The Thunder Bay 20th Century Obituary Indexing Project is underway and volunteers are needed in the Thunder Bay area. These will be available in print form at all local research facilities and possibly later online to asist international researchers. Indexing involves working with microfilm copies of the newspapers and writing down the name, age, d.o.d., place of death, and source.

The indexed time periods currently available in binders at Brodie Library in Thunder Bay are as follows: Port Arthur Daily News 1906-1916 and the Port Arthur News-Chronicle 1916-1939, (over 16,000 references). We are currently working on the early decades of the Fort William Daily Times-Journal.

If interested in volunteering, please contact me via e-mail. The assigned segments are six months of newspapers (to be completed in six months). If you have not worked with microfilm smaller segments can be assigned to get used to the indexing. This project will take about five to seven years to complete, depending on the amount of volunteers.

Dave Nicholson
Project Co-ordinator