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 >> >