In a message dated 4/27/06 9:05:10, PAPHILAD-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << My hope is to plan a trip to look up newspaper articles/notices from the early 1800s through the mid-1900s. I know I can find death notices or obits, but what about birth notices or marriage notices? >> Some marriages are indexed in the Public Ledger indexes from about 1830 to 1870 more or less. Milton E. Botwinick [professional genealogist] botwinick@aol.com botwinick@alumni.rowan.edu MEBotwinick@alumni.temple.edu http://hometown.aol.com/botwinick/myhomepage/index.html