I believe Hayner has all of the TELEGRAPHS going way back and the HAVE AN INDEX!!!!!!!!! Cheers!!!!!RB Marilyn Lane wrote: > I will be in Alton in about a week and a half and was intrigued by some > of you saying that Edwardsville deaths were posted in the Alton > newspaper. Some of my ancestors, BURKHART and HEBERER, may have died in > Edwardsville and I would like to find their obituaries. This would have > been around 1855-1870. Do the Alton newspapers in the Hayner Library go > back that far? > > Marilyn Lane > Mountain View, CA > > ==== ILMADISO Mailing List ==== > The RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative is supported by its users: > RootsWeb would cease to exist if not for the support of folks like you. > By becoming a Member, Sponsor, or Donor, you help RootsWeb > provide Web and FTP space on thousands of genealogical topics, > mailing lists for thousands of groups of genealogists with shared > interests, and search engines to make huge amounts of genealogical > data freely available to Internet genealogists. > Become A Rootsweb Sponser Today! > http://www.rootsweb.com/