Jan, You might have more success in searching the available papers if you don't use the actual newspaper name when searching using Cathy's instructions. I followed her instructions, adding 'Osage' as a Keyword and got 13 results, several from the early time-period you are looking at. Using 'Standard' as a Keyword, hit #26 & #29 is the North Iowan & North Iowa Standard from Osage, Mitchell co. Don't let the date following the name of the paper fool you ... generally a date with a dash following it means there are several years of papers, and perhaps the entire run. The instructions are now posted on Iowa Old Press ... be sure to bookmark them! http://www.iowaoldpress.com/ILL.html Best wishes, Sharyl Ferrall www.iowaoldpress.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas A Nelson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 4:48 AM Subject: [IOWA] Old Newspapers Thanks for all your suggestions and help on finding an old newspaper article on my great great grandfathers in Mitchell County. I tried the advanced search in the State Historical Society of Iowa Library Catalog, armed with the name "North Iowa Standard" for 1863 and "Mitchell County News" for 1876. No records on either paper found. But I believe progress has been made in just knowing the proper newspaper names!! I will send a query in writing to determine if there is something available on either of them that is not on line. (Talk about having a hard time finding something......the State Historical Society address is not on their site, but found on a link!) Jan Nelson Yuma AZ