Dear Joyce & List FYI on microfilm for the Weekly Shasta Courier. All issues are not microfilmed but I happened across the following Header info on the reels I just borrowed that may help us out in the future: "This file of the Weekly Shasta Courier has been photographed from original copies in the possession of: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley The Shasta County Historical Society, Shasta The M.H. De Young Museum, San Francisco." I have not inquired yet, but, the institutions above may have copies that did not make it on to microfilm. Always worth a try. I myself will be investigating this further as the copy I need is not on film. If anyone else has run across this problem, let me know & I will look for your "Lost Courier Issues" when I look for mine. Joyce: I happened to have, waiting at my local library, the rolls of the Shasta County Courier that you were needing a search in. For Merrimac Brown I scanned July 2, 1989, July 9th, 1898 & July 16th 1898. There is no weekly courier issue dated the 13th. I found no mention of Brown. FYI, I might have missed it, but, I don't think so. Maybe you can call ancestry to double check obit date. As for Cooper, I searched Jan 28th 1899 then, the next paper on the microfilm was dated 2/25/1899. I didn't bother looking as it was a lot later. I have been searching for my George Dingman, there was an inquest into his death. Wouldn't you know the issue I needed September 5th 1903, Volume #27 was skipped! Hope this info is helpful. I thought I would be making at least one discovery today. There is always tomorrow. All My Best, Jennifer Adams Joyce Hagerty wrote: > > Does someone have access to the microfilm of the newspaper, The Shasta > Courier? > > I found an obituary listing in the Ancestry.com listing of Shasta County > Deaths from that newspaper for a gg-aunt of mine that might give me some > leads as to her mother. > > The listing gave this information...Merrimac Brown, 17, died Oak Run, > 7/1/1898, obit 7/13/1898. > > I also need a lookup for Jacob Cooper, d. Parkville Jan. 28, 1899. The > Lingenfelter files have him listed as a son of Cunningham Cooper, but I have > found no record of him in any of the records of Cunningham's family. I am > trying to prove or disprove this. > > I would appreciate anything that you can do to help me. > > Joyce Hagerty