Accessing a Member Benefit: NewspaperArchive

 

The National Genealogical Society offers its paid individual members many benefits. One favorite is the free subscription to NewspaperArchive. If you haven’t yet searched its database, you are in for a treat. Its extensive, easy-to-use collection will undoubtedly make it one of your favorite benefits.

What is NewspaperArchive?

NewspaperArchive is an online, historical newspaper database. A yearly subscription normally costs $95 and change. As an NGS member, you have free access to its entire database with 280+ million pages of digitized newspaper content from over 15,500 different publication titles from the United States and many other countries around the world. Newspapers span 1736 to present day.

How Do You Access This Member Benefit?

First, go to the NGS website and log into your account. You’ll know you are logged in because you’ll see the Welcome [your name] message at the top right. Now, click on Member Benefits at the top toolbar and select Individual Member Benefits. You’ll find NewspaperArchive listed on the drop-down menu.

Click on NewspaperArchive. This will take you to the NewspaperArchive web page on the NGS website. From this web page, click on the blue Access NewspaperArchive button.

Clicking on the blue button brings you to the NewspaperArchive website homepage. You can start your search on this page. Please note: ignore the user log-in at the top right of the page, you are already logged in via your NGS account.

From the homepage you can do a basic search by name, keyword, or newspaper titles. If you need more options for searching, click on the Advanced Search link at the bottom of the search box. The Advanced Search enhances your search by allowing you to search by name, location, keywords, publication, and date. Once you conduct a basic search, such as on a name, you will have the opportunity to narrow your search on your results page by country or US state and city and by date range.

Your search results list will include the number of results, thumbnails images of the results, and ways to narrow your results on the right-hand side of the page. 

Click on one of your results and you will be taken to the newspaper page. At the top, you’ll see the publication name and date, page numbers, and the Find on Page function. Fill in a name or keyword and it will be highlighted on the newspaper page. At the top right, you can choose to download the image of that newspaper page, save it to your computer or print it. At the top left you can choose to brighten or add contrast to the newspaper page or zoom in or out.

Start Using NewspaperArchive Today

If you haven’t tried searching for your ancestors on NewspaperArchive, give it a try. You may discover a long lost relative or uncover a story about a great grandfather. And, if you have used it in the past, be sure to check back in. NewspaperArchive is consistently adding new content. To learn more about searching NewspaperArchive, see the NGS video by Mary Roddy, Finding Treasures in NewspaperArchive: How an NGSQ Editor Mines this New Member Benefit. 

Enjoy one of the best free member benefits from NGS!

 

Small Town Newspapers -- a hidden gem!

Small Town Newspapers -- a hidden gem!

So many newspapers, so little time!  And, this collection is worth your time.
The other day I was getting ready to contact a library to see if they had a local newspaper (Spring Hope Enterprise) in their holdings.  None of the big newspaper sites include it.  Then, as I often do, I just did a google under the name of the newspaper + archives.  I first came across a modern archive and I needed something from back in the 1980s.  I then came across what appeared to be a different archive – I put in my person’s name and voila, next thing to pop up was the newspaper page with his obituary! 

You are probably wondering, the source of this success.  SmallTownPapers. The link takes you to a listing by state or an alphabetical listing of the newspapers included.  With only 6 newspapers found for North Carolina, I was just thrilled that the one I sought is included.

Choose from over 250 small town newspapers you can read free every week!

Browse and search the scanned newspaper archive from 1846 up to the current edition!

SmallTownPapers gives you free access to the people, places and events recorded in real time over the decades or even centuries!

In a bit of serendipity, as I researched further into this “new-to-me” resource, I discovered that Kenneth R. Mark (of The Ancestor Hunt) had just blogged the day before about additions to another collection, really service, that enables small town newspapers to digitize elements of their collections, Search 40 Million Historic U.S. Newspaper Pages for Free!

For the last 3 years I have been tracking the online collections made available by the Advantage Preservation company who has contracted with several hundred libraries across the U.S. to digitize and host their online newspaper collections.

The great majority of these links have been Incorporated in the state collection summaries found in the Newspaper Research Links page on this site. But some are so new that they have not been included as yet.  And I have just been made aware of about 150 new collections!

The most recent update of the Advantage Preservation collections now totals 434 from 37 states and is still growing. The total pages now exceed 40 million!

Kenneth actively maintains a list of links to online newspaper archives. Check them out, you may find that a newspaper of interest to you is at your fingertips.

So, in the course of a day I learned about not one and two new-to-me newspaper archives.

Makes me wonder what other newspaper gems I’ve been missing out on!





What are your favorite resources for digitized newspapers?

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Chronicling America Data Challenge -- Prizes will be awarded!

We often talk about Chronicling America as a great resource for digitized newspaper content.

NEH has issued a challenge (with prizes!) -- Create a web-based tool, data visualization, or other creative use of the information found in the Chronicling America historic newspaper database.  Here’s a snippet about this challenge.

... What are we looking for?  NEH encourages contestants to develop data visualizations, web-based tools, or other innovative and interesting web-based projects using the open data found in Chronicling America. There are over ten million pages of digitized newspapers in Chronicling America, published between 1836 and 1922, from towns and cities across the United States.  The newspapers illuminate 19^th- and 20^th-century American life, with stories about politics, sports, shopping, music, food, health, science, movies, and everything in between.  Entries should uncover trends, display insights, explore a theme, or tell a story.

For example, entries using the Chronicling America newspaper data could:

·        Show how local news in various places covered the World Series of baseball

·        Trace the developing motion picture industry across the country

·        Follow the enactment of amendments to the Constitution

·        Show coverage of a historic political campaign in various locations

·        Map the travels of a president across the country based on local news coverage

·        Show changes in advertising logos or newspaper mastheads over time

·        Track the price or adoption of consumer goods over time in different locations

·        Explore tourism in different locations in the United States

·        Discover how various regions of the country celebrated Thanksgiving at different times...

Full details can be found here. I also found this related read, NEH Invites Entries for the Chronicling America Data Challenge on the Blog of the American Historical Association interesting as it gave a couple of examples of projects “such as An Epidemiology of Information, which uses text mining to explore how information about the 1918 influenza pandemic spread, and Journalism’s Voyage West, a visualization of the growth and decline of newspapers in the US, have shown some of the possibilities offered by computational approaches to this digitized archive.”

Understanding historical context always benefits our family history research.

What neat project, based on Chronicling America, would you like to see undertaken?

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Don't Overlook Non-English Language Newspapers (U.S. & Canadian Published)

page 1152 from the 1910 N.W. Ayer & Son's American newspaper annual and directory, Hathi Trust Digital Library

I write about newspapers often as so many have become accessible through recent digitization efforts.  Newspaper content can really help your research by adding in details that won’t be found in official documents – social news, farming news, community news, birth/marriage/death announcements, reunion news, sports reporting, fraternal organization membership, and so much more.

As a country of emigrants, not all U.S. newspapers published have been nor are currently published in English. There is the so-called Ethnic Press which most often means newspaper published in a foreign language.

Two articles have been written about Chronicling America and some of the American ethnic press included in its collection -- Chronicling America’s Historic German Newspapers and the Growth of the American Ethnic Press & New Mexico, New Spain, Old Cultures: Historic Spanish-Language Newspapers in Chronicling America.

These are a good place to get started on appreciating the scope and breadth of the American Ethic Press.

Once curiosity is peaked, I suggest visiting the Chronicling America, U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present. A search option is to select language and included are languages from Albanian to Asue Awye to Cebuano to Choctaw to Finnish to Inupiaq to Marathi to Persian to Uzbek, etc.  I think you can appreciate the great diversity of languages represented.  

Additionally, the Center for Research Libraries - Global Resources Network has a list of Ethnic Newspapers held in its collection.  A great resource for early 20th-century ethnic newspapers in circulation is the N.W. Ayer & Son’s American newspaper annual and directory.  You can access the years 1910-1923 via Hathi Trust Digital Library. Check out page 1152 from the 1910 directory, “Publications in Foreign Languages.”  The list is organized by language and then state. Unfortunately, for my own personal research, MA was not a hot bed for non-English language newspapers in Finnish, Polish or Russian.

BTW, did I mention that the Chronicling America project hit the milestone of posting its 10 millionth page!?!?!

There are other newspaper collections that include Ethnic Newspapers.  These are not free to access like Chronicling America and you may have access via a local university library -- Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971 & Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 (Readex).

Additionally, there are other resources for Ethnic Newspapers such as:

+ Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press (The University of Arizona)

+ Ethnic Newspapers Database and the Florida Digital Newspaper Library (Presentation on collection)

+ Multicultural Canada – includes digitized ethnic newspapers

These newspapers are invaluable as you research your emigrant ancestors.

Do you have a favorite ethnic newspaper and/or newspaper collection? 

What is the best bit of “news” you learned from a non-English language U.S. or Canadian newspaper?

Editor’s Note: Previous Upfront with NGS blog posts on related topics.

+ British Library Using Robots to Preserve Newspapers

+ Will Digital Newspaper Archives for ALL Newspapers Be Available to Our Descendants?

+ Newspapers -- a new site for genealogists to consider and a reminder of some older sites that are goodies!

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British Library Using Robots to Preserve Newspapers

Newspapers are crumbling faster than they can be preserved, or at least that is how it often feels!

An article, Not fade away... how robots are preserving our old newspapers, about part of the efforts by the British Library to preserve the British newspaper heritage has a Sci-Fi feel to it and yet this technology is in use right now rushing against time ...

A gigantic robotic vault, the National Newspaper Building in Boston Spa, near Leeds, is the British Library’s high-tech approach to safeguarding what it rather endearingly terms “the national memory” – 750m pages of news, covering more than three centuries of goings-on, as reported in papers across the nation. From political turmoil to humanitarian crisis, murder cases to local marriage notices, it’s all here. And it’s growing. “We’re adding something like 1,200 titles every week,” says Alasdair Bruce, manager of the British Library Newspaper Programme.

The article goes on to discuss other preservation elements, the challenges of preservation and digitization and recognition that even when digitization occurs, can we ensure that the digital format will be preserved and accessible!

Kind of reminds me of when it seems for every question I get an answer to, about ten or more new questions emerge ...

Yet, that doesn’t stop us from answering questions nor will it stop entities like the British Library from doing all they can to preserve its holdings for future generations.

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FREE Access to Chicago Tribune Archive (Beta) [end date unknown]

Love a good news archive?  What if it also happens to be free?

For an unknown amount of time while the Chicago Tribune works on a “Beta” version of its archive, you can access it for FREE.

As shared on the archive FAQ page ...

What do you mean by “beta”?

The archives are a work in progress, but we wanted to make them public so you could start exploring. The piece you’re most likely to notice as not being quite finished is search, which is still in the process of compiling results. This is an ongoing process, however, so don’t be discouraged—if you don’t get many results for your search term one day, try again a day or two later and you might be surprised by what you find!

Occasionally you may notice incorrect highlighting on articles; this is an artifact of the digitization process and not something we can fix at present.

See anything else that looks wrong? Email us at archives@tribune.com—we appreciate your feedback.

Let us know if you make any neat finds!

Eventually, the archive will require a subscription to access.

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Will Digital Newspaper Archives for ALL Newspapers Be Available to Our Descendants?

Yesterday we discussed highways wiping out whole neighborhoods.

Today, let’s turn our attention to modern day newspapers disappearing and possibly taking their digital archive with them!

Anyone who has done research into historic newspapers knows that there are newspapers for which NO archives survive.  Just the other day in a post What would you put in a time capsule? I discussed the discovery of an edition of an African-American newspaper for which there is no known archive!

How often do you look through the wonderful Chronicling America U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present, and find only fragments of a newspapers run survive? Maybe a handful of editions for a newspaper that existed for decades survive!

Sometimes the one glimmer of hope is that I have found in the 1800s that it was not uncommon for newspapers to share news published in other newspapers – I am always thankful when I search a digital newspaper archive and discover a tidbit of news published from another newspaper which I cannot access.  Well, I could if I had a time machine.

I bring this up since it’s easy to think of this as being as issue for just “old” and “long ago” published newspapers.  It’s not.  The Columbia Journalism Review published Can the Boston Phoenix’s digital history be saved?  The article is about a newspaper than was shuttered in 2013 seeking a home for its print and digital archives.

How many smaller circulation newspapers with print and/or web versions are not planning for their possible demise?

All too often it’s the smaller more localized newspapers that really give us stories about our ancestors.  The bigger city and circulation newspapers have to cover a lot of territory.  It’s the local newspaper that gave you tons of social news, covered very event. In many ways, there were not news items too small to publish!  

We still have the same situation today, though it might just be that it’s a web-based news outlet we are reading ...

I sure hope that those smaller and often alternative newspapers are preparing for the future.

I just now checked The Newtown Bee archive.  The online archive may only go back about 15 years and there were some older news items (I imagine subsequently republished) from my high school years ... Phew!

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It's not too late -- FREE access to Toronto Star (ends 31 May 2015)

Just learned that the Toronto Star Archives has been offering FREE access since May 17!

It’s not too late to check out this neat newspaper!

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto shares ...

Free Access To Toronto Star Archives

The Toronto Star is offering free access to their archives May 17-May 31.

The archive dates covered are January 1, 1894-December 2011 for images.

Searches are by date or subject.  To access the archives go to: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/search.html  ...

  

Read the full blurb here.

Editor’s Note:  This really caught my eye as my daughter and I have been watching Murdoch Mysteries (via Netflix) which happens to be set in Toronto and revolves around a lot of true historical events.  With every episode we are always vetting some element of historical context.  It’s been fun.

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One Man Has Digitized Over 28 MILLION Historical Newspaper Pages

I couldn’t believe it when I realized that I apparently haven’t written about this website before – I’ve been using it for years and it’s a real gem! I always think of it as the Old Fulton New York Post Cards website, yet I only ever research “Newspapers” on it!  Though the interface is very simple, what you can find is amazing.  It currently includes over “28,300,000 Historical Newspaper Pages from the USA & Canada” though by far the majority of the newspapers are from New York. 

Love this image of the staff (of one)!

I often put a name, location, and a year, each term in quotes in the search box to fine tune my searches.  I sometimes will put a newspaper title (once I determine which one really interests me).  I’ve searched using addresses, surnames, whatever I think it might take and I have found some really neat newspaper notices that have told me when someone died, married, lived, worked and much more.

Read more about Tom Tryniski’s wonderful & FREE-to-access project via these two articles:

·    Amateur Beats Gov’t at Digitizing Newspapers: Tom Tryniski’s Weird, Wonderful Website (Jim Epstein, reason.com, 5 March 2013)

·    A Retiree Digitizes 27 Million Old Newspaper Pages in His Living Room (and Libraries Fight to Catch Up) (same author & publication, 18 May 2014)

Both pages have a video link which describes his work and the video is also available directly you YouTube.

This website is an excellent example of what one person can do.

Want to contribute to contribute to his efforts? You can do so via PayPal or with used “working” hard drives.

Editor’s Note: Always be creative when searching online digitized newspapers.  Love Hate Relationship with OCR -- So much digital content now available though accessing can still be a challenge

Editor’s Note: Another story about “what one person can do” Do-it-yourself book scanner preserving Pittstown PA history one page at a time!

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