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Evening Charlie
Obituaries are mainly for the "reat and the good", so cover only about 5% or thereabouts of the population.
Dependent upon the source, they can be quite brief to min-bigraphies.
Death Notices are much more frequent, covering possibly 60% to 70% of the population; but mainly contain details of the time and location of the funeral service.
Generally both are unlikely to be overly helpful genealogically, apart from possibly confirming or pointing at (likely) dates.
You would have to know at least the year of death; and then contact the appropriate Reference Library. It is unlikely that you would find the obituaries and/or death notices on-line.
There is one exception that I am aware of, Am Baile covers the main newspaers of the more northerly counties of Scotland; and I have made progress from information on that source.
Although it does cover obituaries and deaths, it is the other snippets that prove to be useful-
http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/newspapers/index.jsp
The "Am Baile" results led me to the NAS, which gave me access to court documents etc-
http://www.nas.gov.uk/onlineCatalogue/
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If you are lucky, you may find the WILLS on Scotland's Past of greater help - although only about 5% of the population left Wills etc.
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
These can range from Labourers to Lairds - but again there precise contents vary considerably, so that some may list every relative etc known to the Deceased, whilst others lack any genealogical detail.
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Up to 1855, Deaths were not regularly reported in Scotland (1837 for England & Wales), so the lives of many were not recorded in any shape or form.
Compounded by the fact that those early records that were created at the appropriate time might not have survived due to flood, fire, wars etc.
Alex Dow
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