Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about newspapers, newspaper indexes, digital newspapers, and newspaper directories, and finding historic newspapers for genealogy research.
Today's post is about the sleuthing librarians and archivists who are finding, sharing, and saving historic newspapers. It can be frustrating to look for a newspaper needed for research and not find a digital [...]
The Newspaper Navigator project at the Library of Congress finds and extracts visual content from 16 million pages found in Chronicling America. Although LC is closed to the public, work continues behind the scenes [...]
"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 [...]
