Civic Pride 1936
I was looking through some old newspapers articles and this one caught my eye. As I read this 1936 Wyoming article I was thinking how things haven’t changed much; we want to preserve… Continue reading
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Quest – Sheriff Pat Baker Tree
In my last blog I wrote about Sheriff Pat Baker’s tree and how I came to find other trees for him but what I did not share, which I will do now is… Continue reading
Authors – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Once again the literary Gods intervened. I was in hot pursuit of James Carpenter in a Jan 13, 1887 newspaper but stumbled upon this item: Alfred Tennyson I know Alfred Lord Tennyson not… Continue reading
Amistad Africans 1841
I had planned on doing another blog but while researching the McLeod Case for a neighbor (I live in the Detroit area, he lives across the lake in Canada) I saw a small… Continue reading
How To Work with Google News Archive
Step by step lesson on how to work with the huge Google News Archive collection.
Owosso, Michigan – The Argus Press
The Google News Archive list has some wrong newspaper dates. Take for instance the The Argus-Press published in Owosso, Michigan. The November 13, 1911 newspaper is a November 11, 1972 newspaper which is… Continue reading
Update: inauguration speech
I added a link to President Obam’s speech . . The president will be giving his inauguration speech and I thought it would be interesting to see what other presidents have had to… Continue reading
Cassie M. Johnson 1974
Well here is the first of my “old” stories. In my files I had fifty-three (53) items for which I have not been able to find a family tree, where I could send… Continue reading
Who Is He?
In the previous blogs we got the link to the Google News Archive list of old newspapers, an Enhanced News Archive List with Locations, a broken out version which lists only the newspapers published… Continue reading
Clip It ! – How to do a screen print
In the last three blogs we got the link to the Google News Archive list of old newspapers, an Enhanced News Archive List with Locations which shows where those newspapers were published and… Continue reading
USA Only – Enhanced Newspaper Archive Feb 2013
Update: 21 Aug 2013 The Google News Archive list is very useful but needed to be enhanced by adding the name of country or state where the newspaper was published. I completed that… Continue reading
Enhanced Newspaper Archive List
If you have ever worked with Google News Archive list then you know that it only contains the names of newspapers, not where they were published. I’ve enhanced that chart by adding the… Continue reading