[Genealib] New Orleans Public Library Obituary Index now online

[Irene Wainwright]

The New Orleans Public Library's Louisiana Division is pleased to announce that its "Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index" is now available online.

The original Index, which references obituaries appearing in New Orleans newspapers, 1805-1972, and selected biographical references in a variety of published sources, is a massive card file of some 650,000 cards, most of which include multiple references.  The online version, a searchable database of the card index, is the result of a nearly 10-year-long collaboration between NOPL and The Historic New Orleans Collection (http://www.hnoc.org), which funded the project and produced the database and the web interface.  While names from about the first third of the alphabet have been searchable online for a number of years, the database is now complete.  Names can be searched from Aachler, Fred E. to Zyzik, Pauline Wyplor.  We are finally done.

To search the index (and find out more about the project), please link to http://neworleanspubliclibrary.org/obits/obits.htm.  (If you have the original version of the index linked or bookmarked, please note that the link has changed, since the completed index has moved to a new server.)

Feedback and questions welcome.

Irene Wainwright
Archivist, Louisiana Division/City Archives
New Orleans Public Library
219 Loyola Ave.
New Orleans, LA  70112
504.596.2610 | iwainwri at gno.lib.la.us<mailto:iwainwri at gno.lib.la.us>

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