[Genealib] Newspaperarchive.com

[Mara Munroe]

Folks, 

At one point Newspaperarchive.com was offering libraries a free
subscription to newspapers *outside* your own state.  We pay, as they
cover many years of our longest running local paper.  One issue I have
is that you can do the same search two days apart--or even refine your
search by expanding the coverage dates--and not get the same results.
So we use it, but don't consider it definitive. 

Remember also that it depends on OCR, and some advertising typefaces
just don't come through.  On the other hand, our old 3 x 5 card index
(started as a WPA project!) didn't do ads at all.  And we indexed
events, but not all the names mentioned, so it can be very helpful.
Unless, of course, you search a name which to too common.   The paper
file leads you straight to the 50th anniversary of the Pastor's
ordination; newspaperarchive gives you every wedding and funeral he
presided at!

My grandma was the small-town stringer for the Hampton (Iowa) Chronicle
in the late 1950s.  I can find every time we drove up for Sunday dinner!

Mara B. Munroe
Local and Family History Librarian
Oshkosh Public Library
Oshkosh WI 54901-4985

"History is where the evidence leads us; heritage is what we choose to
remember and celebrate."  Edward T. Linenthal, May 2005

-----Original Message-----
From: genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
[mailto:genealib-bounces at mailman.acomp.usf.edu] On Behalf Of Nancy
Maxwell
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:11 PM
To: Librarians Serving Genealogists
Subject: [Genealib] Newspaperarchive.com

Salutations, Listmembers:

Does anyone currently subscribe to newspaperarchive.com? I did find some
discussion on this list from 2004, but since four years have passed, I
wanted to re-inquire. Do they still favor individual subscribers over
institutional ones?

Thank you,


Nancy Maxwell, Genealogy Librarian
Frances Pittman Malcolm Genealogy Room
Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, TX 76051
Voice: 817-410-3429
Fax: 817-410-3084
E-mail: nmaxwell at grapevinetexas.gov
 
"Any nation, race, or people who ignores its past and becomes callous
toward its traditions and indifferent toward its heritage will sooner or
later vanish from the face of this earth."  ~Marderos Deranian


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