Friday Finds in Newspapers: 6 March 2015

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:

• Checking Out Chicago’s Old German Newspapers by Julie Cahill Tarr at Julie's Genealogy & History Hub - Got Germans? Got Germans in German newspapers with German script? Check this out!
• How to Search for Old Newspaper Articles in the Google News Archive by Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers - a handy video tutorial
• North Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive by Donnie Summerlin at the blog of the Digital Library of Georgia - "The North Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to six newspaper titles published in three north Georgia cities (Dalton, Gainesville, and Rome) from 1850 to 1922." Click on the link to read more.
• Bill Silver Digital Newspaper Archive by Gail Dever at Genealogy à la carte - for those of us with British Columbia, Canada ancestors and relatives
• Four early newspapers added to historic collection by Sam Thompson at From Our Corner (the Washington Office of the Secretary of State’s blog) - titles from Anacortes, Oroville, Shelton, and Yakima

Also:

• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 34 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Washington.
• The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 36 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Victoria.

Videos and Tutorials for Your Newspaper Searches

The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program blog has a helpful article out with links various videos and tutorials available for different digital newspaper sites, including Chronicling America and the University of Illinois. Check it out here.

A Great Educational Resource for Newspaper Research

I'd like to recommend a website that is a great educational resource for newspaper research, The Ancestor Hunt by Kenneth R. Marks. Ken writes articles on his blog about where to find digitized newspapers online and how to use them to find what you want. He has a list of research links, as well as a number of genealogy books he recommends. The finest feature on his site is his collection of video tutorials that demonstrate step-by-step the various digitized newspaper collections online and how to search, browse, and utilize them.

Here's an example of one of his many videos. They are available through YouTube, and are free to watch.

Viewing the video on this blog may not work well, because of the small size. Just click on the logo "YouTube" right under the video to watch it full size on the YouTube site.

Happy learning!