READ ALL ABOUT IT! NEWSPAPERS IN FAMILY HISTORY FAMILY HISTORY UPDATE SERIES Wednesday 2011-01-05 1-2:30 PM Morningside Stake Relief Society Room Copyright 2011 by Donald R. Snow
This page was last updated 2011-01-04.
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INTRODUCTION

• Instructors are Donald R. and Diane M. Snow ( snowd@math.byu.edu and dms34@juno.com ) of Provo and St. George, Utah
• What this FH Update Series is all about
• This Class Handout, as well as the full Class Notes, are posted with active Internet links on the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group website given above or go to it directly at http://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html .
• If interested, print yourself a copy of the several-page detailed full Class Notes.

WHY NEWSPAPERS ARE IMPORTANT IN FAMILY HISTORY [More details in the online notes]

• What life was like
• Family history data
• Leads to other types of records
• Types of newspaper entries - birth, marriage, death notices and obituaries; news articles; society info; legal and public notices and ads; school news; military info

EXAMPLES

• Death notices and obituaries and where they can lead
• Birth announcements
• Marriage announcments
• Society columns
• Local news
• Legal notices
• Public announcements and advertisements
• School news and activities
• Military news

WHERE TO FIND NEWSPAPERS [Many more URL's and details in the full notes]

• Articles about finding and using newspapers - see full notes
• Linkpendium (free) -- http://www.linkpendium.com
• GENUKI (free) -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/
• Library of Congress Digital Collections (free) -- http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
• GenealogyBank (commercial, but can search and see snipets free) -- http://www.genealogybank.com
• Godrey Memorial Library (free at FHCs) - http://www.godfrey.org
• Ancestry (commercial, but free at Regional FHCs) -- http://www.ancestry.com
• Footnote (commercial, but free at FHCs) -- http://www.footnote.com
• Google News Archive (free)-- http://www.google.com/archivesearch
• Utah Digital Newspapers (free)-- http://digitalnewspapers.org/
• FamilySearch Wiki (free) -- https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Main_Page -- do a search for something like "newspapers idaho" (without the quotes)

CAPTURING NEWSPAPER INFORMATION

• Put the data into your PAF (or other genealogy program) to keep track of your sources
• Copy and paste text
• Use screen capture program -- FastStoneCapture 5.3 is free and very helpful -- http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/mmedia/FastStoneCapture.html

ASSIGNMENT

1. See if you can find a digitized newspaper online somewhere that has something about one of your ancestors or about the town they lived in.
2. If you have any Utah ancestors, try searching for their names in the Utah Digital Newspapers.

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Return to the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group Home Page , or Don's Class Listings Page .