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The following newspaper titles were recently added to the family history archives found in GenealogyBank.com and ObitsArchive.com. They recently added more than 104 newspapers from 35 states - over 130 million new articles.
ObitsArchive.com
NEW CONTENT: (1977 to present day)
CA-Mammoth Times
CO-Montrose Daily Press, The
CT-New Canaan News-Review
CT-Ridgefield Press, The
FL-Hernando Today
IA-Daily Democrat, The
ID-Independent Enterprise
IL-Macomb Journal
IL-Voice, The
IN-Indianapolis Recorder, The
IN-Pilot-News
MI-Shelby-Utica News
NC-Stanly [...]

I got a note from my friend, Tom Kemp, this morning, apprising me of the fact that GenealogyBank.com is now up to over 280 African-American newspapers in their online offerings. The following is from the website:
This fully searchable and expanding collection of newspapers provides details about the daily lives of millions of African [...]

Tom Kemp just posted a blog with a copy of Michael Jackson’s Social Security Death Index info. GenealogyBank already has the data up, as they update their SS Death Index every week.
The data from GenealogyBank’s Database is as follows:
Social Security Death Index
Name: Michael Joseph Jackson
Date of Birth: Friday August 29, 1958
Date [...]

Tom Kemp is reporting the passing of genealogist Linda Fay Kaufman, on his GenealogyBank blog. “She put her family history research online and actively corresponded with genealogists across the country. A search of the genealogy lists shows her posts as recently as the last few months.”
Read Ms. Kaufman’s obituary on the GenealogyBank blog website.

The following digitized newspapers are either available or planned at GenealogyBank.com
According to Tom’s entry today at the GenealogyBank Blog, “in the months ahead GenealogyBank will be expanding it’s coverage of 9 newspapers from 9 states.”
The dates of this planned coverage follow each of the titles below. The second date is what is [...]

The folks at Readex (a division of NewsBank - the people that bring you GenealogyBank) are making a package of (initially) nine digitized historic newspapers available. The package will be called American Newspaper Archives. It looks to me like new product is packaged specifically for the college market - to be used by students & [...]

Tom Kemp, with GenealogyBank, just sent me a list of exciting new changes that have been made to the search capabilities in the Historic Newspaper Collection at GenealogyBank.
The new search allows the following that we could not do before:

Limit search to most recently added content
Search multiple states at once
Search multiple cities (Click on [...]

The following announcement was released today by GenealogyBank. It seems they have added another 170 newspapers to their collection, with the total number of records posted since 2006 now estimated to be about 93 million. GenealogyBank is one of my favorite websites. It’s one that I consider a must-have in online genealogy subscription sites.
Following the [...]

I had the privilege and opportunity to try out the new GenealogyBank.com just as it launched in mid-October. In the process I searched many early newspapers, historic books, documents, and other resources.
Along with numerous other items, I found a letter written by my third great grandfather, William Canfield - the first thing I’ve ever seen [...]