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Newspaper Research: The Newspaper as a Genealogy Resource(Suzanne Young Brayer)sybrayer@gmailcom 1 Feb 2019Resource List – Lessons, searching tips and webinarsAllen County Public Library - Hunt - ’sList – Newspapers - – Tracing Immigrants Arrival in Newspapers - Wiki – Old NewspapersFinding Newspaper Records - – Use Newspapers Archives by Lisa Louise Cooke ? Blog Archives - Historical Newspapers - Rural West Initiative - Ancestor Hunt - Tube Videos – Search for “newspaper genealogy research”Online Newspaper Sources – digitized papersChronicling America - - $$Library of Congress National Digital Newspaper Program - - $$Old Fulton PostCards - ’t be fooled, this has nothing to do with postcardsProQuest - Town Papers - Newspaper Sites(Many states have a Digital Newspaper Program – Google the state and Digital Newspaper Program)Arizona Digital Newspaper Program - Boston Pilot 1831-1920 Digital Newspaper Program - Maryland State Archives Special Collections- Free Press - York - Digital Newspaper Program - TipsUse “advanced Search”Broaden the search from surnameInclude occupation, address, lodge, military unit, business name, hobby Include date rangeLimit search to particular newspaper or townSmall towns have more of interestSearch with boolean operatorsLook for OCR errors – “a” instead of “o”Deliberately misspell the nameWhen browsing look for index; determine layout of the paper ................
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