> From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: [OHPERRY] Obits. > To: [email protected]>> > Hello list, Just wondering how big an area the Perry Co. Tribune covers. > I posted and needed a death date for Allen Cremeans on 5/25/07 And a Sue > was good enough to let me no. Plus gave me the names of the papers that it > might be in. One was the Times Record was told they don`t do look up. The > second was Perry Co. Tribune, was told they don`t do look up. But finally > the lady told me she would do it when she had time. With the information > exact date, and year it should take a few minutes, I`m still waiting on > her to call me. Are they that over worked. Nancy Nancy, Don't hold your breath, until they call! They are probably not that overworked, but that just isn't their job. They are paid to put out the paper. It's true that some newspapers are more genealogy "friendly" with their lookups, but more and more are becoming less accommodating. Also more papers are charging for the lookups. I wish it wasn't so, but unfortunately I have found it to be true. You can probably find a way to get the obituary, but it will take some time and effort. Good luck! Elvin

Have to defend a bit. I worked on a weekly newspaper for several years and I'm telling you there is no time to look up things for people. Between "getting the paper" out, getting the news, and taking care of other work, you are tired at the end of the day. OHS has most newspapers filmed. And they interlibrary. Margaret Calvin > > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Subject: [OHPERRY] Obits. >> To: [email protected]>> > >> Hello list, Just wondering how big an area the Perry Co. Tribune covers. >> I posted and needed a death date for Allen Cremeans on 5/25/07 And a Sue >> was good enough to let me no. Plus gave me the names of the papers that it >> might be in. One was the Times Record was told they don`t do look up. The >> second was Perry Co. Tribune, was told they don`t do look up. But finally >> the lady told me she would do it when she had time. With the information >> exact date, and year it should take a few minutes, I`m still waiting on >> her to call me. Are they that over worked. Nancy > >Nancy, >Don't hold your breath, until they call! They are probably not that >overworked, but that just isn't their job. They are paid to put out the >paper. It's true that some newspapers are more genealogy "friendly" with >their lookups, but more and more are becoming less accommodating. Also more >papers are charging for the lookups. I wish it wasn't so, but unfortunately >I have found it to be true. You can probably find a way to get the >obituary, but it will take some time and effort. Good luck! >Elvin > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Here's the Ohio Historical Society index for what newspapers they have, and which ones you can get through inter-library loan. The last time I did this, the fee was quite reasonable ($3, if memory serves.) http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/newspaper/home.cfm -Stacy Perry Genealogy: http://www.hockinggen.com/perry On Jun 7, 2007, at 8:35 PM, Marguerite Crist Calvin wrote: > Have to defend a bit. I worked on a weekly newspaper for several > years and I'm telling you there is no time to look up things for > people. Between "getting the paper" out, getting the news, and taking > care of other work, you are tired at the end of the day. OHS has most > newspapers filmed. And they interlibrary. Margaret Calvin > >