Are you looking for Old Town obituaries and death records? While this is very useful in researching a family name, you are actually limited in what you can find when you search only for basic information. Old Town obituaries, unlike death records, contain detailed information about the person's life - not just the name and date of death. In fact, Old Town, ME newspaper articles originally published Maine obituaries. A fairly recent phenomenon is the archiving of these Old Town obituaries, first through microfilm, and then through online databases.
Old Town obituaries include personal information on the character of the deceased and the accomplishments to his/her name. For example, Old Town, Maine obituaries might reveal to you that the subject was born in 1957, and that she had four siblings. Old Town, Maine obituaries further detail where the woman in question grew up, attended schools and worked.