[Genealib] Access Newspaper ARCHIVE through Heritage Microfilm

[Kelly Swartz]

Elaine (and others on the List):

Wow - this does look too good to be true. Is there a catch? I see that
they have a line on the request form that says "content within your
State and newspapers after 1977 are only available by upgrading your
service to Access NewspaperARCHIVE Pro". Does this mean that you will
need a "pay" subscription to get newspapers from your own State and for
after 1977 for all papers?  Has anyone else had this subscription and/or
the upgrade? 

I was looking seriously at ProQuest's new Obituary Index database,
which is quite costly. Maybe this is something we should look into
instead?  Does anyone know for sure if there are obituaries on this
"free" database by Heritage Microfilm? 

Kelly Swartz

Kelly Swartz
Local History & Genealogy Collection
Public Libraries of Saginaw
505 Janes Ave.
Saginaw, MI   48607
(989)  755-9827

>>> ehayes at lclsonline.org 8/3/2006 5:58 pm >>>
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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