Digital Newspapers May Index Unindexed Court Records

An occasionally overlooked item in old newspapers are legal notices. Newspapers that have been digitized and indexed are a great way to find out about these records. Court records are still largely unindexed, but if all plaintiffs' and defendants' names appear in the newspaper notice, they'll be indexed. Court records are typically only indexed by the name of the first plaintiff and defendant.

The court indexes to records in this county doesn't contain an index entry for Neill--as it's not the name of the first defendant or first plaintiff.

Search for old newspapers at:

• GenealogyBank
• American Memory Collection at Library of Congress
• and other sites as well--Miriam Robbins has a great list