TINA'S REPLY: THE A.I.S. (Accellerated Indexing System) on fiche at your local FHC, has a MORTALITY SCHEDULE for *I believe* 1850. This might be just what you are looking for! Call or go to the FHC nearest you and ask if they have the AIS. If the FHC consultant doesn't know, go there and look....It's called A.I.S., and it has several diff. "searches" in it .... 1-7a. And the Mortality Schedule (not just for GA, now that I think of it, prob. the whole US for 1850...I think. I hvent looked at it for a number of years.) You will see what the different "searches" are on the AIS, but the one I usually look at the most is Search #7a -- it pretty much covers the whole U.S., for like 200 year span. You'll see the specific searches it has. Good luck! TINA/CA tina@tcsn.net *Listowner of: (at onelist.com: STEMBRIDGE@onelist.com BUSSEY " HARDEMAN " HOLLYMAN " WATKINSREV " (for the Watkins brothers in the Rev War, of Duplin/Edgec.Co.NC, brothers, MITCHELL, LEVIN & PETER (and now maybe WILLIAM!) LDSFHCConsultants " WILKINSON CO.GA LIST (rootsweb: WILKIN-L@rootsweb.com) **** At 09:13 PM 6/29/99 -0400, you wrote: >Could someone please tell me the name of the newspapers that were in existence during the above time frames for the columbus georgia areas. I would also like to know where would i write to obtain a will of someone having died around 1850 in georgia and if such would exist. I don't know the specific city or county. At this time, only the name of the person and the names of persons listed in the will. Delbra > Delbra=20 > > >