Hi folks, Well, I found the newspaper account of the great flood of July 4th, 1876. The headline is: "DEATH: Forty Persons Killed in Dubuque and Vicinity - Rockdale Blotted Utterly Out of Existence. But One Building and Less Than A Dozen Persons Left - And Those That Are Left Are Mostly Orphaned Children .... " The story is two full newspaper pages, 12 columns wide in all, from top to bottom. Many people are named in the story. What I will do first is scan the story for names, and than post that list to this group. I would like to post the whole story, but that would take a lot of effort. Anyone out there experienced with OCR (Optical Character Recognition)? It may be possible to pull this thing into ASCII, but it will still require a lot of correction. Tom in Chapel Hill ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com