http://www.parkbooks.com/Html/res_news.html - Finding that Minnesota Newspaper (May 08)
http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Historical_Newspaper_and_Magazine - ALA GODORT index of sites with old newspapers
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 21:18:06 -0400
From: "Debra Braverman" <debraverman@hotmail.com>
Subject: [APG] newspaper subscriptions
To: <APG@rootsweb.com>
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Good evening,
Does anyone have a subscription to NewspaperARCHIVE.com? If so, how would
you say it compares to some of the other subscription services such as
GenealogyBank, Gale databases or ProQuest newspapers in terms of time
periods covered and number of newspapers? I'm finding it difficult to do
that type of comparison. I have a subscription to GenealogyBank and I'm
trying to decide if NewspaperARCHIVE would be useful as well. My impression
is that it has older newspapers than GenealogyBank.
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 18:43:47 -0700
From: "D.L. MacLaughlan-Dumes" <dmac@physics.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: [APG] newspaper subscriptions
I have a subscription to both and find them useful in different ways.
In my experience genealogybank.com has a more extensive historical
newspaper collection, particularly from larger cities, whereas
newspaperarchive.com has more small, regional newspapers, some of
which are not available via ProQuest or Gale.
The interface at genealogybank.com is more user-friendly, though
newspaperarchive.com (occasionally buggy) has improved quite a bit
over the last year with greater flexibility in search options. Their
holdings also continue to grow at an impressive rate. But I find both
resources to be of value in my own research.
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 06:53:46 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
From: doumajk <doumajk@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [APG] newspaper subscriptions
To: debraverman@hotmail.com, APG@rootsweb.com
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DO you know you can search Google New[s] Archive and come up with hits from NewspaperArchive, to get an idea of how usefule it might be to you? I have been working on making a list fo names and dates so when I have access to a subscription, I know who and when to grab.
From: "D.L. MacLaughlan-Dumes" <dmac@physics.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: [APG] newspaper subscriptions
To: APG@rootsweb.com
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On Jul 9, 2008, at 5:29 AM, Brent Morgan wrote:
> I just tried NewspaperArchive at the OGS site. All the hits
> which each search were so badly garbled as to not be of any value.
> Am I
> missing something?
The "abstract" that appears in newspaperarchive.com after a search is
a sampling of terms from the page where your keywords appear. It
requires some skill to learn how to evaluate each abstract to see
whether it's the one that will be most helpful to you. But you can
click on the abstract to launch the actual image of the page, and
usually your particular keywords are highlighted in the image so you
don't have to hunt for it.
The abstract display at genealogybank.com is a lot more sophisticated,
with a mini-image of the paragraph where your search terms appear.
It's a lot more pleasant to use. Often I'll start out with a search
here, then augment with newspaperarchive.com if I need to search
regional papers.
Google's news archive search is also good: from the home page select
News, news archive search, advanced archive search (or just go here: http://news.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search?hl=en)
. Most of the hits require payment, but if you already have a
newspaperarchive.com subscription and if the paper is in their
collection, you can login and view the image without pay. The abstract
in Google news archive is readable and clear, even for papers in the
newspaperarchive.com collection.
A major database supplier of old Newspapers - http://www.readex.com/readex/
