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What is a Live Announcement in Obituaries? US, Minnesota, Obituaries, 1855–1990

Melissa S Himes
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October 15, 2021 in Indexing

I have not run across anything that I consider to be a Live Announcement article, but, I would like to know what the definition is for such an image. Has anyone ever heard this term before and can you help me to understand the terminology? I don't understand in historical documents how there can be a live announcement. I think of that as an announcement made on radio, television, or the internet. But there must be another meaning. Thanks!

  • Index all obituaries, death notices, and funeral programs.
  • Mark all other images, including marriage, anniversary, and birthday announcements, family group sheets, family history stories, or live announcement articles, in Step 1: Images as No, No Extractable Data.

US, Minnesota, Brown County—Obituaries, 1855–1990[M36S-M2D]

Batch Code: M36S-M2D

https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/5c2adddd-572b-4810-ba26-903dc4c7a003

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  • genthusiast
    genthusiast ✭✭✭✭✭
    October 15, 2021 Answer ✓

    My guess: they may have meant 'life' instead if 'live' - typo?

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  • genthusiast
    genthusiast ✭✭✭✭✭
    October 15, 2021 edited October 15, 2021 Answer ✓

    I think all the announcements mentioned previously are 'life announcements' - marriage, anniversary, and birthday announcements, family group sheets, family history stories - I think they are using it as a catch-all summary category for the sentence (I guess in case they left something out) - maybe like society news/travel announcements used to be?

    Rather than the typical clarifying instruction - do not index any other type of records - they chose to start naming types of records not to index.

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  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    October 15, 2021

    @genthusiast what is a life announcement? A birth announcement? I don't get it...

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