If you are trying to find information on someone who has passed away, this may be the place where you will find what you need. Containing over 180 U.S. newspapers, most of which date back to the late 1990's (some before), America's Obituaries & Death Notices includes everything from front page news articles to paid death announcements. Both large and small newspapers are represented, with California, Florida, and Massachusetts having the most listings. Prominent newspapers include the Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Denver Post, Detroit Free Press, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Washington Times, and, of course, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Library subscription.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index (not full-text articles) to over 15 million biographical sketches on nearly 5 million people in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures, living or dead, throughout the world. [For a full description of this database, go to Gale Group's Product Fact Sheets to link to a PDF format file. The Acrobat Reader plug-in is loaded on the MPL PCs.] Click here to view requirements and tips for remote access to library databases. Library subscription.
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For biographical information on people from antiquity to the present, use this database of more than 46,000 in-depth profiles, 26,000 images (photographic portraits or artists' renderings), links to related full-text articles, article abstracts, and index citations from over 4,000 periodicals from sources such as Current Biography. Searching can be done by keywords, date of birth, profession, place of origin, gender, ethnic background or any combination. More information is available if you click here for the HW Wilson database descriptions page. Library subscription.
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Use this Gale database to find biographies and periodical articles on over 1 million people using search criteria such as name, birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender. This database combines more than 300,000 biographies on 200,000 people from: Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, Writers Directory, and more, with nearly one million biographies from The Complete Marquis Who's Who®. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. [For a full description of this database, go to Gale Group's Product Fact Sheets to link to a PDF format file. The Acrobat Reader plug-in is loaded on the MPL PCs.] Click here to view requirements and tips for remote access to library databases. Library subscription.
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Searchable online database (sponsored by the cable television producer A&E
Biography) provides short biographies of 25,000 of the greatest names, past and present.
This site includes birthdates, death dates, and cause of death of famous people. Biographical information and links to the Internet Movie Database are included for some celebrities.
Do you need to contact a government official? This Web page lists selected government officials that serve Milwaukee County residents. Federal, State of Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, City of Milwaukee and court officials are listed and maintained on this page by the staff of Milwaukee Public Library.
This Gale product is a complete literature reference database providing online access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis for more than 140,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers and their works. Other features in the Literature Resource Center include over 5,000 explications and overviews of prominent literary works; links to 5,100 websites focusing on major authors and their works; over 6,500 timeline events to help place literature in its historical and social context, 2,300 author portraits; a guide to writing a Modern Language Association-style research paper; and more. Searching may be done by Author Name, Title, Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes. The database includes: Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Literature from 1400-1800. [For a full description of this database, go to Gale's About the Literature Resource Center.] Library subscription.
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By the end of 2001, the Wisconsin Historical Society will have placed online 16,000 articles on people and places in Wisconsin. The material comes from newspaper articles found in scrapbooks available in the WHS Archives. The years cover 1860-1940.
