Joan, I have a question. Was the Wood County Reporter a newspaper or a business directory. And do you know what years it was available? Thanks, Sue _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

>From WIWOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com Sat Jan 27 17:50:59 2001 Resent-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:50:17 -0800 X-Original-Sender: anchor775@hotmail.com Sat Jan 27 15:50:17 2001 X-Originating-IP: [207.153.175.18] From: "Susan Langus" <anchor775@hotmail.com> Old-To: WIWOOD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WIWOOD] Wood County Reporter question Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:50:16 -0800 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Jan 2001 23:50:16.0640 (UTC) FILETIME=[E60F5400:01C088BB] To: WIWOOD-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: WIWOOD-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: WIWOOD-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <WIWOOD-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/921 X-Loop: WIWOOD-L@rootsweb.com Resent-Sender: WIWOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com Joan, I have a question. Was the Wood County Reporter a newspaper or a business directory. And do you know what years it was available? Thanks, Sue Sue, You ask good questions that others will probably also ask, so I'll answer your question on the mailing list. The Wood County Reporter was a newspaper, but it had a feature called the business directory in early issues. The Feb 17, 1858 issue, and many successive issues, carried a "business directory" on the back page (page 4) of local businessmen who paid the annual insertion fee so their business card would be printed with each issue in this space. McMillan Library's genealogy web page lists the South Wood County newspapers preserved on microfilm at http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/mcm/ref/local_genealogy.html The Feb 17, 1858 issue that I indexed and placed in the Wood County WI rootsweb archives with MAK's help is presently the earliest Wood County Reporter preserved on microfilm, but occasionally additional issues of old newspapers are found and then microfilmed by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. If you ever come across some old newspapers while cleaning an attic, old trunk, etc, PLEASE contact your state's historical society before throwing them away. I recently was handed some 1970's vintage Nekoosa Port Edwards newspapers, and they will soon be preservation microfilmed and returned to their owner. Don't let newspapers end up on the dust heap of time before making sure they are preserved...future genealogists will thank you. Joan M. Benner, Golden Rule Genealogy Member, Association of Professional Genealogists and Rootsweb Sponsor Friendly Professional Research, Guided by the Golden Rule Specializing in Central Wisconsin Records P.O. Box 1559, Wisconsin Rapids WI 54495-1559 or for more information, http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/resource/r-joanb.htm Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.