Hello, I am seeking a article about Clifton Edward Caves dancing with a beauty queen He was a home town boy of Clinton Oklahoma stationed in Abilene Texas, 1941- 1942, He won the contest,. Clifton Edward Caves was my uncle, Thank you in advance , Melodee Caves Slaney

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ViGee, Try the OKGenWeb ( Google it ) then the Kingfisher or Major County web sites. Try the Society, Libraries or the lookup person. -----Original Message----- From: ok-newspapers-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ok-newspapers-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Vi Gee Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:52 PM To: OK-NEWSPAPERS@rootsweb.com Subject: [OK-NEWSPAPERS] 1893 news or obit I am looking for any news of a death of Goldsmith (Gola) Kersey in Dec 29,1893 at Kingfisher, OK. The family thinks he was shot in a card game. He was 23 years old. His mother Deliah lived at Fairview, Major co.,OK Do you know where I can find out any such data? I thank you very much. vvgee@satx.rr.com

I am looking for any news of a death of Goldsmith (Gola) Kersey in Dec 29,1893 at Kingfisher, OK. The family thinks he was shot in a card game. He was 23 years old. His mother Deliah lived at Fairview, Major co.,OK Do you know where I can find out any such data? I thank you very much. vvgee@satx.rr.com

-----Original Message----- From: ok-newspapers-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ok-newspapers-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Melodee Slaney Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:08 AM To: OK-NEWSPAPERS@rootsweb.com Subject: [OK-NEWSPAPERS] seeking a newspaper obit: Joe James Hello list. I am seeking a possible obit On my ancestor Joe James. He was born Sept 18, 1890 and died December 23, 1978 Thank you in advance for any help. Melodee( Caves) Slaney ------------------------------- Melodee, Do you know where this event happened if in Oklahoma? There are 77 counties with an unknown number of newspapers in each in Oklahoma. Very few of them are indexed. Fred

Hello list. I am seeking a possible obit On my ancestor Joe James. He was born Sept 18, 1890 and died December 23, 1978 Thank you in advance for any help. Melodee( Caves) Slaney

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Megan, thanks so much for the info. I will contact him, don't mind paying him at all! I'm grateful. Regards, Nancy -----Original Message----- From: ok-newspapers-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ok-newspapers-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Megan Heyl Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 11:26 AM To: ok-newspapers@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OK-NEWSPAPERS] OK-NEWSPAPERS Digest, Vol 6, Issue 1 I would suggest contacting Bill Graham. His email is graham7111@cox.net I was given this email address and contact by the Tulsa Library. He is the researcher for the Tulsa Genealogical Society. I believe he does charge a minimal amount for obit help, so be sure to inquire with him if there are fees for your request. This fellow seems to know his way around the Tulsa Library and their genealogy department. Meg in MIchigan On May 13, 2012, at 3:00 AM, ok-newspapers-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Tulsa Daily World and Collinsville Newspaper (Nancy) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 15:31:49 -0400 > From: "Nancy" <nancyml@comcast.net> > Subject: [OK-NEWSPAPERS] Tulsa Daily World and Collinsville Newspaper > To: <OK-NEWSPAPERS@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <000001cd3075$e02a2e20$a07e8a60$@comcast.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I have numerous clippings form the above newspapers from about 1890 > through > 1943. They were sent to me some years ago but they do not have the > page and > column info on them and I need that for a report. Can anyone assist? > > regards > > > > Nancy > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the OK-NEWSPAPERS list administrator, send an email to > OK-NEWSPAPERS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the OK-NEWSPAPERS mailing list, send an email > to OK-NEWSPAPERS@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OK-NEWSPAPERS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of OK-NEWSPAPERS Digest, Vol 6, Issue 1 > ******************************************* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OK-NEWSPAPERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I would suggest contacting Bill Graham. His email is graham7111@cox.net I was given this email address and contact by the Tulsa Library. He is the researcher for the Tulsa Genealogical Society. I believe he does charge a minimal amount for obit help, so be sure to inquire with him if there are fees for your request. This fellow seems to know his way around the Tulsa Library and their genealogy department. Meg in MIchigan On May 13, 2012, at 3:00 AM, ok-newspapers-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Tulsa Daily World and Collinsville Newspaper (Nancy) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 15:31:49 -0400 > From: "Nancy" <nancyml@comcast.net> > Subject: [OK-NEWSPAPERS] Tulsa Daily World and Collinsville Newspaper > To: <OK-NEWSPAPERS@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <000001cd3075$e02a2e20$a07e8a60$@comcast.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I have numerous clippings form the above newspapers from about 1890 > through > 1943. They were sent to me some years ago but they do not have the > page and > column info on them and I need that for a report. Can anyone assist? > > regards > > > > Nancy > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the OK-NEWSPAPERS list administrator, send an email to > OK-NEWSPAPERS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the OK-NEWSPAPERS mailing list, send an email > to OK-NEWSPAPERS@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OK-NEWSPAPERS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of OK-NEWSPAPERS Digest, Vol 6, Issue 1 > *******************************************

I have numerous clippings form the above newspapers from about 1890 through 1943. They were sent to me some years ago but they do not have the page and column info on them and I need that for a report. Can anyone assist? regards Nancy

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COME AS YOU ARE - GROUP THERAPY OKLAHOMA GENEALOGY AND RESEARCHERS CHAT ROOM Saturday Night 9:00 P.M. We are an Oklahoma genealogy question and helpful answer chat room, open to the general public with Oklahoma genealogical brick walls. Have one? Maybe someone can see the question with different eyes and guide you in the correct direction or even find an answer for you. Or you can help someone else with answers from your experience in researching the different Oklahoma county your family lived in. Maybe you know of a link, an address, a repository or county genealogy society etc., which helped you that you can pass on. Nothing to sign up for, no cost, no overloads of e-mails, come and go as you please for an hour or so on Saturday night. Normal chat times are 9:00 P.M. - 10 P.M. Central time every Saturday night. I think it was about 10:30 when it wound down. Come join us Saturday night. All are welcomed. There's a java applet at: http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/ <http://www.okgenweb.org/%7Eokchocta/chat/<http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/><http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/%3chttp:/www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/%3e>> Drops you right into the room without any fuss or bother. Frederick M. Dittmar Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service PO Box 2601 Norman, Oklahoma 73070 http://www.frederick.dittmar.org<http://www.frederick.dittmar.org/> List Administrator for 82 mail lists. 33 State-Ghost Towns / 21 Oklahoma- / 13 Family Surnames / 15 Miscellaneous

COME AS YOU ARE - GROUP THERAPY OKLAHOMA GENEALOGY AND RESEARCHERS CHAT ROOM Saturday Night 9:00 P.M. We are an Oklahoma genealogy question and helpful answer chat room, open to the general public with Oklahoma genealogical brick walls. Have one? Maybe someone can see the question with different eyes and guide you in the correct direction or even find an answer for you. Or you can help someone else with answers from your experience in researching the different Oklahoma county your family lived in. Maybe you know of a link, an address, a repository or county genealogy society etc., which helped you that you can pass on. Nothing to sign up for, no cost, no overloads of e-mails, come and go as you please for an hour or so on Saturday night. Normal chat times are 9:00 P.M. - 10 P.M. Central time every Saturday night. I think it was about 10:30 when it wound down. Come join us next Saturday night. All are welcomed. There's a java applet at: http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/ <http://www.okgenweb.org/%7Eokchocta/chat/<http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/>> Drops you right into the room without any fuss or bother. Frederick M. Dittmar Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service PO Box 2601 Norman, Oklahoma 73070 http://www.frederick.dittmar.org List Administrator for 82 mail lists. 33 State-Ghost Towns / 21 Oklahoma- / 13 Family Surnames / 15 Miscellaneous

OKLAHOMA GENEALOGY AND RESEARCHERS CHAT ROOM > We are an Oklahoma genealogy question and helpful answer chat room, open to the general public with Oklahoma genealogical brick walls. Have one? Maybe someone can see the question with different eyes and guide you in the correct direction or even find an answer for you. Or you can help someone else with answers from your experience in researching the different Oklahoma county your family lived in. Maybe you know of a link, an address, a repository or county genealogy society etc., which helped you that you can pass on. Nothing to sign up for, no cost, no overloads of e-mails, come and go as you please for an hour or so on Saturday night. Normal chat times are 9:00 P.M. - 10 P.M. Central time every Saturday night. I think it was about 10:30 when it wound down. Come join us next Saturday night. All are welcomed. There's a java applet at : http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/ <http://www.okgenweb.org/%7Eokchocta/chat/<http://www.okgenweb.org/~okchocta/chat/>> Drops you right into the room without any fuss or bother. You might need to go to http://java.com/en/ and right below the big red button that says "Free Java Download" there's a tag that reads "Do I Have Java?". If you click on that tag it will test your computer to make sure you have the latest and greatest version. It's perfectly safe so no worries. [ If you don't have a good office suite of programs you might want to look into Open Office while your hanging out around there. - standard disclaimers apply ] Or if you have an IRC client you can go to irc.rootsweb.com and enter the OKgenWeb chat room. You may have to do a "/list" command to find the room in your IRC client.

Sorry that link is too deep. Try the following: http://www.okhistory.org/research/ Click on Search Catalog then Newspaper Catalog. Type in Hughes County Tribune. ________________________________ From: Dittmar, Frederick M. [mailto:dittmar_ksa@ou.edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 7:46 AM To: OK-NEWSPAPERS@ROOTSWEB.COM Subject: Hughes County Tribune lookup Melodee, Here are the publications available at the Oklahoma Historical Library: http://okhistory.cuadra.com/starweb3/microfilm/servlet.starweb3 Frederick M. Dittmar Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service PO Box 2601 Norman, Oklahoma 73070 http://www.frederick.dittmar.org Member: Association of Professional Genealogy - http://www.apgen.org Associate Board Member - Oklahoma Genealogical Society - http://www.okgensoc.org/ Board Member - OKOLHA - http://www.okolha.net LO for 82 mail lists. 33 State-Ghost Towns / 21 Oklahoma- / 13 Family Surnames / 15 Miscellaneous

Melodee, Here are the publications available at the Oklahoma Historical Library: http://okhistory.cuadra.com/starweb3/microfilm/servlet.starweb3 Frederick M. Dittmar Diggin' Deep Genealogy Research Service PO Box 2601 Norman, Oklahoma 73070 http://www.frederick.dittmar.org Member: Association of Professional Genealogy - http://www.apgen.org Associate Board Member - Oklahoma Genealogical Society - http://www.okgensoc.org/ Board Member - OKOLHA - http://www.okolha.net LO for 82 mail lists. 33 State-Ghost Towns / 21 Oklahoma- / 13 Family Surnames / 15 Miscellaneous

I am wondering if anyone has access to the Microfilmn of Hughes County tribune and would be willing to check on some names?? e-mail me off list if you can help, Melodee **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000002)

Hello list, seeking a obit from the Holdenville Daily News, the deceased name is Chester Barnhart, he died March 1983, I am hoping someone can locate this obit, If anyone can help, please contact off list, Thanks Melodee **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489

Becky, If you know where he was born, you might check those newspapers to see if they reported on his death. Otherwise you would almost have to know the town he died in, so that you could look for the story. What an intriguing mystery to track down. Even tho the poor man is dead. We have a family rumor that one of my gg-grpa was hanged but we can't prove it. cuzzinrootzz@aol.com wrote: I am new to this list. Rumor has it, that my Uncle Jack was a diamond thief. He was killed by the sheriff somewhere in 1928 (?). Don't have a clue where he lived or did his thieiving. His last name was WETZEL. Thank you, Becky ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OK-NEWSPAPERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Jackie Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably. And NEVER regret anything that made you smile

I am new to this list. Rumor has it, that my Uncle Jack was a diamond thief. He was killed by the sheriff somewhere in 1928 (?). Don't have a clue where he lived or did his thieiving. His last name was WETZEL. Thank you, Becky ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com