flipper Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 Someone I met has ~40 years of Houston Post microfilm and a reader they want to give away.Lemme know if you want it.flipper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 i'll take it - i'll PM you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmariar Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 Of all the mornings to have been in jury duty! Sev will be a good custodian, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theoriginalkj Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 i'll take it - i'll PM youI would love to be able to peruse some of that material if you obtain it. Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Following a tip in the local newspaper, I found a site operated by UNT called "Portal to Texas History" with lots of newspaper archives, including many from small towns. It sadly did not have the Bryan Daily Eagle, but did have late 1800s/early 1900s http://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?q=houston+post&fq=dc_type%3Atext_newspaper&t=fulltext&start=0&fq=str_title_serial%3AThe+Houston+Daily+Post'>copies of Houston Daily Post. What do you think? I think it's pretty cool, though I'd prefer to see something from post-WWII (as that was when Houston took off) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totheskies Posted March 22, 2013 Share Posted March 22, 2013 This is very cool!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonhart Posted March 24, 2013 Share Posted March 24, 2013 ditto, very cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 The Portal is an awesome resource - I'd expect to see more and more from it since they offer fairly reasonable digitization programs to libraries that want to collaborate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) I can offer personal testimony that this website can be very useful in searching out family histories. My paternal great great grandfather died in Austin County in the late 1860s, and I had been scouring the Internet for anything I could find about him.  One day, after Googling his name and various combinations of his widow's name and where they lived, a link to this Portal of Texas History website turned up and you won't believe what I found. It was a link to the Legal Notices Page in the April 1869 edition of the Hempstead Texas newspaper The Texas Countryman. It was a notice setting a date for probating my ancestor's estate, and dividing it between his widow and surviving heirs, all of whom are named in the notice. It had an added bonus of naming an ancestor I didn't know I had - a child who was my grandfather's half sister. It blew me away. To illustrate how this helped me, I am providing a link to the notice to show the phenomenal amount of information I was able to glean from it. http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180339/m1/2/zoom/?zoom=5&lat=3551&lon=4308.5&layers=BT Based on my experience, I highly recommend using this site in family history searches. Edited March 28, 2013 by FilioScotia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Wish this was a higher resolution scan so I could actually see what it says. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) Maybe it's your screen settings. It reads fine on mine. Click on "View" and increase the size of the text. Also, the webpage itself allows you to zoom in on the text, Just like the maps on Google Maps. Edited March 28, 2013 by FilioScotia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etheriemma Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Thanks for the link to the archive! Â Â It would be awesome if they would put the local Houston papers after 1945 online. Â After WW2 is when many new subdivisions were created. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NenaE Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 I've used the Portal to Texas History for quite a while. It's a great site for research. Hadn't seen this, though. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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