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Find Lifespan Overlap With Chronos Crossfinder

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May 19, 2023

Chronos Crossfinder Chronos Crossfinder takes a list of names of famous people and celebrities (ideally from the late 18th century forward) and checks with Wikidata to see if there are any places where the lifespans overlap. If there is, search URLs using that pair of names and the overlap timespan…

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Chronicling America, Genealogy, Google Books, Name Search, News, NewspaperArchive.com, Newspapers.com

Narrow Down Your Obituary Searches With Obit Magnet

ResearchBuzz
October 23, 2022

Trying to find an obituary? Obit Magnet takes a name and death date and generates date-bounded obituary search URLs for Google Books (newspapers only), Newspapers.com, NewspaperArchive.com, and Chronicling America. Enter the name of the person you’re searching and the day, month, and year of their death. Obit Magnet will generate…

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