[Genealib] NewsBank Obits

[Kemp, Tom]

The obituaries in America's GenealogyBank and America's Obituaries are
updated daily. 

Tell me the name of the person that you are looking for.

 

Tom

 

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[mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Traci
Thompson
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:59 PM
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Cc: thomas.j.kemp at gmail.com
Subject: [Genealib] NewsBank Obits

 

Tom,

 

I have a question for you...what sort of lag time is there between the
time an obit is published in a newspaper and when it appears in the
NewsBank obituaries?

 

We have access to NewsBank through NCLive.  Just yesterday, I was
looking for the obituary (which originally appeared in our local paper,
the Rocky Mount Telegram) of one of our beloved local genealogists who
passed away this past September.  I tried multiple search strategies,
including having another librarian search as well, but could not find
it. 

 

Can you please help me understand why it is not there?  Thank you very
much.

 

Traci Thompson

Local History/Genealogy Librarian

Braswell Memorial Library

Rocky Mount, NC
 

	Hi Sharon.
	They are full-text, in fact the exact text, directly from the
newspapers
	themselves. Most all of the newspapers are "exclusives" with
NewsBank and 
	not available elsewhere. The coverage is so complete that they
capture 80%
	of all published obits each year for the last several years.
	
	Does your library already subscribe?
	
	Tom
	
	
	On 1/9/07, Sharon Centanne < centans at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
	>
	> HI Tom,
	>
	> Thanks for the good news. I have been bugging the folks at
NewsBank to
	> give us old newspapers instead of just modern ones for years. 
	>
	> Are your obits full text or just indexed or abstracted?
	>
	> Thanks!
	> Sharon Troy Centanne
	> Genealogical Research Instructor
	> St. Petersburg, FL
	>
	> Tom Kemp wrote: 
	>
	> Here is an overview of the new content added to America's
GenealogyBank
	>
	> Tom
	>
	> Thomas Jay Kemp
	>
	> Director, Genealogy Products
	>
	> NewsBank Inc.
	>
	> www.NewsBank.com <http://www.newsbank.com/>
	>

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