To get the ID or barcode or library # ?? Thanks Joann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard M. Reese" <richreese@fast.net> To: <paluzern@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 7:33 PM Subject: Re: [PALUZERN] General question re: availibility ofHazletonnewspapers > Also at the PA State Library, where you can do a catalog search on line > at: > http://www.statelibrary.state.pa.us > To check what is available, you can do a guided search for "newspapers" > and > the "city" or "county" on their web page. They will loan anywhere in the > States. > > There is also another useful link from the State Library web site to a > service called Access Pennsylvania where you can find other libraries > which > have a particular title or newspaper in their collections. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Norman D. Nicol" <ndnicol@epix.net> > To: <paluzern@rootsweb.com>; <elangley3@cox.net> > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 5:19 PM > Subject: Re: [PALUZERN] General question re: availibility of > Hazletonnewspapers > > > : Hello Ed, > : > : If you mean by hard copies, the original newspapers, I don't believe > : they exist now. Once microfilming was done, the originals were > : destroyed. Having been printed on cheap paper, they were not meant to > : survive and would probably have fallen to dust by now anyway. The > : Hazleton newspaper being printed in JAN 1887 was the Daily Sentinel. It > : is available on microfilm in at least two locations I that I know: the > : Hazleton Public Library and the Luzerne Co. Historical Society in > : Wilkes-Barre. There was also a mining journal for the Hazleton area > : called The Colliery Engineer, which can be found op microfilm at the > : Hazleton library. The holdings are short, covering only 2 JAN 1886 to > : AUG 1887. I don't know where else any of these may be available, but > : it's about time that Ancestry adds some of the newspapers of NE > : Pennsylvania to their database. > : > : Best wishes, > : > : Doug Nicol > : > : Norman D. Nicol, Ph.D. > : Professional Genealogist/Family Historian > : Specializing in NE Pennsylvania, England, esp. Cornwall, and Scotland > : > : ------------------------------- > : To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PALUZERN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > : > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PALUZERN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message