I have access to the 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1910, and 1920 census index for several states. Please advise how I may assist you. best regards ..bj nannybj@alltel.net
Shirley and B J, I was sent the families I was looking for in the 1870 Census for Berrien County. I want to thank you both for your very kind offers. I will sit back and let some others have a chance now. Don't know if a census lookup would help Tim or not. Tim, sounds like you have the same situation I do in my DRIVER line. They are all over Georgia, but can I find a record of my direct line? nooooooo! LOL Their 'believed to be' brothers and sisters and some other DRIVERs that we don't know of a connection yet, trails everywhere...but not my direct blood line. They apparently came into being by metamorphosis. Tim, also wanted to add that at the library in my small town, they have put the newspapers on CD. They no longer have a microfilm reader unfortunately, so wouldn't help me to order those. But, as others suggested, do call the library in the counties you are intersted in, see if they have newspapers and which ones, how far back they go. Sometimes newspaper offices keep papers for certain time periods. Check your local library to see if they will order them for you from one of the archived sources, usually universities or the state archives. You could also probably find some obituary books by a Google search for your areas of interst. Sometimes people compile them from the old papers and publish them. If you can find out the name of the book(s) even if they are out of print, some library may have them or someone may have a copy to do a lookup in. Debra gave you the link to the Univ of Georgia, here is one for the Univ of Florida. http://web.uflib.ufl.edu./fnp/ > I have access to the 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1910, and 1920 census index for several states. Please advise how I may assist you. best regards ..bj< >I have the 1870 Berrien Co. census but it doesn't have an index. I would be glad to look through it for those names. Shirley McMillan Durden< Sharon