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What a career memorial timeline records, and where it stops
Career memorials timeline: the four kinds of date a chronology confuses, where entries come from, and the parts of a working life records never hold.
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Cause of death guides: which records hold a cause
Cause of death guides: which records hold a cause, who may request a certified copy, and what an obituary archive can publish when none is released.
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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.
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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.
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Which sources report deaths today, and how causes are stated
News desks, coroner offices and paid death notices each report deaths today, and each states a cause differently, or omits the cause entirely.