Deerfield Gravestone Restoration Project

 

"Kai Nalenz, president of Gravestone Services of New England, compares some of his recent restoration work in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Deerfield to photographs of their original state."   Recorder/Micky Bedell

Read the full article here:  Labor of love: Deerfield family completes gravestone restoration project | The Recorder  
By TOM RELIHAN   Recorder Staff

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Searching the Google Newspaper Archives

Currently, Google News search only returns content from the past 30 days. The "advanced web search page" will let you search by date or date range, but only up to 1970.  To search in earlier time periods, you can use site:news.google.com/newspapers xxxxx

For example, I used
site:news.google.com/newspapers Macoupin 1880

and found:

 

 

To see if there is a newspaper covering your area of interest,

check the list of the digitized historical newspapers available

 on Google at  http://news.google.com/newspapers.

If you know the specific time period and place you are searching, you can actually read though individual newspaper issues by choosing a newspaper from the above list and selecting the "Browse this newspaper" tab.

Have fun!

Wednesday's Child: Eva Bell Casteel - Age 2

 

Eva Bell Casteel

daughter of James P. & Arra A. (Bacon) Casteel

 

  U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedule

1880 Macoupin County, Illinois

 

(Click image to enlarge)

Eva is listed on the bottom.

Cause of death: Throat Disease

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Sunday's Obituary: Chris Welcheck (1907-1969)

Christopher L. Welcheck

son of Stephen & Margaret (Busch) Welcheck

Cleveland Plain Dealer

18 Aug 1969

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