I was looking for some newspapers at the UVA- Alderman. I found only about 5, even of Charlottesville back to this date. And then they were just portions. I don't want to dissuade you from looking for Louisa papers there, but I didn't find any. Dee Randall ----- Original Message ----- From: Janice and Tom Abercrombie <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: November 23, 1999 9:06 AM Subject: [VALOUISA-L] Courthouse & newspapers reply > The clerks office will be open the Friday after Thanksgiving. > The best places to look for newspapers of the early 1800s pretaining > to Louisa Co. people would be The Virginia Historical Society, Alderman > Library at UVA and the Library of Virginia. It requires a lot of > digging. The local newspaper here now has copies going back to the > 1940s. > I don't know of any collection that has a complete run of papers > earlier, just scattered papers. Dr. Hodge at Germanna made an index to > some Fredericksburg papers which might have Louisa news in them. I > haven't studied them. Janice > > ______________________________