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I am trying to find the full obituary for this man who was a Doctor in New Westminster. He died in 1998 I am a little reluctant to enter any more details here (privacy ) except to say his wife’s obituary was Published in The Vancouver Sun and The Province in 2007
Thank you

well without a name this would seem impossible to me

Are you sure there was one?

See if he is listed here
https://www.inmemoriam.ca/directory/province/bc-british-columbia/1/

If not, contact the most likely newspaper who may be able to find it in their Archive.
If his wife's mentions a funeral directors, contact them to ask if they were used for her husbands internment. They may still have a record if they were responsible of placing the obit.
How about a local library if you've some idea of where he lived?

Not too sure why you are concerned with Privacy. He died in 1978, she died in 8 years ago in 2007. If we were to find anything on-line, we'd post a hyperlink, not the article.

Stairway...

You could try the following site..

http://www.cmaj.ca..... adding 1978 (Canadian Medical Journal)

Its easier if you just put in what I have put below... because the above site brings up the abstracts of all that was in that particular year)

CMAJ 1978 Deaths or Obituaries whichever term you prefer...in a search engine

Has Stairway altered her OP since you guys posted??


The OP says the guy died in 1998?

Not sure, although I got the impression the husband died before the wife. It may have been a few year earlier than the one now shown? Not that it matters a great deal.

Edit - from an earlier post, He died in 1978.

With no names of either of the deceased, Stairway presumably only wanted source suggestions, not for any on us to research.

Dear all,
Yes I’m sorry original D.O.D.Was a typo
Thank you for your comments, and have spent a couple of hours on the net following the links mentioned without any success. All other points noted. I live in England. My dad was born in Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland
He was my fathers cousin (paternal) and have photos of when they were younger (no addresses from that time) no living family to ask,
Here is what I have found out so far-
Thomas Hood NEILSON born in Scotland abt 1921
“ NEILSON, Dr Thomas H; 77; New Westminster BC>Glasgow SCT; Province (BC); 1998-3-4; verbeek “ source rootsweb Does that read 3rd April ?
Military serial no: source- supplement to the London Gazette, 12 December, 1944 5683 24th Sept .1944 1365031 Thomas Hood Neilson (186657)
Address (from Mums address book) Mr. Thomas (Tommy) &Vera Neilson. 819 Cherry St. New Westminster British Colombia V34 4MB Canada.

He married Vera in 1954 Vera M. (b. 7 Nov.1921) surname at birth Beamish
Source Internet search CAN-BC-OBITS-L[CAN-BC-OBITS]
I think his parents were James (Stewart) Neilson and Catherine Mary McKirdy I was hoping his obit might verify this.
No I am not sure if an obit was published but apparently he was a real fun loving person.

from a Public Family Tree on ancestry (unless this is your tree??)


Thomas Hood Neilson Dr.
Birth abt 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland
Death 3 April 1998 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada


Web: Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-Current

Name: Dr. Dr Thomas H Neilson
Age at Death: 77
Birth Date: Abt 1921
Birth Place: New Westminster BC
Death Date: abt 1998
Death Place: Glasgow SCT
Publication or Record Date: 4 Mar 1998
Publication or Record Place: United States
URL:


The URL links to ...............

http://obits.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/obit.cgi?Surname=NEILSON%2C%20Dr%20Thomas%20H&type=Keyword

If you go to that last link, you can download a FREE pdf of the obituary ...... I don't want to download it, but it may well give you the information you want.

???????????


from ancestry, a photo of someone thought to be Thomas Hood, with "Elma and Jean"

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/34169665/person/20457506731/photo/2e002b0f-b0ea-4bc0-ae73-88ff75ed6d6a?src=search

Hi All.
I have tried but there is nothing to down load from that link . Please can someone have a search for me ?

Although I'd looked when Sylvia posted the link, I think the suggested download was for a programme to open PDF files.

Try and trace the newspaper archive or local library service. They may be willing to do a look-up for you.

It was a PDF download, which is why I did not want to download it onto my computer

Sorry - your computer must be better than ours. From your earlier link, this is what's on my screen
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Interactive Search
Entries matching "neilson, dr thomas h"

If no names are listed below here, then none were found.
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Type: Keyword Matches: 1-1 of 1 Breakdown: neilson[1099] dr[73261] thomas[259011]

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NEILSON, Dr Thomas H; 77; New Westminster BC>Glasgow SCT; Province (BC); 1998-3-4; verbeek


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Keywords: [ boxes here to enter names]

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None of the words seem to be a hyperlink. Its most odd that we are having different experiences!

DET ...

on my computer, I get what you see, but at the right hand side is a box that says Download PDF and instructions on how to do it

I assumed that would download the actual record, but may be not.

That was originally there, but when I hovered my curser over it, it turned out to be an Advert :-S
Although I've since navigated away this evening, the Pdf box wasn't there, but something different.
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Anyway - How about contacting New Westminster Library? There are email addresses & other sugggested contact details on the following link

http://www.nwheritage.org/heritagesite/genealogy/library.htm

Gone back to Sylvia's link - on the right is a search box for Fold3

Daily Obituary Times

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~obituary/


from another site ..............

"Just be aware that the Obituary Daily Times DOES NOT have the obituaries. It is just an index to help you find the newspaper that does have the obituary or notice of death."



so we need to find the newspaper in BC that published that obituary ................

I would suggest that it was in The Province, published in Vancouver

Unfortunately, so far as I can make out, their archived obituaries are run by legacy.com, which is an ancestry site, and requires World Wide membership to search.

NEILSON, Dr Thomas H; 77; New Westminster BC>Glasgow SCT; Province (BC); 1998-3-4; verbeek
Still following your leads,in the meantime please can you confirm how this date reads?
Is it 3rd April or 4th March?
Thanks. :-)

As its a transatlantic record, it would be March 4th 1998

year - month - day.

Were's Glasgow SCT? Is SCT another Province? If that is so, would the obit have come from there?