Does anyone know of a source for news articles from Virginia, particularly Franklin and surrounding counties around the time of 1840-1900. I have heard that Franklin County had a newspaper (Tribune, I think) but apparently it is so rare, that people only speak of it and no one knows where to find even one copy. I've seen some websites that you have to pay to access, which is fine if they are good quality, but I wondered if anyone else had had any experience with this or could guide me a little. Thanks so much for your help, Sheila Rigney Harris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
If you're talking about "newsbank" I haven't seen anything like that. I have access to it, but only because I have a library card. Google has a feature that will allow you to search old archived stuff,. http://news.google.com/archivesearch. I searched the years you were talking about, and so far have only found articles done mostly by the New York Times. However, it's still a neat source. (: Jen S Rigney wrote: > Does anyone know of a source for news articles from Virginia, particularly Franklin and surrounding counties around the time of 1840-1900. I have heard that Franklin County had a newspaper (Tribune, I think) but apparently it is so rare, that people only speak of it and no one knows where to find even one copy. > > I've seen some websites that you have to pay to access, which is fine if they are good quality, but I wondered if anyone else had had any experience with this or could guide me a little. > > Thanks so much for your help, > Sheila Rigney Harris > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 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 > >
Sheila, I've had some luck with http://www.newspaperarchive.com For Virginia, it has only Richmond, Danville, and Petersburg newspapers from the 1800s and not every year published. They keep adding but I'm often frustrated that they have no papers from some of the towns and cities I'm researching.? I haven't researched any of my Virginia lines there.? Good luck. David Lee Jones -----Original Message----- From: S Rigney <sarkyrie@yahoo.com> To: VAFRANKL@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 4:52 am Subject: [VAFRANKL] 19th century newspaper Does anyone know of a source for news articles from Virginia, particularly Franklin and surrounding counties around the time of 1840-1900. I have heard that Franklin County had a newspaper (Tribune, I think) but apparently it is so rare, that people only speak of it and no one knows where to find even one copy. I've seen some websites that you have to pay to access, which is fine if they are good quality, but I wondered if anyone else had had any experience with this or could guide me a little. Thanks so much for your help, Sheila Rigney Harris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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