A practical guide to preparing an obituary advertisement in a newspaper, with adaptable formats for death announcements, prayer meetings, condolences, remembrance notices and death anniversaries. There are newspaper advertisements meant to sell, persuade or recruit. An obituary advertisement carries a very different responsibility. It must communicate a personal loss with dignity while giving relatives, friends, […]

Losing an important document creates two problems at once. There is the document itself — a certificate, registration paper, passbook, property document or other record that has disappeared. Then comes the question almost everyone asks next: What do I need to do now? For some replacement or duplicate-document procedures, the issuing authority may ask for