This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: farmer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1245.61 Message Board Post: Chris, I had no idea there were newspapers at this time in pike co. My ancestor william james farmer of barry/kingston area died between 1860 and 1870... are there newspapers available at that time.. I don't have his exact death date.. I am hoping he is buried there and there would be an index that would help me to find him. Can you give me any information? thank you CArol

Hi Carol, Barbara's answer to your question is probably more than I could have given and sums everything up nicely in my opinion. The only other thing I can offer is this website. If you follow this link to the Illinois Newspaper Project and enter in "Pike" as the county, it will bring up all available newspapers and years that are available. I think that you can get the majority, if not all, of these via interlibrary loan - at least I've found the ones held by the Illinois Historical Society to be readily available. They also give the OCLC # for interlibrary loan orders. http://web.library.uiuc.edu/asp/inp/mergeddatabase/search_form.asp There are cemetery indexes available and at the very least a surname index is posted online for every cemetery on the Pike County, IL GenWeb site listed by Barbara. If you find the surname, an email request sent to whoever the person is with that index should be sent to verify the information. I've personally found them all to be extremely helpful and extremely fast in their correspondence. Good luck in your search! Hope you knock those brick walls down! Chris Durall Morgantown, WV -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 2:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: ILPIKE] Re: Old Newspaper Transcriptions from Pike County This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: farmer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1245.61 Message Board Post: Chris, I had no idea there were newspapers at this time in pike co. My ancestor william james farmer of barry/kingston area died between 1860 and 1870... are there newspapers available at that time.. I don't have his exact death date.. I am hoping he is buried there and there would be an index that would help me to find him. Can you give me any information? thank you CArol ==== ILPIKE Mailing List ==== Pike Co Maps http://www.PikeCoILGenWeb.org/maps.html