[Genealib] Access Newspaper ARCHIVE through Heritage Microfilm

[Elaine Hayes]

Our library recieved an advertisement from Heritage Microfilm regarding
FREE access to a database called Access Newspaper ARCHIVE to public
libraries and K-12 schools.  The letter says that the ARCHIVE "allows
your library's patrons to search tens of millions of newspaper pages in
our achive for FREE"  and that it "provides... Full-page newspapers from
1759-1977".  This sounds too good to be true.  Do any of you have
familiarity with this product?  Also if you are interested you can check
it out at http://access.newspaperarchive.com.  I suspect that the
newspapers and not "full text" and probably only include historic
information and not obituaries (except of the famous) or information
about the daily lives of people who might have been our ancestors
(unless they were famous).  In which case it might be great for general
reference but not so good for Genealogy information.  Also is there some
kind of a "catch" involved - nothing is ever really free is it?
Thanks,
Elaine Hayes
 
Elaine Jones Hayes
Special Collections Librarian
Laramie County Library System
2800 Central Avenue
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001
ehayes at lclsonline.org
307-634-3561
 
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