I subscribe to the Godfrey Library for $35/year as I recall and I have access to Newspaper Archive through that. I found a ton of stuff related to my family in Akron, OH even though all the OH papers they had didn't include Akron. I also found much stuff in their CA papers. It would obviously be most useful if the have papers in the locals you are searching in and your ancestors did things that were noted in the papers. Joe in Minneapolis On Mar 8, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Carol Janes wrote: > I tried it but I got a 7 day free trial and then $19.00 per month. > I found a lot of hits but very few hits that pertained to what I > was looking for. I cancelled it. I didn't think it was worth any > price. > > Carol Janes > > Wildflwr35@aol.com wrote: > Hi > Has anyone ever tried _www.NewspaperArchive.com_ > (http://www.NewspaperArchive.com) ? > > They have a 7 day trial for 19.00 > It comes up with all kinds of hits, but no way to tell if it even > pertains > to the person I'm looking for or even what newspapers it covers. > > Linda in IL > > > > ************************************** > AOL now offers free > email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at > http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

If you have access to Ancestry.com, you have the Newspaper Archive papers available. As with most databases, these do not include all newspapers or all times you would like them. If you would like to have access to old newspapers from around the country, look for the U. S. Newspaper Project pages from the state you are interested in on the Internet. This ongoing project is making many papers available for research on microfilm, some can be interlibrary loaned for little or no charge from the repository. For some large papers, ProQuest is digitizing the historical papers and making them available for lease to libraries. These now include the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Atlanta Constitution. They are fairly expensive and not all libraries will purchase access to them. On 3/8/07, Oakwood <oakwoodjoe@earthlink.net> wrote: > > I subscribe to the Godfrey Library for $35/year as I recall and I > have access to Newspaper Archive through that. I found a ton of stuff > related to my family in Akron, OH even though all the OH papers they > had didn't include Akron. I also found much stuff in their CA papers. > It would obviously be most useful if the have papers in the locals > you are searching in and your ancestors did things that were noted in > the papers. > > Joe in Minneapolis > > > On Mar 8, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Carol Janes wrote: > > > I tried it but I got a 7 day free trial and then $19.00 per month. > > I found a lot of hits but very few hits that pertained to what I > > was looking for. I cancelled it. I didn't think it was worth any > > price. > > > > Carol Janes > > > > Wildflwr35@aol.com wrote: > > Hi > > Has anyone ever tried _www.NewspaperArchive.com_ > > (http://www.NewspaperArchive.com) ? > > > > They have a 7 day trial for 19.00 > > It comes up with all kinds of hits, but no way to tell if it even > > pertains > > to the person I'm looking for or even what newspapers it covers. > > > > Linda in IL > > > > > > > > ************************************** > > AOL now offers free > > email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at > > http://www.aol.com. > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL- > > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL- > > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Robin D. Dombrowsky 2308 Hidden Lake Drive Palm Harbor, FL 34683 727-785-9268