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Friday, September 19, 2008

Finding obituaries

"If you search for the word “obituaries” you get them all, in order, going way back."
It's been an exciting several weeks at TheMorningSun.com.
The new design is up and running, and comments are mostly positive.
The main complaint: It's tougher to find past obituaries.
Under the old system, which was archived by day, it was possible to go into the archives, click on a particular day, and view the archived obits for that day. People living far and near would check in every few days to see.
Our new archiving system doesn't work that way - it's a searchable archive, rather than a day-to-day file.
Here's how to find obits in the new system: Simply search (in the seach window near the top of the page) for the word "obituaries." Rick Mills, the Sun's executive editor, figured this out and reports:
"If you search for the word “obituaries” you get them all, in order, going way back."
Thanks, Rick.
Pass the word.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You can also just put in the persons name and find it that way.

11:38 AM 

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