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 >