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/iIB.2ACI/904.2.1.1 Message Board Post: I know that you can find microfilmed copies of the old newspapers at the MN History Center. They have an online database that you can use to look up newspapers for your area of interest: http://collections.mnhs.org/newspapers/arsearch.html Once you find which newspapers you want you can ask your library to do an inter-library loan of the film you are after: http://www.mnhs.org/library/about/loan.html The loan period is 3 weeks from the date of receipt of the request, with 2-week renewals for newspaper and manuscript microfilm only. Some other resources are also availabile for loan, such as naturalization records, Minnesota State censuses and county tax rolls and some railroad records.