This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1973.1 Message Board Post: I use a book called "Newspapers in Microform: United States" to check for newspapers in an area I am researching. I checked the pages that I copied for some of the towns in Pike Co. but did not find any newspapers that early in that area. Try checking newspapers 50 and 100 years later. Sometimes the papers will have 100 years ago today sort of thing. Most of the early newspapers on microfilm seem to be at the IL State Historical Library in Springfield.