This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ncB.2ACE/1470.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Although the Press and Standard ran from about 1873 up, there is a large number of early years missing from the Colleton Library Collection. More than 10 years. Going on memory here, ca. 1874-1881, possibly more. Those were just the years I was particularly interested in. It was stated that someone "threw away a bunch of archives they didn't think were important". So if you don't find the names of your family in the index it doesn't mean they didn't have an obit, etc. it could be a missing paper. I don't know if the South Carolina Library in Columbia has these missing records but would be interested to know. -Bev