Posts about newspapers, newspaper indexes, digital newspapers, and newspaper directories, and finding historic newspapers for genealogy research.
"Prefers Jail to Husband" is an arresting headline that led me on another vintage newspaper detour recently. I justify going down these journalistic rabbit holes by saying that they're newspaper serendipity. That's my [...]
Interested in mapping newspapers in Chronicling America collection? An interactive data visualization project at Stanford maps locations of historic newspapers in the Chronicling America collection. How cool is that? The International German Genealogy Conference [...]
Today's lets talk about searching the U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present. Chronicling America at the Library of Congress gets lots of good press from me and other genealogists. This resource provides access to digitized U.S. [...]
Found under the innocuous headline Society News, this 1934 German visitor to Milwaukee praises Germany's new leader. Sometimes searching in newspapers is not so serendipitous. Offered without further comment, except to say that this [...]
