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/Ua.2ADI/425.1.1.1 Message Board Post: No, I'm sorry... no newspapers in Dade County until fall of 1878. The first microfilm copies we have of the paper start 13 January 1879. The only records in Dade County that go back into the 1850's are the deeds. We do have two old probate books that date back into the 1850's. Sue