OCH = Oneida County Herald title change Augto Rhinelander Herald Ma– April 27, 1895 Information on Newspaper Publications NN = New North – December 7, 1882-September 10, 1947, merged with Rhinelander Daily News in 1947,
We know it isn’t perfect, but it’s pretty close. No attempt was made by the volunteers to create a record of every missing issue within individual rolls of film. The microfilm came from a variety of archival and commercial sources, not all of which had access to every single issue of all published newspapers. Volunteers had different notions of whether news stories about out of town accident victims and the like qualified for the file. Every attempt was made to include every name, however…Depending on the time period and publications, some newspapers had a formal obituary column, but many did not – which sometimes made the comprehensive gathering of death notices quite challenging. This index is as accurate as several dozen volunteers working from microfilm over a period of 30 years could make it. Here you will find alphabetical listings of the obituaries appearing in those newspapers dating back to 1882. Rhinelander District Library in conjunction with the Northwoods Genealogical Society created an index of obituaries from the Rhinelander, Wisconsin area newspapers. Rhinelander Area Newspaper Obituary Index 1882 – 2006. ONEIDA COUNTY Part of the WIGenWeb Project Keeping Internet Genealogy Free
