Dear Friends: There are no copies of newspapers in existence for Franklin County, unless you luck up on a stray page or paper somewhere. The newspaper office burned I believe in the 1940's and there are no papers or microfilm prior to that time. Even in the early copies that are available, the obits. are not what you see today. They were just little notices somewhere in the paper, giving not much more than the name of the deceased. This may be a problem in other areas as well, newspapers weren't what they are today and more than likely no one saw the value of keeping them. You might luck up on some from big towns or cities where a paper was owned by the same company or family and they kept back copies but that is fairly rare. For news you might have to go to the nearest large town and that most likely will not include news of the outlying small towns. Beverly ----- Original Message ----- From: <BSYBUCKS@aol.com> To: <vafrankl@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [VAFRANKL] 19th century newspaper > > In a message dated 4/12/2008 9:21:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > bigwave916@aol.com writes: > > _http://www.newspaperarchive.com_ (http://www.newspaperarchive.com) > > > > Sheila > > I subscribed to _www.newspaperarchive.com_ > (http://www.newspaperarchive.com) > specifically to get data on Franklin Co./Patrick/Henry... no such luck > there; that was last year. Has anyone check with the Libraries in these > counties > ? I need news of the day from around 1899-1905 specifically - > Cooper/Young > Clans. > > John > > > > **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms and advice on AOL Money & > Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolcmp00300000002850) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > The SECOND Sunday in each month will set aside for a "Brick Wall" Roll > Call. Please always put the surname you seek in the subject and tell us > something about your Brick Wall person. > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Search this list's archived messages! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
I have read one copy of the Rocky Mount newspaper from the late 1800's. It was a sole issue at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. There was not much "news, " but it did have a lot of advertisements and poems. LJS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverly Merritt" <beverlym@swva.net> To: <vafrankl@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [VAFRANKL] 19th century newspaper > Dear Friends: > There are no copies of newspapers in existence for Franklin County, > unless > you luck up on a stray page or paper somewhere. The newspaper office > burned > I believe in the 1940's and there are no papers or microfilm prior to that > time. Even in the early copies that are available, the obits. are not > what > you see today. They were just little notices somewhere in the paper, > giving not much more than the name of the deceased. > > This may be a problem in other areas as well, newspapers weren't what they > are today and more than likely no one saw the value of keeping them. You > might luck up on some from big towns or cities where a paper was owned by > the same company or family and they kept back copies but that is fairly > rare. For news you might have to go to the nearest large town and that > most > likely will not include news of the outlying small towns. Beverly > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <BSYBUCKS@aol.com> > To: <vafrankl@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 11:49 AM > Subject: Re: [VAFRANKL] 19th century newspaper > > >> >> In a message dated 4/12/2008 9:21:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, >> bigwave916@aol.com writes: >> >> _http://www.newspaperarchive.com_ (http://www.newspaperarchive.com) >> >> >> >> Sheila >> >> I subscribed to _www.newspaperarchive.com_ >> (http://www.newspaperarchive.com) >> specifically to get data on Franklin Co./Patrick/Henry... no such luck >> there; that was last year. Has anyone check with the Libraries in these >> counties >> ? I need news of the day from around 1899-1905 specifically - >> Cooper/Young >> Clans. >> >> John >> >> >> >> **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms and advice on AOL Money & >> Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolcmp00300000002850) >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> The SECOND Sunday in each month will set aside for a "Brick Wall" Roll >> Call. Please always put the surname you seek in the subject and tell us >> something about your Brick Wall person. >> To contact Listowner: >> Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Search this list's archived messages! >> http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> VAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > The SECOND Sunday in each month will set aside for a "Brick Wall" Roll > Call. Please always put the surname you seek in the subject and tell us > something about your Brick Wall person. > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Search this list's archived messages! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message