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My great-grandfather Frank Becker was a fireman. I knew that he had been promoted to captain at some point, and some relatives had once told me they thought it had been covered on TV or in the newspaper.
I wanted to see if I could find a news story about the promotion.
Hey, family history buffs and amateur genealogists in St. Louis County!
Get out your library card, and check out an awesome new resource:
“ProQuest’s Historical St. Louis Post-Dispatch database”:http://0-proquest.umi.com.iii.slcl.org/login?COPT=REJTPTc2ZWMmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=43157
It includes searchable full text and full image articles from 1874 – 1922, though there are some gaps.
This is just one of many helpful databases you can search from the St. Louis County Library’s “genealogy databases page.”:http://www.slcl.org/databases/genealogy.htm All of these databases are free, but some (like Ancestry.com or Footnote.com) require you to search from within a library branch. But this Post-Dispatch database can be searched from home!
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