Abstract: A method of indexing obituary information and alerting potentially concerned parties being computer-implemented for tracking and notifying a plurality of users, comprising; collecting a plurality of a list of funeral homes and an obituary records collection with a server application. indexing an obituary record with an indexing algorithm; parsing the obituary records collection into a relationships data collection and a user timeline entries collection with the server application. collecting the user timeline entries collection and the relationships data collection from a one or more living users among the plurality of users of an obituary alerting system; comparing the user timeline entries collection and the relationships data collection as between the one or more living users with those of a deceased party having been indexed previously.

Abstract: A method of using an obituary alerting system, comprising: associating a plurality of users with one another in said Obituary Alerting System 100 based on a one or more associations; indexing a one or more obituary sources; and updating a one or more living users of the deal and related information for a one or more deceased users among said plurality of users based on said one or more obituary source and said one or more associations.