I just found this great resource! Thank you so much! Within 5 minutes of watching it and trying it, I found a newspaper article about my grandmother with her picture. Priceless! Thanks again!
I realize this video was uploaded a few years ago but I found it extremely helpful & want to express my gratitude. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge & time!
Thank you so much! In the first few minutes of your video - I went to one of the sites and found an article on the death of one of my ancestors - why she died so young (pneumonia) - which I'd not known. Also a later article on where her husband moved from/to. I very much appreciate this video!
Thanks Kenneth !!! I'm excited about this. Going to get started. I'm new to the research world on Ancestry, April of this year 2019 to be exact. This is going to help me tremendously.
Thanks! Great job in presenting many and different kinds and types of newspapers. I am going to try them out. Thanks again, I can't seem to get enough learning. It's amazing to learn all the resources we have and this is one of the top ones.
Thank you Mr. Marks for the very helpful information/resources....you explained it very well and you also made it quite interesting to watch all the way through rather than being boring. Thanks again for sharing and uploading.
Thanks very much. Yes that company and Findmypast, have been scanning newspapers, but its not comprehensive and they charge a large fee to view. There is a national public archive to visit in London-to see the papers, but nothing in-between! really. You are lucky to have so many available online..a free press!
excellent presentation, full of valuable information, and so thankful for people like this, that spend so much time helping us, in presenting so much of their hard earned knowledge. wonderful video. thank you.
A few years ago I tried to generate a list of on line newspaper archives for the purpose of looking up old obituaries. I don't remember the name of the site but one didn't have subscription service. You had to pay on a per article basis and all articles were $29.99 each. I found about 45 obituaries I wanted to check out but when I contacted the site they said that was the price PER ARTICLE take it or leave it and it didn't matter if it was a three sentence death notice or a five page expose. The also charged that same amount for a copy of a classified ad from 1957. Absolutely ludicrous. I found several newspaper archives that had similar policies though that was the most ridiculous one. Many of their newspapers were the only copy available on line. I calculated and one complete copy of one newspaper would cost between $25,000 and $150,000 PER ISSUE! and you had to purchase each article separately so you couldn't just add stuff to a shopping cart. All that made it ludicrously expensive if you wanted to use their website for any kind of research. The cheapest one I found like that was a combination subscription and per article payment plan. The subscription was $600 a year or $75 a month but you still had to buy the individual articles ranging from $1 to $15 per article based on size. A little more reasonable but if you wanted to look up hundreds of articles it could take weeks and still cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.
Great information. I would love to use some newspaper articles in a book. Genealogybank.com tells me I can not use articles I found from their site in a book. What are the legal ramifications of using an article in a book. You mentioned you would like to use some on a blog or in a book. Thanks
i found out that my 2 great grandfathers were brothers i know one of them's name was jose desousa faria in portugal and had a son name joao desousa faria but thats all about i know i would like to find more info if anyone knows more i know i have german jewish porterican mexican italian indian possibly 2 types of indian possibly hawiian english want to know if all this is true and want to find anyother info as possible love doing my family history but cant seem to find any info on my great grandfather or grandfather if anyone has info and can help me i would be so appeciative thank you my name is ana i was born with the name of ana farias but found out in my adulthood it was suppose to be faria
I know a birth and death of my relative,but can't find where he is hurried. I have walked and walked through cemetery. I have used find a grave and no results. Any suggestions?
Obituaries are a good source for that info. They don't always say but often they do. If you have a death record then start looking in that town/city/county. Obituaries can often be found in public library newspaper archives on microfilm, yes sadly most are still only available on microfilm. Often only a single library in the world will have the microfilm record of the obituary of your ancestor and they can't afford to put it on line so you may have to travel to them though you can always call their reference desk and sometimes, especially in a small town, they may be willing to look it up for you and possibly even mail you a copy or email you a scan. The bigger the town/city the less likely they will do that for you. Also, contact the town hall/city hall and find out who is in charge of cemeteries. Often the cemetery superintendent will have records of where everyone in the town is buried. You may have to call around to several towns to find this out. Sometimes you have to just go to the town physically and walk up and down the rows of every grave of every cemetery until you find it and sometimes you will find out they were cremated and the ashes are scattered over the Mediterranean and sometimes you find out they were buried at sea. I have found all of the above in my ancestry. Once I even found an ancestor that was buried in a mass grave of small pox victims and the entire cemetery was over grown so you could not physically enter it. The town had been so terrified of small pox that once all the victims were buried nobody ever entered the crematory again. There is a plaque at the wall that lists the names. They all died the same month and year and there are no head stones. Many graves never had a head stone and may only have had a wood marker at one time that eventually rotted away. My grandmother's sister is buried in an unmarked grave because her only child lived thousands of miles away and never visited the grave. Eventually the plastic marker disintegrated. I have no idea where she and my uncle are buried now. The last time I was there was at the funeral in 1969. A large number of graves are like that. Oh I forgot to mention that obituaries will usually list the funeral home and guess what? Many funeral homes will keep a record of where they bury people. If your relative passed away within the last 20-30 years that might be a good way to find them and even if it is earlier, if the funeral home is still in business they may again still have the record. I found a record of my great great grandfather's brother that way. They are still in business and have been since 1872 and So when I saw the obit in a 1936 newspaper that mentioned the "undertaker" I looked it up and discovered they changed their name once but are still in business. I called them up thinking it was a long shot and was surprised to find that after she spent ten minutes looking in a file cabinet in the basement they found the record and she was kind enough to send me a copy in the mail. I got the cemetery and plot number that way. It also showed the bill for the funeral with an itemized list of expenses and who paid for it and a partial list of guests at the wake. but you won't usually get such great detail from so long ago but occasionally you might.
A state is NOT excluded. They INCLUDE themselves by applying for and receiving an annual grant for digitization from NEH. The South is well represented. This is an old video. All the states but one have newspapers on the CA site.
Why is it, that when I goto the library of congress, I get something completely different than you? I go to newspapers and then to Baltimore Maryland white Pages and I get papers from New York City, Another waste of time
I just found this great resource! Thank you so much! Within 5 minutes of watching it and trying it, I found a newspaper article about my grandmother with her picture. Priceless! Thanks again!
I realize this video was uploaded a few years ago but I found it extremely helpful & want to express my gratitude. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge & time!
Thank you so much! In the first few minutes of your video - I went to one of the sites and found an article on the death of one of my ancestors - why she died so young (pneumonia) - which I'd not known. Also a later article on where her husband moved from/to. I very much appreciate this video!
Happy one year anniversary to this great video. You've helped me tremendously!
This is an excellent piece. A lot of beginner genealogists don't realize the value of newspapers in genealogy research.
This you tube is great for training and helpuing find things that are not found anywhere else
Thank you! I spent money online and still did not get a report so I want to go free. I appreciate your video Kenneth. So very nice of you to do this.
Thank you for this, I was getting fed up with every place wanting money.
Thanks Kenneth !!!
I'm excited about this. Going to get started. I'm new to the research world on Ancestry, April of this year 2019 to be exact. This is going to help me tremendously.
Check out my site at www.theancestorhunt.com for newspaper resources and many other genealogy links to useful collections. All free
Thanks! Great job in presenting many and different kinds and types of newspapers. I am going to try them out. Thanks again, I can't seem to get enough learning. It's amazing to learn all the resources we have and this is one of the top ones.
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Thank you Mr. Marks for the very helpful information/resources....you explained it very well and you also made it quite interesting to watch all the way through rather than being boring. Thanks again for sharing and uploading.
Great lecture. I learned a lot. Can't wait to start looking in newspapers.
Thanks very much. Yes that company and Findmypast, have been scanning newspapers, but its not comprehensive and they charge a large fee to view. There is a national public archive to visit in London-to see the papers, but nothing in-between! really. You are lucky to have so many available online..a free press!
excellent presentation, full of valuable information, and so thankful for people like this, that spend so much time helping us, in presenting so much of their hard earned knowledge. wonderful video. thank you.
I have been to a few of these sites but not all of them thanks. Great presentation.
Incredibly helpful. Thanks
Thank you, Kenneth. Your video is interesting, informative and useful. I am eager to search the sites you covered.
If I could find them for free that would be great. Do any of these explain how to use them?
A few years ago I tried to generate a list of on line newspaper archives for the purpose of looking up old obituaries. I don't remember the name of the site but one didn't have subscription service. You had to pay on a per article basis and all articles were $29.99 each. I found about 45 obituaries I wanted to check out but when I contacted the site they said that was the price PER ARTICLE take it or leave it and it didn't matter if it was a three sentence death notice or a five page expose. The also charged that same amount for a copy of a classified ad from 1957. Absolutely ludicrous. I found several newspaper archives that had similar policies though that was the most ridiculous one. Many of their newspapers were the only copy available on line. I calculated and one complete copy of one newspaper would cost between $25,000 and $150,000 PER ISSUE! and you had to purchase each article separately so you couldn't just add stuff to a shopping cart. All that made it ludicrously expensive if you wanted to use their website for any kind of research. The cheapest one I found like that was a combination subscription and per article payment plan. The subscription was $600 a year or $75 a month but you still had to buy the individual articles ranging from $1 to $15 per article based on size. A little more reasonable but if you wanted to look up hundreds of articles it could take weeks and still cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.
I love researching in news paper great ideas
Thank you so much for sharing!
Great information. I would love to use some newspaper articles in a book. Genealogybank.com tells me I can not use articles I found from their site in a book. What are the legal ramifications of using an article in a book. You mentioned you would like to use some on a blog or in a book. Thanks
thank you for posting this video; it's helped broaden my searching options!
Could you post on the description of this video all the links that you mention in it?
It would help greatly.
+AJ Perkins Click on his website link .. I believe he has them listed there
Amazing !!
Thank you so much for all this information.
thank you for creating this video!
i found out that my 2 great grandfathers were brothers i know one of them's name was jose desousa faria in portugal and had a son name joao desousa faria but thats all about i know i would like to find more info if anyone knows more i know i have german jewish porterican mexican italian indian possibly 2 types of indian possibly hawiian english want to know if all this is true and want to find anyother info as possible love doing my family history but cant seem to find any info on my great grandfather or grandfather if anyone has info and can help me i would be so appeciative thank you my name is ana i was born with the name of ana farias but found out in my adulthood it was suppose to be faria
The Google newspaper archive is great - but seems all Canadian/Australian/USA papers...where can I find free BRITISH newspaper archives please?
I know a birth and death of my relative,but can't find where he is hurried. I have walked and walked through cemetery. I have used find a grave and no results. Any suggestions?
Obituaries are a good source for that info. They don't always say but often they do. If you have a death record then start looking in that town/city/county. Obituaries can often be found in public library newspaper archives on microfilm, yes sadly most are still only available on microfilm. Often only a single library in the world will have the microfilm record of the obituary of your ancestor and they can't afford to put it on line so you may have to travel to them though you can always call their reference desk and sometimes, especially in a small town, they may be willing to look it up for you and possibly even mail you a copy or email you a scan. The bigger the town/city the less likely they will do that for you. Also, contact the town hall/city hall and find out who is in charge of cemeteries. Often the cemetery superintendent will have records of where everyone in the town is buried. You may have to call around to several towns to find this out. Sometimes you have to just go to the town physically and walk up and down the rows of every grave of every cemetery until you find it and sometimes you will find out they were cremated and the ashes are scattered over the Mediterranean and sometimes you find out they were buried at sea. I have found all of the above in my ancestry. Once I even found an ancestor that was buried in a mass grave of small pox victims and the entire cemetery was over grown so you could not physically enter it. The town had been so terrified of small pox that once all the victims were buried nobody ever entered the crematory again. There is a plaque at the wall that lists the names. They all died the same month and year and there are no head stones. Many graves never had a head stone and may only have had a wood marker at one time that eventually rotted away. My grandmother's sister is buried in an unmarked grave because her only child lived thousands of miles away and never visited the grave. Eventually the plastic marker disintegrated. I have no idea where she and my uncle are buried now. The last time I was there was at the funeral in 1969. A large number of graves are like that. Oh I forgot to mention that obituaries will usually list the funeral home and guess what? Many funeral homes will keep a record of where they bury people. If your relative passed away within the last 20-30 years that might be a good way to find them and even if it is earlier, if the funeral home is still in business they may again still have the record. I found a record of my great great grandfather's brother that way. They are still in business and have been since 1872 and So when I saw the obit in a 1936 newspaper that mentioned the "undertaker" I looked it up and discovered they changed their name once but are still in business. I called them up thinking it was a long shot and was surprised to find that after she spent ten minutes looking in a file cabinet in the basement they found the record and she was kind enough to send me a copy in the mail. I got the cemetery and plot number that way. It also showed the bill for the funeral with an itemized list of expenses and who paid for it and a partial list of guests at the wake. but you won't usually get such great detail from so long ago but occasionally you might.
Thank you!
Thanks so much
The URL link page doesn't work any more.
0:52 search includes about half of the states. Let me guess - the south are the states excluded.
A state is NOT excluded. They INCLUDE themselves by applying for and receiving an annual grant for digitization from NEH. The South is well represented. This is an old video. All the states but one have newspapers on the CA site.
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good video thanks
Why is it, that when I goto the library of congress, I get something completely different than you?
I go to newspapers and then to Baltimore Maryland white Pages and I get papers from New York City,
Another waste of time
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