Lonnie, To answer your initial question: a) the only real extended source for FCI obits we have is Carla Pulliam books of extractions from Benton newspapers (1850-1946) and Daily American (West Frankfort; 1921-1935) -- some of us have all these books and can do limited lookups More specifically to your request: for 1924 Carla states in her book: "microfilm not available from 03 January 1924 through 15 April 1924" Carla's 1943-1946 book starts 02 Apr 1943 for the year 1943 -- not sure why. You can order these microfilms supposedly through interlibrary loan from Springfield -- for a while they would not send them out-of-state, but perhaps this is possible now... -SRJ ...