Old Birth Announcements?
Your best bet would be http://www.NewspaperArchive.com. They have newspapers from like 1752 to the present. Also, http://www.ancestry.com has this database: ” Newspapers and periodicals” are the diaries of local communities. They are excellent sources of family history details – often recorded nowhere else. Look for obituaries, marriages, legal notices, and more found in our Historical Newspaper Archives.” They also have “Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1850-2003”, and newspapers from the Abilene Morning News (Abilene, Texas) to the Zanesville Times Signal (Zanesville, Ohio)–where you put in their first and last name, the date you are looking for, and put in the keywords something like “Birth announcement”. Ancestry has a free 2 week membership trial (you have to enter credit card info, so BE SURE to CANCEL it on the 13th day, or you will be