I hope I didn't give the impression that all the newspapers themselves were online... merely the UT library catalog, which would include the Barker Center, where all the newspapers are housed..(actually many are offsite in cold vaults) ... the oldest ones are very fragile & sorely in need of archival care. Getting the resources to save them all is unlikely, but microfilming will hopefully save many. It's sad to have such a collection endangered. -----Original Message----- From: DAG <[email protected]> To: Kathy Hoover <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, July 04, 1999 12:59 PM Subject: Re: Where to find Newspapers in Texas >Great! Thanks for sharing the information! I have done research at what was >formerly the Barker archive, now Center for American History. Wonderful. Didn't >know they had this online. > >Kathy Hoover wrote: > >> For any newspapers in Texas, I would first try the Barker Texas History >> Center, part of the Center for American History at the University of Texas >> at Austin. They do have an online catalog for at least part of the >> collection... Go to this website and use the link for UTCAT at the bottom >> of this page: >> >> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/CAH/components/barker/index.html#newspaper >> >> Here's a paragraph from their website: >> >> Texas Newspaper Collection >> One of the largest newspaper collections in the U.S., containing original >> editions of some of the earliest known newspapers published in Texas, such >> as the Texas Gazette (1829-1831), the Telegraph and Texas Register >> (1835-1854), and the Clarksville Northern Standard (1842-1852); as well as >> more than 2,500 locally published newspapers from nearly all of the state's >> 254 counties. The collection also features more than 100 Czech-, German-, >> and Spanish-language newspapers, including the Freie Presse Fur Texas >> (1870-1946), the Nasinec (1914-1985), and La Prensa (1913-1959). >> The Texas Newspaper Collection also manages the Texas portion of the U.S. >> Newspaper Project, a major program funded by the National Endowment for the >> Humanities to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm the state's most >> historically valuable newspapers wherever they are held. >> >> Newspaper Collection Finding Aids >> Search UTCAT >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jim/Jan Barrett <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> Date: Saturday, July 03, 1999 7:14 AM >> Subject: Fw: [BARRETT-L] Barrett in Ft. Worth, Texas >> >> >Can anyone help this woman find an obit or a possible newspaper that might >> >have carried the obit, for her great grandmother. Please reply to her. >> > >> >Thanks. >> > >> >Jim Barrett >> >Bedford, TX >> > >> >----- Original Message ----- >> >From: <[email protected]> >> >To: <[email protected]> >> >Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 8:08 PM >> >Subject: Re: [BARRETT-L] Barrett in Ft. Worth, Texas >> > >> > >> >> Hi Jim, >> >> >> >> I found a Bertha McGill that died in October, 1974, in Orangefield, >> >> Texas, which is in Orange County and my mother does remember going there. >> >> I've trying to locate newspapers in that area and none of the sites I can >> >get >> >> to has a listing of other newspapers in the area. One person wrote me >> >back >> >> that it could be in the Orange Leader or the Vidor Shopper, I'm assuming >> >they >> >> are very small papers. >> >> >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> >> >> Karen >> >> >> > > >