This is in response to a recent message on Va-Roots about how to identify titles of newspapers for Virginia localities, but this is also a topic of frequent interest for Va-Hist subscribers, too. There is a nifty online database that lists all of the Virginia newspapers that exist in original copies or microforms at four of the state's principal libraries. It is found on the Library of Virginia's Web site at http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/vnp/ It will allow you to search by county and by city and town names to identify newspapers for which copies are available, and it also allows you see an item-level listing of which copies of which newspapers are available where. For example, the July 4, 1976, issue of the Smalltown Blast. To reach that site, you can begin at the library's Home page, click open the Site Index in the lower left corner, click open the letter N in the alphabet, click open the Newspapers Home Page, and then click open Newspapers in Virginia Bibliography. Brent Tarter The Library of Virginia [log in to unmask] Please visit the Library of Virginia's Web site at http://www.lva.virginia.gov ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html