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

One last comment -- I found long-lost great-grandad's death notice in a Johnson County's newspaper. (He lived in Grundy Co.!) It seems he had liver cancer and his family took him to the Iowa State hospital in Iowa City whcihis in Johnson Co.! There was a small one-inch mention in the newspaper saying that he passed, and his body was returned to Dike, Grundy Co. for burial. So newspapers in cities & counties where State Hospitals (i.e. Iowa City) or other major hospitals are located would be a good bet. (For sure more than one person went there as a last resort and died there.) One last thought- remember to look in newspapers in neighboring cities/counties too. My ancestors lived in Dike,Grundy Co., but they needed to go to 20 miles away to Cedar Falls, Black Hawk for a regular hospital care. Never a dull moment in genealogy, right? Sandy I do know that Ancestry.com and other Newspaper websites ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas A Nelson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 5:48 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 > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >