Obituaries

DudleyTHall

Why are some obituaries posted in triplicate? I think they are always from GenealogyBank. I assume this is from larger cities morning, midday, and evening editions.

Can whomever's system not avoid this? While seemingly no biggee, when it's my own tree, I go ahead and research the names and relations, to achieve a completely attached source…problem is, i can't always remember the relationships in the second and third ones, so it becomes unnecessarily time consuming… I'm talking about the big families.

Nyx773

When I am able to view non-GenealogyBank obituaries, I have found the multiple obituaries for the same person are:
from different publication dates, e.g. initial short blurb announcing the death, then a day later a longer version announcing the visitation and funeral;
and/or
from different newspapers, e.g. competing newspapers in the same town and/or where the person grew up and/or where the person lived in their career years and/or where the person lived in retirement and/or where their relatives live (e.g. the son of John Doe died, the father of John Doe died …) and/or if they were famous or related to someone famous they could have a few dozen obituaries from across the country.

Áine.ní.Donnghaile

Indeed. One of my infamous/famous cousins, who died in Philly in 1940, has 61 obituary hints from the MyHeritage hints project.