The articles that I have been posting for Sardis come from the "Spirit of Democracy"-just one of several newspapers that served Monroe Co. I order the microfilm from the Ohio Historical Society (go to their website and select archives and then newspapers)through my local library. It costs $3.00 a reel and often one reel will have about 2 years worth of papers. I can order up to 3 reels at a time, and keep them up to 4 weeks. I CANNOT take them out of my local library--so I always have my fingers crossed that the microfilm readers are working! At the moment all my relations have been in Sardis--and thus I copy only the info for that community, but sometimes other things are on the same page and I will post them. I do have several connections to follow up in Jerusalem and may post spotty issues, otherwise I have no plans to collect any of the other information. Since the newspapers were published in Woodsfield--there is a mountain of information in the local gossip column regarding that community--and I have passed up lots and lots of great and lengthy obits. So, if anyone else out there wants to take on a summer project ... Sara Richardson Kelly