I received an subscription to the Godfrey Memorial Library as a Christmas present. http://www.godfrey.org/ Many of the same newspapers that you can access from Ancestry, can be access at Godfrey. The papers come up in Adobe acrobat at Godfrey so once the page loads, you do not have to read the entire page to find the surname that you are looking for, just use Adobe's search tool and you have it in seconds. I have also found the search engine for the newspapers to be far more accurate than Ancestrys. A Godfrey library card is far less than an Ancestry subscription. I have had my subscription for about two weeks and have spent hours searching their obits. The Chicago Tribune Historical Archive is available along with older newspapers from the state and many of the current obits. Susan