ProQuest Information and Learning announces ProQuest Obituaries (tentative title), offering access to obituaries and death notices from the full runs of major national newspapers dating back to 1851. ProQuest Obituaries enables users to easily find ancestors and historical figures, and to trace their family histories through a database of more than 10 million names.
ProQuest Obituaries will provide obituaries and death notices in image format from the complete runs of major national newspapers dating back to 1851, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Atlanta Constitution, The Boston Globe, and The Chicago Defender. No other product offers access to obituaries and death notices from the complete historical runs of these major national newspapers…
ProQuest Obituaries will launch in the summer of 2006. The first release of ProQuest Obituaries will focus on deep historical records, and will then grow to include over 150 current newspapers.
From the March 21, 2006 ProQuestNews Release.
