I get newspaperarchives.com through my local library website for free. And you are correct....I found my grandma's obituary and it gave me many clues to unanswered questions!
Sally In a message dated 1/4/2011 7:03:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Yes, I did subscribe about a month ago. I found that 99.5% of the records that were useful to me were the newspapers. However, what was not told to subscribers is you could only look for 10 surnames--you learn about this restriction after you've been in the site for a little while. At some point, you are asked to identify 10 surnames and are locked into those 10. (They didn't explain why you had to pick 10 surnames so I locked myself into surnames that weren't that important to me.) Once the surname lock happens you can't search the newspapers for differing surnames for about the next 60 days. And, to have full access to anyone at any time in the newspaper archives you have to pay an extra fee. The good news--the WorldVitalRecords people were very helpful and, they lived up to their promise of money back if you were not satisfied. I ended up canceling my WVR subscription and subscribed to Newspaper Archives for about $73 for two years. I'm very pleased with this subscription as you cannot imagine how many obituary, wedding and other various pieces of information I've located. You are able to copy the newspaper articles and their source information into your database or save or print them. Some of the newspapers available are quite old...into the early 1900's and perhaps even earlier than that in some cases. Of course, there are many newspapers that have not yet been scanned but they keep adding to the database. Me, I'm very pleased with Newspaper Archives and would rate it quite high as it gives us a glimpse of ancestor/family activities, interests and events. I've found a number of "cousins" in these articles as, often, the writer includes the names of everyone who attend. So, in summary, I can't readily compare Newspaper Archives directly to Ancestry which I also like. Yvonne 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
