Newspaper Notices of Marriages and Deaths Found in the Columbia Democrat, Columbian, and Columbia County Republican

Several years ago members of the Central Susquehanna Genealogical Society compiled a card index of marriages and deaths recorded in three nineteenth century newspapers, Columbia Democrat, Columbian, and Columbia County Republican, published in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.  Since the microfilm copies of these three newspapers are part of the Bloomsburg University Andruss Library collection, this genealogy resource index file was kept there.  Many, many thanks to Steve Wiist, a member of the Columbia County Historical and Genealogical Society, for all of his work, countless number of hours, of entering the information from the cards into this database, amounting to 12,626 name entries.  The information in the database includes the individual’s name, the newspaper name along with date, page, and column where name appeared, and whether or it was a marriage or a death notice.

The following list only identifies the various time periods in which marriage and death notices were recorded on the index cards from these three newspapers. This database is not a definitive enumeration of all the notices of marriages and deaths that appeared in the time period that the newspapers were published.

COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT 1830: March & June 1831: March & September 1837: April – December 1838: January – December 1839: January – April & June- December 1840: January – December 1841: January – April 1842: April – December 1843: January – April & August 1844: May – June & December 1845: January – December 1846: January – December 1847: January – March 1848: July & October 1849: January – December 1857: March – December 1858: January – March 1859: October 1860: March – December 1861: January – December 1862: January – December 1863: January – December 1864: January – May & September 1865: February

COLUMBIAN 1866: September – December 1867: February – June & August – December 1868: January – December 1869: January – December 1870: January – December 1871: January – December 1872: January – December 1873: June 1875: January – December 1876: January – December 1877: January – December 1878: January – December 1879: January – December 1880: January – December 1881: January – December 1882: January – December 1883: January – December 1884: January – December 1885: January – December 1886: January – July & September – December 1887: January & March – December 1888: January – April, June – August & October – December 1889: January – February, May, & July - August 1890: January – December 1891: January – December 1892: April 1893: January – December 1894: January – December 1895: January – December 1896: January – February & July 1898: January

COLUMBIA COUNTY REPUBLICAN 1877: January & August – December 1878: January – December 1879: January – May & October – December 1880: January – February & November