This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TZ.2ADE/4878.1 Message Board Post: I suggest you contact the Bridgport Public Libraries Historical Collections Department. You can send them a letter requesting genealogical research. Make sure the letter is as detailed as can be with names and dates of the family you are researching. The staff there are vey helpful. They have Bridgeport newspaper on microfilm going back as far as 1860 and city directories that go that far back as well as books on bridgeport history. Their Newspaper is not indexed, so please give dates if you want obits. Their search fee is $5.00 plus 10-15 cents per page copied. You do not have to sned the money right away they will send you a statement with whatever they are able to find. I hope this was helpful too you.