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/WMB.2ACE/4550.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Dear Mary, I live in Michigan and have gotten microfilms of the St. Louis MO newspapers and Wisconsin newspapers through the Inter Library Loan and some newspapers from Kansas through one of the historical museums. The St. Louis papers did not come from the St. Louis Public Library but from another source that had them, possibly the National Archives. I don't know if searching an index would help. You might just want to pick one of the larger newspapers from that time period and look at the reel, page by page. And look at everything. I have found death notices/obituaries on the from page and as well as buried in the neighborhood news type articles. Georgia