I need.
