Costs
Career memorials: concerts, places, and charitable tributes
Career memorials preserve a celebrity's work through concerts, public places, and charitable tributes. Explore named examples and what each honors.
Desk
Field Desk
First-hand accounts of memorial obituary archive, including the parts that did not go to plan.
Rules
Anniversaries and archives corrections: three ways to change an old page
Anniversaries and archives corrections: the three ways to change an old page, what a family can ask for when removal is refused, and what resurfacing costs.
Guides
Why musicians' causes of death are not recorded
Musicians who died: causes of death are not recorded here. Why this archive keeps no cause field, what gets misread, and what the record holds instead.
Features
Anniversaries and archives: how old death notices resurface
Anniversaries and archives: how date-based features, reminders, round-number anniversaries, and search push old celebrity death notices back into view.
Industry
Why athletes who died this week often surface late
Athletes who died this week: why retired competitors go unreported, and how to trace one through local papers, death indexes and civil records.
Features
CDC death data Atlanta Seattle memorial notices: state view
CDC death data Atlanta Seattle memorial notices: 2024 state cause rankings for Georgia and Washington, who issues local notices, and how to log each source.
Rules
What the FTC Funeral Rule means for paid death notices and news obituaries
The FTC Funeral Rule paid death notice rules cover price lists and misrepresentation, while editorial obituaries sit outside the rule entirely.
Features
How US sports leagues, teams and unions handle an athlete death announcement
A walk through the league, team and union channels that announce an athlete death in the US, plus how to verify a report and what to do when a league stays silent.
Rules
How US libel and privacy law shapes corrections on celebrity death pages
Libel privacy law celebrity death corrections shape how US archives fix errors, balancing defamation, publicity, privacy, and copyright rules.
Features
Tracing a musician's death through Nashville and New Orleans memorial customs
Nashville and New Orleans musician death memorial customs diverge: label notices and CMA announcements versus jazz funerals and second lines.
Rules
Celebrity Memorial Service Etiquette: What Fans Should Know
Celebrity memorial service etiquette, from bag checks and free ticket lotteries to city permits, dress codes and the records you can request afterward.
Features
Deaths by year by profession: why coverage varies
Deaths by year by profession reflect obituary selection, not mortality. Learn the four editorial tests and where US vital records come from.
Reviews
Deaths by year this week: how archives review reports
Deaths by year this week: how a celebrity memorial archive reviews unresolved reports, tracks aging claims, and decides what to publish, pursue, hold, or drop.
Maintenance
Why a Memorial Archive Should Not Add a Cause-of-Death Column
Why a memorial archive for celebrity deaths should leave cause of death out of its entries, how monthly groupings mislead, and what an entry should record instead.
Maintenance
How to verify an actor's death report when a stage name hides the legal name
How a report that an actor has died is checked, why stage names defeat name matching, and which sources actually settle an identity when credit databases cannot.
Reviews
Anniversaries and archives: finding and citing an old death notice
Anniversaries and archives: what an anniversary piece is for, which body holds each death record, how to find an old notice and how to cite it in Chicago style.
Rules
How to research athletes who died: a six-step guide
Researching athletes who died means matching a competitive name on a results sheet to a civil record, and citing a dated, named source for every entry.
Guides
Cause of death guides: how records differ
Cause of death guides explain how US death certificates, investigative findings, notices, and obituaries differ, and how a cause may be certified or amended.
Costs
How to check a “deaths this week list” for errors
Deaths this week list: a seven-step method for checking celebrity death reports, confirming identities, spotting warning signs, and documenting corrections.
Maintenance
Deaths Today Corrections: How to Fix a False Death Report
Deaths today corrections: how a death desk traces a same-day claim to its origin, when it holds a report, and how a false death correction is written.
Rules
5 points worth checking on deaths today this week
Deaths today this week: the states a death report passes through at a records desk, what verified means at each one, and how corrections differ from withdrawals.
Industry
Why tributes do not confirm that a musician has died
Tributes, streams and reissues follow a report that musicians died, whether it is true or false. What each signal shows, and how to trace it to a source.