Keep in mind, it may or may not be that accurate. Just for kicks I did a search for my great grandfather in San Francisco between 1864 and 1865 with '0' results. I have his obituary from 19 December 1864 from the San Francisco papers. It's a lot of money to join if it is not accurate. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "James R. Smith" <jim@historysmith.com> To: "The Schafers" <mankzcat@gmail.com> Cc: <casanfra@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:37 AM Subject: Re: [CASANFRA] Marriage Newspaper Lookup Help > Hi Cathie, > > Newspaperarchive.com has the Oakland Tribune from 1874 - 1977. > > Jim > > The Schafers wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I found some interesting info from a newspaper article that says my >>gggf was married for a third time. >>I'm now trying to find a database or need lookup help to find a >>marriage announcement in a Oakland Newspaper. >> >>There marriage took place on : >> >>Nov. 13, 1899 in Oakland >>John McLaughlin b. Ireland >>to Helen ? >> >>I do know John had lived most of his life in SF but must of for a >>time moved to Oakland around the turn of the century. >> >>I looked through the SF Chronicle and only found an article about >>ending this marriage. >>I was thinking there may have been more info in Oakland about the >>start of the marriage. >> >>If anyone either can lookup this up or send me where I can lookup >>online I would so appreciate it. >>I'm looking for her maiden name so I can get a marriage record. >> >>Thanks so much for the help! >> >>Cathie >>************************** >>Visit SFGenealogy.com! >>http://www.sfgenealogy.com >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>CASANFRA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > > -- > > James R. Smith > > Author: San Francisco's Lost Landmarks > > ISBN: 1884995446 > > www.HistorySmith.com <http://www.historysmith.com/> > > > > ************************** > Visit SFGenealogy.com! > http://www.sfgenealogy.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CASANFRA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

You're right Mike. These newspapers are scanned, digitized and run through an OCR (optical character recognition) program. If the scan is not sharp, the OCR program will miss it completely even if it's there. If I really need something, I'll read the newspapers cover to cover for a specified period just as you would do on microfilm. Jim mike@notrca.com wrote: > Keep in mind, it may or may not be that accurate. > Just for kicks I did a search for my great grandfather in San > Francisco between 1864 and 1865 with '0' results. > I have his obituary from 19 December 1864 from the San Francisco papers. > It's a lot of money to join if it is not accurate. > > Mike > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "James R. Smith" > <jim@historysmith.com> > To: "The Schafers" <mankzcat@gmail.com> > Cc: <casanfra@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:37 AM > Subject: Re: [CASANFRA] Marriage Newspaper Lookup Help > > >> Hi Cathie, >> >> Newspaperarchive.com has the Oakland Tribune from 1874 - 1977. >> >> Jim >> >> The Schafers wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I found some interesting info from a newspaper article that says my >>> gggf was married for a third time. >>> I'm now trying to find a database or need lookup help to find a >>> marriage announcement in a Oakland Newspaper. >>> >>> There marriage took place on : >>> >>> Nov. 13, 1899 in Oakland >>> John McLaughlin b. Ireland >>> to Helen ? >>> >>> I do know John had lived most of his life in SF but must of for a >>> time moved to Oakland around the turn of the century. >>> >>> I looked through the SF Chronicle and only found an article about >>> ending this marriage. >>> I was thinking there may have been more info in Oakland about the >>> start of the marriage. >>> >>> If anyone either can lookup this up or send me where I can lookup >>> online I would so appreciate it. >>> I'm looking for her maiden name so I can get a marriage record. >>> >>> Thanks so much for the help! >>> >>> Cathie >>> ************************** >>> Visit SFGenealogy.com! >>> http://www.sfgenealogy.com >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> CASANFRA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> >> James R. Smith >> >> Author: San Francisco's Lost Landmarks >> >> ISBN: 1884995446 >> >> www.HistorySmith.com <http://www.historysmith.com/> >> >> >> >> ************************** >> Visit SFGenealogy.com! >> http://www.sfgenealogy.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CASANFRA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > -- James R. Smith Author: San Francisco's Lost Landmarks ISBN: 1884995446 www.HistorySmith.com <http://www.historysmith.com/>