The Free Press electronic archives start in 1982. With over 7 million articles, no other resourse has that depth of coverage on Michigan and Detroit. The electronic archives holds most of the articles printed in the Detroit Free Press between March 1982 through yesterday. This includes all articles by Free Press staff writers and columnists and those from the Knight Ridder wire service. Death notices and obituaries Obituaries are the same as articles and are included in the archives.
Death notices are advertisements.
For 1986 through 1997, the archives contains the names, but not the text, of death notices. Since January 1998, the full text of most death notices are included. Tips on searching obituaries and death notices Death notices for the last year are also on the Detroit Newspapers Web site . This include longer versions of articles as well as Saturday college sports stories. The full text of some government documents, excerpted in the Free Press, are in the archives too.