“Newspapers are genealogy’s ‘hottest’ record group today and Cooke’s engaging writing teamed with helpful worksheets makes searching for them much easier.” The above is just one of many positive comments given about Lisa Louise Cooke’s book Everything You Need to Know About… How to Find Your Family History in Newspapers. This book is a step-by-step [...]
The Petersburg, Alaska Public Library has posted several early newspapers online in their Digital Archives. The following papers are currently available for searching online: Petersburg Weekly Report (2226) Petersburg Press (1298) The Petersburg Herald (610) The Progressive (388) The dates of items currently posted are from 1913 through 1931. According to an article posted at [...]
Fifty-six years ago last month, a daughter was reunited with her father who she hadn’t seen for 43 years – not since she was less than 5 years old. That daughter was my mother, nee Virginia Cornett Feller. I was reminded of the reunion while searching for Meitzlers at Newspapers.com last evening. The event is [...]
I see that my old employer, ProQuest, is taking on the global distribution of NewspaperArchive.com to libraries and institutions. ANN ARBOR — Ann Arbor-based ProQuest announce Monday that it is expanding its selection of historical news content as the global distributor to libraries and other institutions for NewspaperArchive.com, a 130 million-page database that captures coverage [...]
There’s an excellent article about Tom Tryniski’s Fultonhistory.com website posted at the March 5, 2013 edition of reason.com. Fultonhistory.com is one of my very favorite websites – one that has allowed me to gather all kinds of interesting information about my Meitzler families in New York State. Currently, I get 754 hits on the name [...]
Mary Harrell-Sesniak wrote an excellent article for the GenealogyBank blog, posted On February 11, 2013. She deals with a number of terms that are often seen but may not be understood. Following is a list of terms that she explained in detail – with examples: Communicated (often abbreviated Com.) Requests to Insert Mastheads Banns or [...]
The National Library of Australia has posted a list of newspapers that will be digitized and made available during the year. According to their website, “Multiple titles may be processed and made available at any given time. Dates of when specific issues will be available unfortunately cannot be provided.” I counted about 170 titles in [...]
“Newspapers are genealogy’s ‘hottest’ record group today and Cooke’s engaging writing teamed with helpful worksheets makes searching for them much easier.” The above is just one of many positive comments given about Lisa Louise Cooke’s book Everything You Need to Know About… How to Find Your Family History in Newspapers. This book is a step-by-step [...]
The following News Release is from Elizabeth Zwerin: Collection includes more than 6 million pages with original images LOS ANGELES (Feb. 6, 2013) – Findmypast.com, an international leader in online family history, today announced the addition of more than 6 million pages from British newspapers, including original images, to its extensive historical records collection. The [...]
Press Release as issued by The British Newspaper Archive: Online newspaper archive celebrates its first birthday The British Newspaper Archive reaches the 6 million page mark on its first birthday The British Newspaper Archive celebrates its first birthday today, as it reaches the 6 million page milestone. With a target of 40 million fully-searchable pages [...]
The following was just released from Ancestry.com: ANCESTRY.COM LAUNCHES NEW WEB SITE NEWSPAPERS.COM Online Newspaper Web Site Offers a High-Quality Collection of Digitized and Completely Searchable U.S. Newspapers Dating Back Centuries (PROVO, Utah) – November 29, 2012 – Ancestry.com Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, today announced the launch of Newspapers.com, [...]
The following article was written by my good friend, William Dollarhide. Enjoy… That first pedigree chart usually shows up to four generations, sometimes more, but if a 4-generation chart starts with yourself, there are up to fourteen direct ancestors presented. How many documents have you collected for each of those fourteen persons? How many have [...]
Newspapers are a remarkable genealogical resource. Even before societies developed a system of daily news, criers would walk the streets “announcing births, deaths, marriages and divorces.” (History of Newspapers by Mitchell Stephens) The first daily handwritten news sheets can be traced to the Romans who began the practice around 59 B.C. The Chinese had government [...]
The following excerpt is from the October 31, 2012 edition of DurhamRegion.com: WHITBY [Ontario]: Researchers, students, genealogists and members of the public now have access to historical Whitby newspapers through an online database offered by the Whitby Public Library. Complete issues are available for the Whitby Gazette (1862-1912), Whitby Chronicle (1857-1912), Whitby Gazette and Chronicle [...]
The following excerpt is from the October 22, 2012 edtion of The Washington Post. WASHINGTON — An effort to digitize the nation’s historically significant newspapers is posting its 5 millionth page on a free searchable database online. As of Monday, the Chronicling America project has posted 5 million pages from more than 800 newspapers in [...]
