Other records used by genealogists are passenger ship arrival lists and newspaper obituaries.
During the year that followed, I was glad not to find his familiar name in the newspaper obituaries.
A newspaper obituary describes him as having "retained his mental faculties till the last".
A newspaper obituary mentioned four children living at the time of his death.
His death date was confirmed with a newspaper obituary in Victoria.
It also is punctuated with a feverish dream scene and a newspaper obituary of George.
The site provides a range of services, like providing links to newspaper obituaries (heavenlydoor.com).
It felt like reading a newspaper obituary, all the biographical data in chronological order.
For example the false report of his "suicide" in 1920 even found its way from the newspaper obituaries into encyclopedias.
His death is acknowledged in newspaper obituaries in 1937.