NEWSPAPERS IN FAMILY HISTORY

• Welcome and Introduction to Class
• Why Newspapers Are Important and Examples in Family History
• Articles About Using Newspapers
• Where to Find Newspapers
• Assignment

• Instructors are Donald R. and Diane M. Snow ( snowd@math.byu.edu and dms34@juno.com ) of Provo, Utah and St. George, Utah.
• These notes with active Internet links are posted on the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group website http://uvtagg.org >  Class Outlines >  Don's Listings .   Many other class notes for family history are posted there, too.
• Newspapers started in the U.S. in 1690 (see Library of Congress website below) and are a rich source of genealogy data.  This class will discuss some ways of finding and using that information.
• Note: holding down the Control Key while clicking on a link opens the link in a new window while keeping the notes open where you were -- makes it easier to get back where you were

• News articles and photos -- school, military, current events, both local and worldwide  
• Vital records and obituaries -- births, marriages, deaths
• Social and society columns
• Legal notices and public announcements 
• Local news
• Historical information in newpapers like the New York Times
• Classified ads -- e.g. "Search for Missing Friends" ads in The Boston Pilot -- http://www.americanancestors.org/search.aspx?Ca=098&Da=263 

• About.com articles and links about newspapers
  • http://genealogy.about.com/od/newspapers/Newspapers.htm 
  • http://genealogy.about.com/od/historic_online/Historic_Newspapers_Online.htm
• US Newspaper Program --http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html
• Articles by Kimberly Powell
• "7 Tips for Searching Digitized Newspapers" -- http://genealogy.about.com/od/newspapers/tp/news_search_tips.htm?nl=1
• "Family History in the News" -- http://genealogy.about.com/cs/newspapers/a/news_research_2.htm?nl=1 
• British Newspapers 1800-1900
  • British newspapers 1800-1900 --http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/
  • Dick Eastman -- http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/05/british-newspapers-18001900-online.html

• Linkpendium -- http://www.linkpendium.com -- major listing of US newspapers in each state, county, and town
• GENUKI -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/ -- UK and Ireland
• RootsWeb -- http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/news/ -- Search all or by newspaper
• US GenWeb -- http://www.usgenweb.org/ -- Go to state > county > city
• National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) -- http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/ 
• Library of Congress Digital Collections -- http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html -- and Chronicling America -- http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ 
• Cyndislist -- http://www.cyndislist.com > Newspapers
• US Newspaper List -- http://www.usnpl.com/ 
• Internet Public Library -- http://www.ipl.org/
• Family History Library Catalog -- http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp  -- do keyword search for things like "newspapers utah" (without the quotes)
• Google News Archive -- http://www.google.com/archivesearch or get to it by going to Google and click on News > Advanced News Search - do a search so you see link to click on Google News Archives Search
• FamilySearch Wiki -- https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Main_Page -- do a search for something like "newspapers idaho" (without the quotes)
• Quincy (Illinois) Public Library website -- http://www.quincylibrary.org > Reference and Research tab
  • Historical Newspaper Archive -- many articles about the Mormons in Nauvoo
  • US National Newspaper websites -- links to many current national newspapers
• Utah Digital Newspapers -- http://digitalnewspapers.org/ 
• Commercial sites -- Some available for free at FHCs or at Regional FHCs
  • Genealogy Bank --www.genealogybank.com -- large collection of historic newspapers - can search and see snippets for free 
  • Godfrey Memorial Library -- http://www.godfrey.org/ -- available for free at all FHC's and through personal subscription
    • London (Digital) Times -- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/ -- also on Footnote  
    • Newspaper Archive -- http://newspaperarchive.com/Default.aspx -- claims to be the largest online newspaper archive ($72/year, but available through Godfrey)
  • Gale Digital Collections -- http://www.gale.cengage.com/DigitalCollections/  
  • Ancestry's Newspaper Collection -- http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/default.aspx?rt=38 -- Or get to it by going to Ancestry's Home page > Search > Stories & Publications > Newspapers & Periodicals -- Free at LDS Regional Family History Centers, e.g. St. George Regional Family History Training Center
  • Footnote (recently purchased by Ancestry, but still free at FHC's) -- http://go.footnote.com/results.php?xid=275
  • World Vital Records -- http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/contentlisting.aspx?cat=news&kbid=1117 -- free at FHC's
  • Readex Newspaper Archive -- http://www.newsbank.com/readex/index.cfm?content=343 -- For Archive of Americana hover your cursor over Digital Collections (upper left side)
  • Personalized Newspaper Gifts -- http://www.simplypersonalized.com/newspaper-gifts/  
• Many current newspapers have a website with recent archives and many are free -- Try Google and other search engines
  • New York Times -- http://www.nytimes.com/ -- free registration; archives start with first paper in 1851; do a search and you will see a date field open that you can click on for dates from 1851 on
  • Chicago Tribune 1852 - Present -- http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/advancedsearch.html
  • Toronto Star -- http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/about.html -- free archives only goes back to 1985
  • Los Angeles Times -- http://www.latimes.com/  -- free registration
  • Salt Lake Deseret News -- http://deseretnews.com/home -- Click on Archives (upper right side) > Historic archive (lower right side)
  • Salt Lake Tribune -- http://www.sltrib.com/  
  • St. George Spectrum -- http://www.thespectrum.com/ 
• For links to early vital records in Utah newspapers see my class notes on LDS & Utah Records on http://uvtagg.org > Class Outlines > Don's Listings

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 Utah ancestors, try searching for their names in the Utah Digital Newspapers.