The data in these tables is intended for geneological research. It is an index of the birth & death notices in the thrice-weekly* local paper, the Door County Advocate. If you find a name of interest, you may then go to the DCA newspaper office or the Laurie Room of the Door County Library in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin to see the full article on microfilm.
BEFORE YOU GET YOUR HOPES UP: This is a very new project, so the data range begins only at mid-2001 (see note below). It will be kept as current as we can, probably within a few weeks of publication dates. If you would like to volunteer to enter old data, please contact the webmaster.
This database summarizes only these items for each birth and death:
- Last Name
- First Name
- Date of publication. (American date sequence is used, MM/DD/YYYY) Sometimes a notice is published more than once, and this will result in duplicate or even triplicate entries. Different info may be available in each article; typically the last one is the most detailed. Each line in this database represents one name on one publication date.
- If a picture was published along with an obituary notice, "PIC" appears in a column.
- If the obituary is of a famous or influential person, "VIP" appears in a column. The designation of this flag is up to the person entering the data and is necessarily subjective.
- Additional comments have been entered in some cases. For births, unless other information is supplied, if both parents share the same last name, that is assumed to be the baby's last name also. If the parents' names are not the same, a hyphenated last name is used here, and the parents full names are recorded in the comments field. Since so many birth listings in the paper do not show a first name, I have had to often use "(a boy)" or "(a girl)." In these cases, at least the parents' first names are given in the comments field. Twins are also noted.
To search for a name, partial name, date or phrase in any one HTML page, use your browser's "find" function. There are only two databases here (shown in two sequences each), so a maximum of two searches (birth, death) will thoroughly check all listings. When this database gets large enough to warrant it, we may implement a more comprehensive indexing and search function, although Google.com seems to be keeping up with us!
Data note: The earliest data recorded here is 06/22/01. Some gaps exist from that date thru 10/30/01, but from 10/30/01, data is complete up to recent.
- Births
- By Last Name
- By Publication Date
- Deaths
- By Last Name
- By Publication Date
* NOTE: The Advocate was published twice-weekly, on Tuesday and Friday, up to May 29, 2003, when it switched to thrice-weekly, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
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