Just received this great info from Kristy Gravlin's Illinois/Oregon List. Thanks Kristy and Don. Dave Witthans ----- Original Message ----- From: Kristy Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 8:08 PM Subject: Something from today's ILL mtg. in Portland Hello Kristy, Good meeting today and very well attended by "many". I promised Doreen I would forward to you a link to finding the repositories for newspapers in every state in the U.S. I also happened to remember a link that will put people to "any" Public Library in any state which might be of value when wanting to contact them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is the link to locating the repositories for states that are archiving their newspapers -- http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html (The United States Newspaper Program is a cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Technical assistance is furnished by the Library of Congress.) The USNP has supported projects in each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each project is conducted by a single organization within a state or territory, usually the state's largest newspaper repository. A project's staff inventories holdings in public libraries, county courthouses, newspaper offices, historical museums, college and university libraries, archives, and historical societies. Catalog records are entered into a national database maintained by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and accessible through more than 43,500 dedicated computer terminals worldwide. Microfilm copies of newspapers are generally available to researchers anywhere in the country through inter-library loan. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is the link to finding Public Libraries -- http://www.publiclibraries.com/ Welcome to a community of public libraries! Here you will find the most extensive directory of public libraries of the United States. Please feel at home and enjoy your library search. The listings of local libraries in this web site will be updated continuously. If you would like to suggest a library to this site, please click here. We appreciate your input, let us know what you think about our site. Copyright © PublicLibraries.com and the content providers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hope this helps one and all, Don Finel CCGS Volunteer Librarian & ILLIG member ----- Original Message ----- From: Kristy Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 8:12 PM Subject: PS...one more to you about newspaper sources Hi again Kristy, I just happened to rembember one more that might be of value to others. Don ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://theoldentimes.com/news.htm Old News, Genealogy & History: General News Stories Historic Newspapers Online for Genealogical & Historical Research 18th- through Early 20th-century Newspapers from the U. S., England, Scotland, Ireland & Australia!