Thank you very much, Kathy. Wouldn't you think some county government kept track of IRS taxpayers or had a map showing landowners? Barb [email protected] writes: > To locate repositories holding any extant newspapers in the U.S., use > Chronicling America: > http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ > > If there are no extant newspapers from Hamlin in that time period, check > the next largest town and Rochester. > > Good luck! > Kathy > >