Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Old Stock Certificates

Yesterday, Sarah Landeryou and Andy assisted a patron who was looking for historical stock values. She had an old stock certificate and needed the value for a specific date (over ten years ago). Sarah found a useful source for this info -- she's going to post it.

Coincidentally, I came across a link to a site that provides a guide for people who have old stock certificates and are trying to figure out if they are worth anything. Here's the link:
http://www.prattlibrary.org/locations/bst/index.aspx?id=3030&mark=stock

2 comments:

reference desk said...

Here's another link...
This is an article from the Business Reference section of RUSA that takes you step-by-step through the process of finding historical stock quotes.

http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/brass/brasspubs/publibbrief/no16march2007.cfm

reference desk said...

Here's the link for a great site for stock quotes...
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/

Go To Historical at the top menu bar to get older quotes.

--Sarah