An article in the Intermountain Jewish News, posted on the DU Web site today, tells the tale of a Fairmount Cemetery mystery. The author of the article asks that any descendant of Hyman and Adolph Shapiro contact the newspaper.
Check it out at The mystery of the dislocated grave.
Julie Miller’s monthly column is in the 11 January 2009 edition of the Broomfield Enterprise. The January column is Genealogy on the cheap. Julie gives some suggestions about how to lower costs when researching your family.
A story in The Sacramento Bee is about the Manning family Bible that was left in Denver years ago and bought by a Wyoming woman at an estate sale. Read how the Bible was returned to the Manning family in California at Long Road home for family Bible.
Julie Miller’s monthly column is in the 14 December 2008 edition of the Broomfield Enterprise. The December column is Passing down holiday traditions.
The Special Collections Staff at Penrose Library, Colorado Springs celebrated the 500,000th index entry into the Pikes Peak NewsFinder at a reception on Monday, 8 December 2008. Special Collections volunteer, Melba Mayall, had the honor of entering the index record marking the milestone.
Pikes Peak NewsFinder is one of the largest, free to access, newspaper indexes available on the Internet and has half-a-million citations to local news articles and obituaries for newspapers of the Pikes Peak Region, some dating back to the 1870s.
Indexing the Colorado Springs Gazette is an ongoing project of Special Collections in the 1905 Carnegie Library. Dozens of Pikes Peak Library District staff, members of the Pikes Peak Genealogical Society and other dedicated volunteers have contributed to this online resource over the years.
Newspapers indexed in Pikes Peak NewsFinder include the: Colorado City Iris, Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph, Colorado Springs Gazette, Colorado Springs Sun, Fountain Valley News, Free Press, El Paso County Democrat, Out West, and Security Advertiser. Many of the citations link directly to the full-text of the article. Those not currently linked can be ordered, free of charge, directly from the index.
Thanks to Gordon Gray for sending us this item.