Thanks Keith for the link for newspapers during the Civil War. I appreciate it. This link has also been bookmarked right away. ----- Original Message ----- From: "keith nuttle" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 11:18 AM Subject: Re: [PABERKS] Reading Eagle > For the Reading Eagle during the Civil War try this link > > http://digitalnewspapers.libraries.psu.edu/ > > While Google Newspaper, which Guy mentioned, is a very valuable resource > don't give up if you do not find you subject in the indexed search. > Some of the pages are poorly quality, and some are rotated both of which > cause problems for the OCRs from which the indexes are create. > Additionally some of the images are not properly separated. I have > found the newspapers from two different days listed and one date. > > If you can not find it in the index, start reading through the papers > over a period of the target days. ie. If you know someone died on the > 4th of April, start reading on the 4th and continue reading each day for > several days there after. Depending on the time period the obituary > could appear in the newspaper as much as two weeks after the date. > While you will get the news of the day in the period, it is not as > cumbersome as newspapers tend to organize their papers in the same way > day after day. > > > > > On 11/25/2010 10:22 AM, Marlene Weaber Leber wrote: >> Does anyone have the web address for the old newspapers for Reading Eagle >> that was listed months ago that was free? Can't find where I was but >> know I was able to at the time find many obituaries& articles of >> interest. I did find an 1880 newspaper when first searching so it would >> be probably back to at least that year& up to at least 1946. >> ==== PABERKS Mailing List ==== >> [email protected] >> >> To contact the List Administrator: >> Rick Berkheiser, [email protected] >> >> To visit the Berks Message Board: >> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.berks >> >> To visit the Berks County, PA website: >> http://www.pa-roots.com/~berks/ >> Hosted by Nancy Freehafer >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > ==== PABERKS Mailing List ==== > [email protected] > > To contact the List Administrator: > Rick Berkheiser, [email protected] > > To visit the Berks Message Board: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.berks > > To visit the Berks County, PA website: > http://www.pa-roots.com/~berks/ > Hosted by Nancy Freehafer > > ------------------------------- > 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