Death Index Instructions
Searching for Death Notices in the Online
Tulsa World Resource
A death notice is not an obituary, as it only gives the person's name,
age, occupation (if known), and location and time of services. The key to
using the online Tulsa World database is that the death must have occurred
between 1989 and the present, as those years are the only ones included in
the database. For prior years, you will need to visit to the Periodicals
Department at the Central Library to make a microfilm copy.
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From the Library's main page, select Online Reference Sources under Research Tools.
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Scroll down to, or select 'T,' from the menu & then click Tulsa World.
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In the NewsBank window click Tulsa World.
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In the search field enter the person's name as first name [space] last name and click Enter.
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A list of results will appear and be forewarned that you may get a variety of articles.
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Look for articles with Transitions in the article title. For example, Transitions Births or Transitions Deaths.
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One last trick - if you have too many results, enter the name as John NEAR3 Smith. This will limit the results to those articles that have John and Smith within three words of each other.
A death notice usually appears the day after the death date. However, they can be up to two days later. An obituary may appear on the same day as a death notice, but usually it appears anywhere from a few days later to a week.
