Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:11:00 -0400
From: RC Dowd <rdowd@MAIL.NYSED.GOV>
Subject: Re: Any free online indexes to 19th century newspapers?

This is clearly a "hit and miss" situation at present.  More will
become available as more money and time are spent -- and as more
microfilm makes access to content a higher priority than is right
now the preservation.

See: <http://www.scpl.org/vitalrecords/> for an example of an in-
progress (manual) index of some Schenectady County (N.Y.) papers,
obits only at this juncture.

Bob Dowd
New York State Library