While indexing obits and marriages from the Norfolk Virginian, I notice something that really started to bother me, especially after going day by day through 40 years of newspaper, one thing was extremely apparent, while in the beginning I thought it was ok, that the main focus of the paper was the City Of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and with the occasional mention of Norfolk County...... I was accepting at first...... but then as other areas of the regions began to get their own columns Berkley, Brambleton, Elizabeth City, Bertie, even Petersburg and Nansemond/Suffolk developed a daily column,. What was my pet peeve? Princess Anne County was completely ignored, unless their was a trial going on, it never had it's own column in over 40 years of newspaper....... While Virginia Beach received an occasional mention, it never had a column either, then I found this: In the Feb 12 1896 Edition of the Norfolk Virginian under BRAMBLETON it says: This branch office has received a copy of the PRINCESS ANNE CHRONICLE a four page sheet of which Messrs. J.E. WEST and Benjamin Rowson are editors and published at Kempsville Va. It is published every Friday and is a newsy and interesting weekly. So my question is Does anyone know if any copies of the Princess Anne Chronicle still exist? My local Library would LOVE to have copies. Kristina _http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaprinc2/_ (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaprinc2/) _http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vanorfol/_ (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vanorfol/) _www.nyvagenealogy.homestead.com_ (http://www.nyvagenealogy.homestead.com/) To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html