Copies of the Winslow Register at the Illinois State Historical Library cover the following years: 1905, My 26-Je23, O 13; 1907, N 29: 1908, Je 26; 1909, Ja 1, D 31; 1910, Ja 7; 1913, Ja 31-Mr 14; 1914, Jl 24, Ag 21 This information is taken from Illinois Libraries "Newspapers in the Illinois State Historical Library" Volume 73 No. 4, April 1991 The local history room at the Freeport Public Library has all of the Winslow Register newspapers mentioned above on microfilm. As you can see, the dates covered by the paper are very sparse. This is probably due to the fact that copies were not maintained by the publisher. Winslow floods quite often. The downtown is oftened under water during periods of high water. It's possible that issues were lost for this reason as well. The local history room also has newspapers on microfilm for the following villages: Davis, Orangeville, German Valley, Orangeville, Pearl City, Lena, Warren (JoDaviess County), and others for villages in neighboring counties. I believe they have the Forreston (Ogle County) newspapers. The Freeport newspapers are numerous -- Banner, Budget/Repbulican, Democrat/Standard, Deutscher Anzeiger, Journal-Standard, Bulletin, Sonntagsblatt. I am sure I haven't named them all. The earliest paper appears to have been printed in 1847. All of these newspapers are microfilmed and available in the local history room of the Freeport Public Library. The names of the newspapers changed often in the late 1800's with many papers ceasing publication or combining with others. To obtain a copy of Illinois Libraries "Newspapers in the Illinois State Historical Library" write to the Illinois State Archives in Springfield. I believe there is a nominal fee for the book. Ken Bartelt At 09:43 PM 7/28/99 EDT, you wrote: >Thank you for the help......I believe there was a flood and a fire in the >town of Winslow around 1903......and perhaps between those two calamities the >Winslow Register and its archives may have been destroyed.... does anybody >online have information on the Winslow Register from Winslow, Illinois? > > >Mick Rybolt > > >==== ILSTEPHE Mailing List ==== >Old Photos: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilstephe/photos.html > >