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Re: Obituary Hunter

RedRoseWhiteRose  (View posts) Posted: 23 Apr 2007 8:44PM GMT
Classification: Query
Nearly a month after you posted . . . sorry!

I hadn't received any Obit Hunter messages for quite a while, either. Today I received one and started checking some of the entries. What a mess!

One entry was for "Catherine D. Formerly." Her name was actually McMichael. Looks like they used a bot to pull the information, so "Formerly Her-Last-Name" (can't remember what it was) was pulled instead of her surname.

Found a lot of entries that didn't relate at all to my search criteia. Upon closer examination, the actual obits contained my first name, but couldn't find anything else that related to me or my search which was for a particular location.

Some other gems:
Under Other Names Mentioned: Copyright and Full Story
The deceased White Oak Striffler was listed six times. There is no such person (well, there may be, but not in this particular case). It was actually the Striffler Funeral Home in White Oak.

Clicked on View Obit for one entry and was taken to Wikipedia!

I left comments and reported problems for some of these, but there were just too many of them for me to report them all.
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
Lyndy113 18 Mar 2007 4:42PM GMT 
RedRoseWhiteR... 23 Apr 2007 8:44PM GMT 
Lyndy113 24 Apr 2007 12:35AM GMT 
   

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