This site was fruitful, in that I found a distant cusin born in Ethel, MS that settled in California California Digital Newspaper Collection http://cdnc.ucr.edu/about_us.html The California Digital Newspaper Collection covers the years 1846 through 1922, plus a few months in 2006 and 2008. The collection includes the following newspapers: Daily Alta California, 1849–1891; San Francisco Call, 1890–1912; Amador Ledger, 1900–1911; Imperial Valley Press, 1901–1911; Sacramento Daily Union, 1851–1895; the Los Angeles Herald, 1905–1910; the Californian, 1846–1848; the California Star, 1847–1848; California Star and Californian, 1848; Sacramento Transcript, 1850–1851; Placer Times, 1849–1850; Pacific Rural Press, 1871–1922; Marinscope, November 2008; Santa Cruz Sentinel, April 2008; Sausalito News, 1885–1922; and Black Voice News, March, April, and June 2006. Database users may search the collection by entering keywords in the search box. Searches may be limited to a specific newspaper. You can also browse the collection by newspaper title or by publication date. When browsing by title or date click on the month in the desired year. This will open a new page with a calendar for the month you’ve chosen. Newspaper title links will appear on the dates on which issues were published. Click on the title link to access the issue for the specific date. Compliments of Valerie Beaudrault