I've assembled the clippings I have found for 3 of my families and posted them here. They are each about 18 pages and a 1.5-2.0 MB download. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~davesherry/images/manley%20daily%20register.pdf http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~davesherry/images/shanley%20daily%20register.pdf http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~davesherry/images/sherry%20daily%20register.pdf I can't say you will find as much on yours but it is definitely worth checking out. The best way to go about it is to try different combinations in the search terms. http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/keyword.html I used last name, first name, town name, descriptive terms (e.g. "wharf boat"), etc. to find the various items. When searching for people in Ohio towns, selecting location = West Virginia is important because location refers to the newspaper not the state of the town itself. It's free to try the search. The results shown are small thumbnail images, but they don't always capture the part of the page that contains the words you are searching for. If you type in Robert - Sherry - Bellaire in the appropriate spots, you'll see some examples where you can see his name in the article and some in which you'd need to look at the downloaded file. The other great thing about the downloaded files is that they highlight in yellow the keys terms in the article that you are searching for. I actually found more articles on him by typing in just the last name (and other sets of combinations, including misspellings and split hyphenations of names) because the optical character recognition engine they use to scan and index all the content does not always accurately capture every word. In other words, there is more there than a simple search result shows. I'm really excited by this site because the newspaper clippings provide a depth of information that goes beyond the traditional vital and legal records we typically look at. Reading them breathes life into family lives beyond names and dates. And this method is far, far easier than scrolling through microfilm with the need to skip through many irrelevant pages. In addition, handling the output, the article, is much easier. Just download the .pdf file, cut and paste with your mouse. I want to get other people excited about this site so that its operators will see the surge of users with interest in Wheeling area content and be inclined to additional content, sooner and in greater volume. Try it and enjoy it. best, Dave http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~davesherry/ dave sherry <davesherry@yahoo.com> wrote: I found this site today, which costs $20/month. http://www.genealogybank.com I found literally scores of articles, mostly a sentence or 2, on my Bellaire families. Marriages, deaths, arrests, business dealings, etc. - comparable to the work that the Belmont OGS had done with the Belmont Chronicle, only better because you can download images of the actual articles. It appears to be related to the Americcan Antiquarian Society, which offers the database through certain libraries. http://www.readex.com/readex/index.cfm?content=145 According to the AAS site they will eventually have 1874-1922 of the Wheeling Register available. I don't plan to be a subscriber for multiple months, but it was the best $20 I've spend on genealogy in a long time. Hope you find it fruitful! --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail.
Weird that the location choice doesn't include Iowa!! But everything about Iowa is hard to find. Ancestry has basically nothing but census. Jae On Oct 26, 2006, at 7:15 PM, dave sherry wrote: > http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/keyword.html