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DATABASE CONTAINING MARRIAGE NOTICES IN THE

BLOOMSBURG JOURNAL AND CATAWISSA NEWS ITEM

The Bloomsburg Journal started by G. A. Potter in 1876 was a weekly temperance newspaper consisting of four pages and later expanded to twelve pages in 1881. It ceased publication in 1887 in Bloomsburg and moved to Millville to become the Weekly Tablet.

To find a marriage announcement having the names of the groom and the bride, enter the name of either the groom or bride in the "search box." If that individual’s marriage announcement appeared in one of the newspapers, the following information may be available depending on what content was included:

Name of Groom: last, first, & middle

Groom Residence

Name of Bride: last, first, & middle

Groom Residence

Listed below are the dates of the 137 marriage announcements indexed in the Bloomsburg Journal.

	1880 Jan. 8 – 1880 Mar. 31
	1880 May 5 – 1880 Dec. 29
	1881 Jan. 5 – 1881 Dec. 21
	1882 Jan. 4 – 1882 Mar. 22
	1882 May 3 – 1882 July 19
	1882 Aug. 23
	1882 Sept. 20 – 1882 Sept. 27

G. E. Myers started the Catawissa News Item, a weekly newspaper, with the first issue on May 16, 1878.

There are 1,199 marriage announcements indexed in the Catawissa News Item in the dates listed below. In some of the months marriage announcements did not appear in every issue for that month or issues were missing.

	1879 January – August
	1879 October – December
	1880 January, March – May & November
	1882 May – December
	1883 January – December
	1884 January – April
	1885 March & May – December
	1888 January – April
	1889 May – December
	1890 January – April
	1892 February – March, June & August
	1895 April – December
	1896 January – April & November
	1897 January
	1906 June
	1907 December
	1908 April – December
	1909 January – December
	1910 January – March
	1912 January – March
	1916 March – December
	1917 January – December
	1918 January – March & November

The Society is very appreciative of the work that Stephen Wiist did in compiling and entering all the information for this database. He is a member of the Society’s Board of Directors.

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