Have a fascination with history? Probably not as morbid as this guy, though.

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Have a fascination with history? Probably not as morbid as this guy, though. 

An entire blog where death notices are collected from newspaper records and shared online.
http://thebabydied.blogspot.com/

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Maggie Tattersall said…
I love that kind of social history - the killer pig in Galway was a bit shocking tho.

Our local paper has snippets of news from 100/50/25/10 years ago, and the stories are so much from another age and completely different social structure.

I'm surprised at the stories from 10 years ago - they seem like at best a couple of years ago to my concertina'd timeframe :(
September 22, 2012 at 11:43 AM
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