You can rent newspapers on film from the PA State library via interlibrary loan. Go to this site to explore & then take the info to your local library - http://pilot.sshe.edu:8020/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First I use "subject heading search" & then enter newspapers Pennsylvania Northumberland Sue Marcus In a message dated 2/8/04 5:11:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, MPHolsinger@aol.com writes: > > I hope that at least one or more of you who are regulars on this mailing > > list will be able to make a suggestion or two to help me, a new subscriber. > After a good many years running down tons of family members in the upper > > South, I have only recently turned to another branch of my family and, when > I > did so, was surprised to discover that supposedly a great-grandfather who > was > born and lived as a younger man in Maryland, William H. Spies, a railroader, > > was not only stationed in Sunbury from at least 1872 until his death in 1879 > > (all three of his children supposedly were born there during that period) > but, > again according to family tradition, that he died in the region as a result > of > a train accident on April 15, 1879. > It looks to me that death records in the county for that period are > sketchy, at best, and I can't tell if I will be able to access any > newspapers from > the area way out here in central Illinois where I live or not. > If anyone has any suggestions how I might proceed to find information > about what might have happened back in 1879, how my great-grandfather might > have > died, and, indeed, where he could be buried--I assume his grave is in the > Sunbury area but I am not sure--I would be most grateful. > Many thanks, > > M. Paul Holsinger > >