To be clear the obituaries and entire newspapers go back to 1690. Small towns and large towns are included. GenealogyBank.com has 4,300 newspapers from all 50 states.
There is also a separate bucket on the site that highlights the obituaries from the 1970s forward. Tom On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot <[email protected]> wrote: > But be careful of what you are looking for, how old it may be, and from where > you think it might have come. Check those web pages closely and you'll see > that the cities covered are only the larger metropolitan areas. If your > relative in the obituary were a farmer from a rural area and the newspaper > clipping came from one of those "county-wide farm papers" then this service > probably won't cover it. Plus you have to look at their advertisements very > closely. Seems the obituaries only go back to around 1970. Not very useful. > They do have a lot more "historical news" that is archived; its just that the > obituary service covers mostly the 2000s and a few back into the 1970s-1980s. > > > Brian in CA > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Geoff Rasmussen [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:15 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Newspaper Announcements >> >> Charles - here's one way you can locate the newspaper when you don't >> know where it came from: http://tinyurl.com/q8vjkg. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Geoff Rasmussen >> Millennia Corporation >> [email protected] >> www.LegacyFamilyTree.com >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Charles Apple [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 7:24 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Newspaper Announcements >> >> I have many obituary clippings from various newspapers that were sent >> by >> relatives, many of them deceased now, however, they give no newspaper >> name, >> or any other relavent information about the newspaper. How can I cite >> the >> newspaper as the source when I don't even know the name of the >> newspaper? >> >> Perhaps the artifacts template would be best used here? If someone has >> a >> better solution, I would love to hear it. >> >> Charles Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
