----- Original Message ----- From: "DCJJ" <daisy@cybrtown.com> To: <PAINDIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 8:43 AM Subject: Re: [INDIANA] old newspaper for Indiana Co. > Elaine - How far back to the newspapers go? > thank you > daisy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "E Schenk" <schenk.bartlebaugh@wanadoo.nl> > To: <PAINDIAN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 8:36 AM > Subject: [INDIANA] old newspaper for Indiana Co. > > > > I have found the best value on Ancestry. com was to be able to read the > old newspapers from Indiana Co. I think you can just join this part for a > reasonable amount of money. > > I have just spent a year pulling up over 1000 pages with just my surname. > When I first joined there were only 8 hits and could not believe my luck > when the Indiana County papers were added. They have even updated into the > 60's and 70s now though some years are not up. Saw my wedding photo again > from way back when. The best thing I found out was info that was never > told to my generation. Granddad put in jail for selling moonshine back > about 1924. Then a week later they caught the brains behind the operation > and Grandma was put away for having a still and 6 barrels. That explained > so much why they lost the farm. The deed was in the paper to pay fines and > court costs. There it was, the owner of the land was grandma. Saw the > deed of transfer a few years earlier to her from my grandfathers uncle. > She always said it was her farm and I never believed her. It was part of > the original land in Cherry Tree area. The pieces of other stories fell in > place. ! > > Then there are the 100s of obits and weddings and reunions. Even the > murder of a wealthy Great Aunt that happened in 1929. If you are from a > family that lived there for generations and have a not a too common name, > it is a great tool for researching for more than just dates of births and > deaths. > > > > Elaine > > > > > > > > ==== PAINDIAN Mailing List ==== > > Search the INDIANA CO mailing list ARCHIVES > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > Enter: PAINDIAN > > > > > > > ==== PAINDIAN Mailing List ==== > Search the INDIANA CO mailing list ARCHIVES > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Enter: PAINDIAN > > Just for the record, I love Ancestry.com although I have Gen.com also. I like it too and my favorite census year is 1900. I get the most information from it and it (and 1910) are indexed on Gen.com. I live in MI so I use the MI Death Index a lot and that is on Ancestry. Also use the 1920-30 census indexes all the time. I haven't subscribed to Heritage Quest. Have to look into it. Ella