The Washington Post online at Ancestry.com only covers years up to about 1924 I think. I am not sure that all of the issues from earlier years are online yet either though I have managed to find a good bit of data on some folks in the 1904-1911 timeframe. Harry > I know Ancestry.com has the Washington Post online (at cost, of course), but > I don't know what years it covers. This is the only index I know of besides > their online index and articles from 1977 to the present which is past what > you are looking for. I have a subscription to it, but have found it quite > tedious to work with since if you mention a full name (first and last name), > it will many times pick up only the first name listed in any article which > could bring more than 100 hits. With my slow connection, this is a > time-consuming process and another subscription I will not renew (I let my > census subscription expire because of all the errors in the D.C. census > pages which I told them about). > > I think you can only search on names too, but I could be wrong in this. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Baclem5656@aol.com [mailto:Baclem5656@aol.com] > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 5:14 PM > To: WashingtonDC-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WashingtonDC'' ] DC Newspaper Articles > > > Could someone tell me if there is any kind of index of articles which might > have appeared in the Washington newspapers between Oct 1927 and September > 1929. I recently received a copy of some reminisences from my mother's > sister in which she gives a good deal of information about the family. > Included in these pages was a story of how my grandmother and grandfather > were coming home from downtown DC to Maryland after 9PM on a Saturday > evening. There were torrential rains, which apparently short circuited the > electric connection to the streetcar and it became stuck in an underpass > where the streetcar lines passed under Kenilworth Ave. The car flooded and > the men (my grandfather included) helped the women climb on top of the car > until help from a nearby fire house arrived. My aunt stated that there was > an article and photograph in the newspaper about the incident. She > mentioned > that my grandmother went back to work after all the children were grown and > all but this aunt and her younger brother had married. My grandmother was > returning home from her employment in the shoe department in Hechts. > Apparently since she worked so late, my grandfather stayed downtown after he > left work at the Western Union Office and waited for her, so my grandmother > wouldn't have to make the late night 1 1/2 mile walk from the streetcar home > by herself. I believe the time period was between Oct 1927 and September > 1929 because my mother married in October 1927 and the aunt who told the > story married in September 1929. > > If there is some type of the index it would make it much easier than > searching the microfilm of the newspapers page by page. > > My aunt wrote these recollections when she was quite old - so she could have > been mistaken in the fact that it occurred on a Saturday. > > Barbara > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >