On 2 Nov 1998, Diane Y. Smith Royer wrote: > >I just read a post to the southern trails roots web that gave the address > >of a site with searchable newspapers. It includes African American > >Newspapers 19th Century > > > >http://204.170.102.11/cgi-bin/accessible/verify.pl Thanks so much for posting this! Here at the library where I work, one of the newspapers featured here resolved a question for us about an African-American entertainer in Buffalo in the 1850s. I highly recommend taking a look--the site is called "Accessible Archives." -=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=-+-=*=- Cynthia Van Ness, M.L.S. | Co-moderator, Buffalo NY USA genealogy page: af482@freenet.buffalo.edu | http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~roots If information were power, librarians would rule the world. (C. Stoll)