ONLINE NEWSPAPERS IN FAMILY HISTORY
©2017 by Donald R. Snow
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WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
- Instructor is Donald R. Snow (snowd@math.byu.edu)
of Provo and St. George, Utah.
- See http://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html
for these and the NEWSPAPERS
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES.
- Tips:
(1) Desktop icons
(Drag icon to desktop),
and (2) Saving
your place in these notes
(Hold down CTRL key)
- U.S. newspapers started
in 1690 and contain vital
records, news articles and photos,
school, military, current events, both
local and worldwide, stories about people, society
columns, legal information, and even
classified ads
- Example -- Warren Ladd read his own obituary
in the morning newspaper -- The Lowell Sun 30
Dec 1893 -- http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/11220376/
- The problem for today: How to find
information in online newspapers and how to
use it.
HOW TO SAVE ARTICLES
- Things you can do with articles
- Save the reference and link in a program
like EVERNOTE (free) from http://www.evernote.com
- Save it as a file, a pdf, jpg, etc.,
using a screen capture program
- Link the website to a person in your
genealogy database and on FamilySearch
Family Tree.
- Screen captures -- FastStone Capture 5.3
(last freeware version) is a good screen
capture program -- http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/mmedia/FastStoneCapture.html
-- many features, even does scrolling windows
- My file naming system to find items and form
timelines of people's lives -- see details on
the Supplementary and Screen Capture notes on http://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html
-- use the freeware
program EVERYTHING from http://voidtools.com/
to find,
show, organize, and sort them chronologically
from anywhere on your computer
NEWSPAPER WEBSITES AND SEARCHING
- FamilySearch Wiki has more than 9,000
articles with "newspapers" in the title; good
article on US Newspapers -- https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/United_States_Newspapers
-- new pilot project on
FamilySearch called "Zoning" to
see which articles ought to be
indexed
- Linkpendium -- http://www.linkpendium.com
-- major listing of newspapers by
country, state, county, and town
- Elephind -- https://www.elephind.com/
-- links to newspapers world-wide
- BYU Library Newspaper Links -- http://sites.lib.byu.edu/familyhistory/
> http://sites.lib.byu.edu/familyhistory/periodicals/
- BYU-I Library Newspaper Links -- http://libguides.byui.edu/content.php?pid=9726&sid=80620
- Utah Digital Newspapers -- http://digitalnewspapers.org/ --
see pdf timeline of newspapers they
have digitized so far -- http://digitalnewspapers.org/public/pdf/timeline.pdf
- Library
of Congress
Digital
Collections --
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/
, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
, and http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
.
- National Digital Newspaper
Program (NDNP) -- http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/
- Wikipedia list of newspapers and
links --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives
- NewspaperCat --
http://www.theancestorhunt.com/1/post/2013/09/newspaper-cat-the-easy-way-to-find-where-the-online-newspapers-are.html
and additional information and
links at -- http://www.theancestorhunt.com/newspapers.html
- Newspapers ($) -- http://www.newspapers.com
- Newspaper websites with
archives worldwide -- http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html
- New York Times -- http://www.nytimes.com/ --
free registration, but they
charge for some articles;
starts with first NY Times
in 1851; knowing the date
and title of article you may
be able to find it for free
on other websites
- London Times (Digital) --
available through Godfrey
Library -- see NEWSPAPERS
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
- Links
to many more
newspapers,
current
newspapers,
and articles
- Information
about my file naming system
for computer files of
articles, etc., to be able
to find them and form
timelines
- More information about
newspapers in
genealogy
CONCLUSIONS
- Newspapers written
at the time are a good source
of information, stories, and data
about our ancestors.
- More and more newspapers are being
digitized and posted online, so repeat
your searches.