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*Newspapers report family information within notices of births, marriages, and deaths (obituaries), and local news. | |||
*Newspapers usually began before government birth, marriage, and death records, often published soon after the initial settlement of a locality. | |||
*Newspapers may serve as a substitute for civil records that were destroyed. | |||
*Unlike most government records, newspaper articles are not limited to a form. Thus, newspapers may contain details not found in more structured records. | |||
*Newspapers can report marriages, deaths or accomplishments of people who no longer live in the area but who still have friends or family there. | |||
*Newspapers may report events in the life of local inhabitants even when these events occurred elsewhere. | |||
{{Tip|Check newspapers from a week or two before or after a wedding, funeral, or wedding anniversary to find mention of out-of-town visitors and relatives.}} | |||
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==What can you find in newspapers?== | ==What can you find in newspapers?== | ||
==How do you find newspapers?== | ==How do you find newspapers?== | ||
Revision as of 14:57, 30 December 2021
Guide to locating newspapers for ancestry, family history, and genealogy research.
Why use newspapers?[edit | edit source]
- Newspapers report family information within notices of births, marriages, and deaths (obituaries), and local news.
- Newspapers usually began before government birth, marriage, and death records, often published soon after the initial settlement of a locality.
- Newspapers may serve as a substitute for civil records that were destroyed.
- Unlike most government records, newspaper articles are not limited to a form. Thus, newspapers may contain details not found in more structured records.
- Newspapers can report marriages, deaths or accomplishments of people who no longer live in the area but who still have friends or family there.
- Newspapers may report events in the life of local inhabitants even when these events occurred elsewhere.
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Check newspapers from a week or two before or after a wedding, funeral, or wedding anniversary to find mention of out-of-town visitors and relatives. |
What can you find in newspapers?[edit | edit source]
How do you find newspapers?[edit | edit source]
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Many newspapers are online. You should consult the Wiki article on newspapers for each country to understand how to find and search its newspapers |
Sidebar Links to Wiki Articles[edit | edit source]
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Online Genealogical Records Pages[edit | edit source]
On the main page for each U.S. State page and country page, a blue button leads to a listing of online record collections.
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main page to link to the Online Genealogy Records page.
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- Also, all the available Online Genealogy Records pages are linked at Online Genealogy Records by Location.
FamilySearch Catalog[edit | edit source]
- Newspapers collected by FamilySearch, usually digitized and online, are listed in the FamilySearch catalog. Enter the name of the country in the "Place Field" and click "Search". A list of record categories will be provided. Select "Census".
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main page to link to the Online Genealogy Records page.
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