This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EY.2ADE/333.2 Message Board Post: If you live anywhere near Berkeley, California, you can find back issues of the Downieville Mountain Messenger...Calif's oldest weekly (still going strong) from the 1850s on. ...at the Doe Library on the UC Berkeley campus. Go to the periodical section and just ask for help. If you know the approximate date you can scroll thru the appropriate microfilm roll. It takes less time then you think. Good luck.