Are you looking for East Lyme 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. East Lyme obituaries, unlike death records, contain detailed information about the person's life - not just the name and date of death. In fact, East Lyme, CT newspaper articles originally published Connecticut obituaries. A fairly recent phenomenon is the archiving of these East Lyme obituaries, first through microfilm, and then through online databases.
East Lyme obituaries include personal information on the character of the deceased and the accomplishments to his/her name. For example, East Lyme, Connecticut obituaries might reveal to you that the subject was born in 1957, and that she had four siblings. East Lyme, Connecticut obituaries further detail where the woman in question grew up, attended schools and worked.