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From: Janis L Gilmore <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] Libel in Divorce
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:03:31 -0400
In-Reply-To: <393ff0080809090119g1ca74be0uc3f75a40ef0b0200@mail.gmail.com>


I have done less than no Pennsylvania research. Is it not possible, as in
some other places, that the packets were sent to the PA Archives, where they
might be on microfilm as well as stored as packets?

Janis


On 9/9/08 4:19 AM, "Rondina Muncy" <> wrote:

> Patti,
>
> I have researched four separate court cases in two states for that time
> period and none contained testimony. I don't have the expertise to advise
> you on Pennsylvania cases, but you may have covered all your bases. I would
> just make sure that there is not an extant newspaper for either county or
> the area in general for 1878. Although testimony was missing in one of
> my cases in 1881, the newspapers were giving the case broad daily coverage
> so I was able to find out what the man of the street knew through months of
> testimony.
>
> Rondina


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