From: mike wilson > John Graves wrote: > >> Given the number of OT's, I think it ok to add to the mix. Leroy >> Whitter is my great great grandfather and the person for whom my >> Grandfather was named. Although everyone who really know my >> Grandfather called him Roy, a source of great merriment to my >> siblings and cousins. >> >> Leroy Whittier >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhg2/1423880415/ >> >> My brother, who has done an amazing amount of genealogical >> research found the death record in a Boston Paper. The physical >> paper is long gone as it had been microfilmed. > > Just because it has been microfilmed it does not mean that the > original has been destroyed. Even if the philistine newspaper owners > have done it with their copy, I would be suprised if a copy from a > library has gone the same way.
I would be much surprised if the library *did* have a paper copy. Most libraries keep [kept] newspapers for a year at most before committing them to microfilm [CD-ROM or DVD now]. They just don't have enough space to store mountains of newsprint. Plus newsprint doesn't keep well; high acid paper and becomes brittle as hell after just a few years. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
