This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hFB.2ACE/1666.2 Message Board Post: Hi Cindi, Yes, there is a library that has many many old newspapers which have obits- it is the State of Michigan Library located in downtown Lansing, MI. I have personally gone there and looked up several obits when I know the date of death. I have looked at old newspapers dating back into the 1880's. They are on micro-film by the city that carried the newspaper usually. I live in Delhi Township, which the mailing address is Holt, Michigan. It is next door to Lansing which I believe would have been the city to have a newspaper; they are the current newspaper for this area. I have not been to the Library in quite a while, but it certainly has been worth my time in searching there. They also have a death index and marriage index to look up old dates. They have tons of micro-film for census for the whole USA and a lot of old 1800's of Canada. There is no index for the Canadian census, you must know the area in which to look. In fact, most of one whole floor is for genealogy; tons of books and micro-film. http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17445_19270---,00.html