John None of the obits from the Alton Telegraph are online. The only ones that are at the present time are those in the archives of The Telegraph (originally Alton Telegraph, then Alton Evening Telegraph, and now The Telegraph). The website for The Telegraph: www.thetelegraph.com Although a different address will appear when connecting. The obits are easily found. The archives only goes back in the late part of 2000, but at least it's a start. On a different note John, I know of two different families of Coffee. One was in the Bunker Hill area and connected to the Wood family for which a great deal of research has been made and published. The other is a Coffee family that lived in the Bridgeton/Maryland Heights MO area back around the turn of the 20th century (early 1900's). This family's patriarch was Daniel H. Coffee who married Annie Jane Martin daughter of Andrew Jackson Martin and Mathilda Dismang. Contact me directly about your Coffee ancestors. Debbi Geer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com