To find out more about newspapers, check out the ancestor hunt blog. The specific instance below leads you to his favorite free newspaper sources. Check out his archives for how to's and state by state lists. Fantastic! http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/the-5-best-free-sites-for-online-newspaper-research-for-genealogy My favorites are Elephind, Google news archive (free) and Fulton Postcards also free. The latter started as a Fulton, NY and surrounding county site but now has many historic newspapers PS in places you know your target person lived, modern editions of newspapers that have been around for a while may have something about your "ancient" family in a "Hundred Years Ago" article. So don't dismiss modern articles with the target surname (I assume we are not talking Smiths) I found out when my greatgrandmother sold her house in Nevada, Mo (1898) in one such article from 1998, long after my part of the family had packed off to California. Same newspaper 1998 & 1898 was in google archive. Went back and got the first article. All in Google archives. Nancy Caton California Thumbed into my iPhone. Apologies for terse or misspelled items. > On Feb 23, 2015, at 7:20 PM, Martha Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > > Your local Family History Center is a good place to use some of the paid websites that have been mentioned to the list. > To find the center nearest to you, go to this site https://familysearch.org/locations/ <https://familysearch.org/locations/>