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Obituaries indexed by State Library of WA

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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This dataset contains over 10,000 indexed records of obituaries found in Western Australian newspapers, newsletters and journals from the mid-1800s to early 2010s. The records were created by Library staff from the State Library of Western Australia (SLWA) between 1997 and 2014.
Information captured includes: • the deceased’s name • year of birth and death • a title and summary of the obituary • the publication title and date it was printed in • the page number the obituary appears on

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Title Obituaries indexed by State Library of WA
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/2f8c1a74-8b10-4b58-b3bf-be339fb0fd09
Remote Last Updated 26/05/2022
Contact Point
State Library of Western Australia
info@data.wa.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1838 - 30/12/2014
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Western Australia Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "Obituaries indexed by State Library of WA". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/obituaries-indexed-by-state-library-of-wa