Diane, your best bet is to check with the nice people at the Karmann Library at UW-Platteville. The Grant Co. website has a list of newspapers they hold on microfilm. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigrant/newsppr.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigrant/wiscroom.htm check here for email link and information about the library. Robin -----Original Message----- From: KinDetective@aol.com [mailto:KinDetective@aol.com] Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 1:11 AM To: WIGRANT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WIGRANT] News Article Origin? 1905 Identify-Find Hi folks, Hope you're all enjoying your summer, and successfully digging many roots. I've a news clipping from a cousin's collection which was likely stored for years in family memorabilia, fading and smudging, and need to locate the original publication. I was just barely able to enlarge an rtf file of the item and make out what it says. The article has clues about the date from stating the combined ages of four family members in a photo, which is no longer visible on the old clipping. I'd really like to find any available microfilm of the original article, and see if an article accompanied the earlier time the photo appeared in the same publication, as stated to be three years earlier than this one. This photo would be the only place known where I could view an image of this direct ancestor, and I'm eager to share it with others who descend from her. From my estimations on birth dates of who I believe is profiled in the article, the publication was between August and September of 1905 in southern Grant County, WI. I viewed sources to find that two suspect Newspapers, The Grant County Witness, and The Platteville Journal have some overlapping dates of publication. I more suspect the later, as the title of the article was "Five Highly Respected Residents of This Vicinity." The article speaks of residents of Cuba (City) and Platteville. Any ideas on which one (or another?) is likely to be the culprit, and the best way to narrow down my search and obtain a film or other copy of the original? Has anyone experience with ILL...details? I'd also like to check both mentioned papers to follow up on obit source notations, and view a complete one of which I've a clipping with missing mid section, ca. 1928 P'ville Journal. Thanks for any help!---Diane ============================== 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