By the way, the Santa Clara City Library has the San Jose Mercury News on line for the period of 1886 to 1922. Same rules apply for a library card as for San Francisco. http://library.santaclaraca.gov/research.html The Martin Luther King Library in San Jose has a news clipping file for 1920-1985 as well as 1985 to date full text - on line & does not require a card but it is only selected articles. http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/databases/index.htm click on General Newspaper & Magazine Articles <index.htm?catID=8&getType=1> Jim Ron Filion wrote: >Margie, > >I think you are probably correct. I wonder if they were the first to get >a subscription to it. You should be able to request it through your >counties' libraries. > >Ron > > >>Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:09:49 -0700 >>From: "Margie Hinton" <marhinton@earthlink.net> >>Subject: Re: [NORCAL] San Francisco Chronicle, 1900-1922 >>To: <norcal@rootsweb.com> >> >>Ron, I wonder whether this is part of the ProQuest subscription with San >>Francisco. Mine is through Sonoma and Napa counties and doesn't give me any >>choice for Database at all. When I entered News - Historical San Francisco >>Chronicle - it gave me choices from New York papers mentioning San >>Francisco. There never was a publications choice. >> >>Margie >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Ron Filion" <ron@sfgenealogy.com> >>To: <casanfra@rootsweb.com>; <norcal@rootsweb.com> >>Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:54 AM >>Subject: [NORCAL] San Francisco Chronicle, 1900-1922 >> >>ProQuest has added articles for the San Francisco Chronicle for >>1900-1922, with plans to add 1865-1899! >><snipped> >> >> > > > > >----------------------------------------- >Visit: >NORCAL LIBRARY http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/norcallib.html >NORCAL Genealogy Resource Center http://www.sfgenealogy.com/norcal/resourcecenter/toc.htm >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORCAL-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/>