[Genealib] Re: Obituary look-up policy & stats

[Tom Vajdik]

The Windsor Public Library of Windsor Ontario, Canada also has a policy for obituary look-ups. 

Charges for photocopies from our local newspaper are $1.00 per exposure, with a minimum amount being $5.00. 

For a photocopy of an obituary notice, when the researcher knows the date of death is $5.00. 

Our library has just launched a database of obituaries occuring in The Windsor Star newspaper. So far, the database covers the years 1947-2006. So, it is quite easy for researchers with internet to send us requests. 

For requests for multiple look-ups, we will charge Research time. The charges for research time are $15.00 for 15 minutes of research. As a rule of thumb, we have estimated that it takes about 5 minutes to retrieve a death notice from the microfilms, and then photocopy it. 

If researchers do not know the date of death, then we canl do the research of trying to find the death notice for people not covered by the database. This is where the research time can get expensive, and there is no guarentee that we can find the notice (or that a notice was placed in the newspaper).



Tom Vajdik
    Genealogy and Local History Librarian
    Windsor Public Library
    850 Ouellette Ave.
    Windsor, Ont. 
    Canada
    tel: 519-255-6770 ext. 4434
    e-mail: tvajdik at windsorpubliclibrary.com