On Jun 24, 2009, at 11:04 PM, Marilyn Nevala wrote: > ...websites (free or paid) where Philadelphia area > newspapers can be searched...1890 to 1970? The Phila. Inquirer is on GenealogyBank up to 1922. Recent obits can be searched on Legacy.com. For everything in between, if you want to do it yourself, you'll have to find somewhere (a library?) near you that has the newspapers on microfilm. (I have no idea where in Idaho you would find the microfilm -- you'd have to research that). Otherwise, you can try the Free Library of Philadelphia (2 lookups at a time, max) or Temple U's Urban Archives (if you're searching for someone who might have been in an article the Bulletin morgue would have preserved in a clipping file). > Also, do obituaries from towns in Montgomery County get put in the > Philadelphia papers? The modern practice is, you give the details to the funeral director, who sends it to the papers. If any paper sees some detail that makes them think the deceased is someone they'd like to write a longer obit about, they contact the family for an interview. So, no, a MontCo paper's obit (i.e., a local news story written by their reporter) would not appear in another paper. And generally, if someone lived in MontCo, the Phila. papers wouldn't put in a full obit for them unless they were someone very prominent. > ...is there > a local paper for say, Ardmore, that might have more information? You could try the Delaware Co. Times, assuming you mean Ardmore in DelCo. There's also an Ardmore in MontgCo; if that's the one you mean, maybe the TimesHerald. Try this for online PA newspapers -- http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ usstate/uspennsy.htm . HTH Claire K [email protected]