Have you tried the groups that keep horse histories, rather than human genealogies? Nancy ------- I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. --Daniel Boone On Feb 3, 2008, at 10:42 PM, harand8479@aol.com wrote: > > One never knows how, when or where they will find the next bit of > information to perhaps knock down a brick wall................it is > a lesson in perserverance and not overlooking any little possibility. > > > > I have been searching for years in the Cincinnati area to find > further information on my great-grandfather and his trotter > horse?....."Proteine"........ > > > > The email below pertains to finding obituaries in the > newspapers.....just for the heck of it, I clicked on the "Fulton > County" > > link and searched for g-grandfather's name, because his only son > went?from Cincinnati to?New York about 1910..............what came > up were newspaper articles on the races his horse was in, in Utica, > Rochester, Buffalo, etc....................and here I had been > searching for that in the Kentucky/Ohio/Illinois race track > areas!?? He had been in the New York area racing the horse.? > > > I learned anew to take a few minutes and check out the links....and > want to thank the listers for this email chain ........ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linda H. Gutierrez <lilacarlhg@amnet.co.cr> > To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 4:24 pm > Subject: Re: [A-L] Obituaries > > > > > Hi Valorie, > > I have two links I can give you for your Newspaper listing: > > for Rochester & Monroe County, New York transcriptions of obits and > news: > > Monroe County New York Early News http://www.rootsweb.com/~nymonnws/ > > And for Western New York, (don't let the name fool you) copies of > the actual > newspapers from a large span of years offered in PDF format: > > Fulton History http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html > > Linda > in Costa Rica > Monroe County, NY Records and Family Genealogy > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/ > Monroe County, NY History > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Valorie Zimmerman > To: alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com > Sent: 03 February, 2008 4:54 AM > Subject: Re: [A-L] Obituaries > > > On Monday 14 January 2008 11:06:59 am ebarbarajo@verizon.net wrote: >> This may be a lame question, but one that I must ask. >> >> Are / were obituaries printed in the newspapers and are they >> available >> anywhere? >> >> I know they are a tremendous resource, and am hoping that I can >> find some >> from the 1800's to the present. >> >> Brab > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > __ > More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http:// > webmail.aol.com > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALSACE- > LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message