Newspapers are a valuable resource for both local and family historians. Use them to find contemporary accounts of both local and national events; find out how much houses were selling for in the 1920s; what claims did the patent medicines make for miracle cures? For family historians, newspapers can be a source for finding elusive bits of family history, for example, if you are trying to find where an ancestor was buried, and had their date of death, try checking the Deaths notices for the days after the death to see whether the family had put a notice of the funeral in for friends and family. This will often tell you which church the service was taking place in. (See Family History section for details of learning sessions with newspapers) The Leeds Mercury and Leeds Intelligencer are both held on microfilm as far back as their beginnings in the 18th century, along with the Yorkshire Post, Evening Post, Yorkshire Evening News, and many local weeklies, such as Morley Advertiser, Rothwell Times etc. Indexes have been compiled for many of the 20th century papers, and these can now be searched on-line at Leeds Local Index