Hi all, JMDurret was correct - this IS a good site. I checked it out and found no page that asked for money, although I did see ancestry.com boxes. However, those are elective and not required to use the data on the site. The following partial paragraph is from the site's front page <http://newspaperabstracts.com>: "Newspaper Abstracts goal is to become your complete resource for family history research using newspapers. Our site is composed of over 12,000+ news items, ranging in size from a single entry to an entire newspaper, all provided by site visitors and made available to you FREE of charge." Colleen [email protected] wrote: >Thank you for sharing. However this is a paid site and many of us cannot acess it. It would be nice if when it is a paid site that is mentioned. Wo those of us who don't have it can have someone get us the information. > >Thank you. > >From: [email protected] >Date: 2004/05/21 Fri PM 10:06:47 PDT >To: [email protected] >Subject: [DOWNING] Major Downing > > This website has a mention of a Major Downing: > >http://www.newspaperabstracts.com > >Partial extract from the site is: > > >THE IOWA STATE REGISTER > May 11, 1875 > Des Moines, Polk, Iowa > Source: Actual copy of newspaper > >PERSONAL > >-Major Downing, of Oskaloosa, is in the city, en route homeward from a trip >to Colorado. > > >==== DOWNING Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe in list mode send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject to [email protected] To unsubscribe in digest mode send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject to [email protected] > > > >==== DOWNING Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe in list mode send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject to [email protected] To unsubscribe in digest mode send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject to [email protected] > > > >