I have three tools to offer you in your search:

Social Security Death Index:
http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/ssdi/ssdi_index.asp
(I don't know how often it's updated.)

For phone numbers and addresses try
http://www.555-1212.com

For an indepth web search, you may want to check out
the search primer I wrote that was adapted (with
permission) by a school district in Colorado.  You'll
find there a plethora of search engines, tools for
refining your search, and more.  It can be found here:

http://204.98.1.2/isu/home/search.html

There is a new search engine I will be adding to the
above document when I put it on my own site.  Called
All the Web, it does a more exhaustive search in very
quick time.  They say only 2-6% of the Web shows up in
all the search engines of the world.  The site below
is attempting to remedy that and is quite fast:

http://www.alltheweb.com

For what it's worth, listers, if you've an interest in
genealogy, the Death Index (first link above) is a
great tool.



--- "Vallin, Amy" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello-
>
> Does anyone on the list know of a way to find out
> information about a
> deceased person's estate.  The person in question
> has items on loan from our
> collection, moved to another state, and we haven't
> heard from him or anyone
> regarding his estate or the items he has.  I really
> don't know what to do
> next.  I have done various people searches on the
> internet, checked out
> obituary notices on line, to no avail.  The "powers
> that be" here at the
> Science Center really don't want to have "to pay" to
> find information on
> this person.
>
> Any suggestions anyone has would be very helpful.
> Please feel free to
> contact me off the list.
>
> Amy Vallin
> Collections Registrar
> Louisville Science Center
> 727 W Main St
> Louisville, KY 40202
> 502-561-6100 ext. 6568
> [log in to unmask]
> www.lsclouienet.org
>
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