The Obituary Daily Times

If you are looking for an obituary, this site may be very helpful. Before you go to the Obituary Daily Times site, though, you should read this description of what the site can and cannot do for you and your genealogical research

The site is an index. When interested individuals or genealogical groups submit an item, the following information about a person is sent:

• Name
• Age
• Place of birth (if different from province, state or county of death)
• Place of death
• Abbreviated name of the newspaper containing the obituary
• Date of the issue containing the obituary
• The "tagname" of the person making the submission. For the Roots Group of the South Peace Historical Society, that tagname is "neils"

The Obituary Daily Times search site currently has a database of nearly 5.5 million

entries indexing obituaries taken from various newspapers -- mainly in Canada and the United States. Just over 6,000 of those entries have been taken from the Peace River Block News, published in Dawson Creek, BC, Canada. These cover the full publishing life of the newspaper from its initial issue in May 1930 to the present.

When you go to the Obituary Daily Times site, you will have to fill out a simple search form. Here's an example of how to fill in the search request:

To find a particular person's obituary from the Peace River Block News, indexed on the Obituary Daily Times site, proceed as follows:

Enter the person's surname

Leave a space

Enter the person's first name (if known)

Leave a space

Enter newspaper code peace

Submit search request

 

Example search requests

This request will give you this output:

CALVERLEY, Dorthea Irene (HORTON);86;Ashland WI>Dawson Creek BC;

Peace R-B-N; 1989-9-21;neils"

 

A request where the person's given name is not known may give a different output:

Calverley peace

This request will yield this output:

CALVERLEY, Dorthea Irene (Horton); 86; Ashland WI>Dawson Creek BC;

Peace R-B-N; 1989-9-21;neils"

plus two for her husband and one for her son

Since the site is an index, you will have to go to another source for the complete obituary for a person. If the obituary came from the Peace River Block News, send an e-mail request to the address given below to obtain the complete document.

Neil Stables, Dawson Creek, B.C.

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