The Oregon History Center Library, on SW Park Avenue, has the best collection of Oregon newspapers back into the 1850's. Nedra At 10:10 PM 6/16/2005, you wrote: >I have found that I can go to my local library and request an inter >library loan of newspapers from other libraries. I usually have an idea >of the date I am interested in and I ask for a date range of from 1 to 2 >months around that date. > >In Oregon the Main library in Multnomah County (Portland) has the >Oregonian and the Oregon Journal back past 1900 (I believe). All other >Oregon newspapers are available from the University of Oregon's Knights >Library in Eugene Oregon. > >I have also gotten newspapers from Seattle, Oakland and Sacramento. > >The State of California also offers city directories available on micro film. > >Eugene Nedra Dickman Brill, Certified Genealogist [email protected] Registrar, Oregon State Society DAR Historian, Henckel Family National Association Coordinator Pendleton County, WV, [email protected] CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board. http://www.bcgcertification.org/