Read All About Your Ancestors – in the Newspaper

Within the last 24 hours, Jeff Bockman posted an article titled, Extra, Extra, Read All About Your Orting Oracle - From Leland Meitzler's collectionAncestors, on his website. The article details the kinds of things you might find when searching the papers for your people. And as you know, searching newspapers gets easier, faster, and with more extensive coverage on a daily basis.

Jeff writes of where you can find articles – everything from home sources to newspaper repositories and electronic databases. He then goes on to explain how to actually locate those papers which might include your ancestors.

The article was originally published in Heritage Quest Magazine in the Jul/Aug 2003 issue. Jeff brought it up to date for his website edition.

Check it out.

All of Jeff’s articles are available at: www.JeffBockman.com/gatj

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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