Another in
the series on sessions I attended at the NGS 2014 Family History Conference.
T219 Tech Tools That Catapult the Newspaper Research Process into
the Twenty-First Century, Lisa Louise Cooke, Syllabus page 177
We love
newspapers. They are sometimes the only
source of data, as well as color, about a person we are researching.
As someone
who has done a lot of newspaper research, online and offline, my biggest (though
not only) takeaways from this talk were:
1. Reminded
about Stanford Newspaper Data Visualization
2. Learned
about www.NewspaperMap.com
(check it out)
3. Encouraged
to use the free Web clipper for Evernote (which strengthened my resolve about using
Evernote; another in this series talks about a presentation on Evernote that I
attended)
I had
previously been introduced to the Stanford Newspaper Data Visualization website
from the perspective of seeing the big picture of newspaper growth over time --
The Growth of Newspapers Across the U.S.: 1690-2011. I just
hadn’t thought to use it as a visual means to identify where newspapers were
located for a locale I was researching; imagine me slapping my forehead when I
heard about this. Even though the State
Library of North Carolina has a neat newspaper locator tool,
it doesn’t have a visual component and it doesn’t help me when dealing with
border communities. On this map, I can
see newspapers at a certain time (say 1829 – see image above) and in the case
of NC, I can also see what newspapers were published in VA, SC, TN and GA which
may have relevance to the NC locales I am researching.
The
associated syllabus pages provide lots of details about sources for information
about extant newspapers and also Lisa’s Top 5 Newspaper Tips.
Editor’s Note: This session was NOT recorded. Hopefully a
friend attended the conference and you can learn more!
Editor’s Note: This series is not
presented in any particular order.
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