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