1. GENEALOGY RESEARCH WITH NEWSPAPERS Kathleen Strauss

2. A TRESURE TROVE OF FAMILY HISTORY “Newspapers are the day-to-day (or week-to-week) diaries of community events.” The Source, Provo, Ancestry, 2006, p. 563. Newspapers provide a chronicle of the successes, failures, and everyday lives of the people of a community.

3. CURRENT NEWSPAPERS Current-day local news and events. Try to be more objective. Editorial comment usually assigned to a few pages of letters and opinion pieces.

4. OLDER NEWSPAPERS Abundance of personal news and social items. Reporting not as objective as today. Lots of gossip and scandal reporting and opinion. Flowery language.

5. SOURCES FOR NEWSPAPER RESEARCH Online archives and databases Newspaper abstract books Newspaper clippings posted online Newspaper clippings books in archives and libraries Specialty books on time periods or subjects

6. LOOKING INSIDE FOR FAMILY Vital Records – obituaries, birth, marriage Advertisements Legal Notices Social Notices News stories ETC…Use your imagination!

7. OBITUARIES Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH Tuesday, April 18, 1950

8. Weekly Houston Telegraph, 18 Oct 1837 Requests for other papers to publish obituaries

9. SOCIAL ITEMS ANNIVERSARIES, WEDDINGS, PERSONALS Oregonian, Portland, 23 Feb 1902 Born and married in Missouri Pioneers of Lane County, Oregon Eleven children Wealthy and influential couple

10. Patriot, Harrisburg, PA, 20 Dec 1901 Big society wedding between children of the Secretary of State and an ex- Secretary of the Navy

11. Dallas Morning News, 7 Oct 1984 Gazette of the United States, Philadelphia, 28 Oct 1800

12. ENGAGEMENT PICTURES Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Jan 1922 Double Weddings are being planned by two families where daughters have become engaged. Mrs. Joseph M. Alten of Avon announces the engagements of her daughter, Thelma to Mr. Albert O. Demerz of Boston and her daughter, Clarabell, to Mr. Stanley F. Keyes of Elyria. The Alten sisters are pictured above. Miss Esther Ehle, daughter of Mr. and mrs. John Ehle, 10809 Hull Avenue N.E., is the fiancee of Mr. Albert Van Dutton of Conneaut and her sister, Cora is to wed Mr. Gordon Thornton of Lima, Ohio.

13. PERSONALS Generational Pictures Names and ages 2 ½ to 82 years Logan Daily News, Logan, Ohio, 1940.

14. Evansville Courier and Press, Evansville, Indiana, 16 Dec 1901

15. LEGAL NOTICES Evening News, San Jose, California, 3 Sept 1910 Effort to sell real estate to benefit deceased estate. Published 4 successive weeks.

16. State, Columbia, South Carolina, 24 Jan 1908 No new cases Current cases on docket Cases taken up and disposed of

17. DIVORCE PETITION Boston Post-Boy, 22 July 1751

18. NEWS STORIES PASSENGER LISTS Connecticut Gazette, 3 Feb 1764

19. Boston News-Letter, 3 Sept 1711

20. ACCIDENTS Repository, Canton, Ohio, 28 Feb 1929

21. ADVERTISEMENTS Albany Gazette, Albany, NY, 13 Mar 1797

22. American Weekly Mercury, Philadelphia, 10 May 1733

23. ETHNIC NEWSPAPERS Irish American Weekly, New York, 27 January 1850 Looking for friends and relatives

24. Columbus Standard, Columbus, Ohio, 27 July 1901 Mrs. Buckner may have been the oldest person in the country at time of her death. Remembered War of 1812 Born in Virginia Lived in Columbus since 1863, coming from Virginia. Baptist African American Newspaper

25. POPULAR WEBSITES FOR ONLINE NEWSPAPERS

26. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

27. PORTAL TO TEXAS HISTORY

28. NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES

29. ANCESTRY

30. AMERICA’S GENEALOGY BANK

31. GENEALOGY BANK

32. WORLDWIDE LIST OF DIGITAL NEWSPAPERS

33. www.cyndislist.com

34. THE ANCESTOR HUNT www.theancestorhunt.com