This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/1VB.2ACE/11699.1 Message Board Post: Gail: I was told that all the German newspapers were destroyed during the war. People did not want to be known to associate with Germany in any way, therefore, they destroyed all the early German papers. In some of the early Sandusky newspapers, now on microfilm at the library, refer to and have reprints of some articles from the German papers. At the Sandusky Library, the following newspapers are on microfilm: 1822 - 1849 Sandusky Clarion 1849 - 1851 Daily Sanduskian 1851 - 1867 Sandusky Commercial Register 1867 - 1941 Sandusky Daily Register 1904 - 1941 Sandusky Star Journal 1941 - 1958 Register Star News 1958 - present Sandusky Register Hope this helps...... Janis Erie County Chapter Ohio Genealogical Society
Hi, The Hayes Presidential Library in Fremont has some Sandusky German newspapers. Their obit file does cover some of them. Ed > From: janis@lrbcg.com > Reply-To: OHERIE-L@rootsweb.com > Date: 13 Mar 2006 12:11:19 -0700 > To: OHERIE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [OHErie] Re: early German newspapers in Erie County? > Resent-From: OHERIE-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:40:29 -0700 > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/1VB.2ACE/11699.1 > > Message Board Post: > > Gail: > I was told that all the German newspapers were destroyed during the war. > People did not want to be known to associate with Germany in any way, > therefore, they destroyed all the early German papers. > In some of the early Sandusky newspapers, now on microfilm at the library, > refer to and have reprints of some articles from the German papers. > > At the Sandusky Library, the following newspapers are on microfilm: > 1822 - 1849 Sandusky Clarion > 1849 - 1851 Daily Sanduskian > 1851 - 1867 Sandusky Commercial Register > 1867 - 1941 Sandusky Daily Register > 1904 - 1941 Sandusky Star Journal > 1941 - 1958 Register Star News > 1958 - present Sandusky Register > > Hope this helps...... > Janis > Erie County Chapter > Ohio Genealogical Society > > > > > > ==== OHERIE Mailing List ==== > Homepage for this list is http://www.rootsweb.com/~oherie/ > To search this list go to http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > and enter OHERIE for the list name. > >