Why Obituaries Became My Favourite Research Tool for Finding Recent Ancestors

As a young hobby genealogist, I used to get so frustrated that there were no good records to confirm more recent dates of death or find the names of younger relatives. Most countries have privacy laws that withhold exact record entries like census forms in order to protect the identities of living citizens.

So what do you do to find out more about the people who lived in the later half of the twentieth century? Enter: obituaries