Howdy List Members, FYI: Some Folks may be Interested in this: ================================================================== HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS ARE COMING TO ANCESTRY.COM ================================================================== Have you ever wondered what life was like for your ancestors during the Civil War? The Roaring 20's? The Depression? Newspapers can give us a window into their world, revealing what the nation was thinking about during these and other historic eras. In addition, newspapers can also give us important details about the ancestors we seek. Wedding and birth announcements, obituaries, school graduation and military appointments are all chronicled in our nations newspapers. In the next few weeks, Ancestry.com will be bringing these valuable genealogical resources as close as your home computer, launching an entirely new subscription collection of historical documents. Never before available at this level of convenience or quality, our Historical Newspaper Collection will begin with newspapers from the western frontier in the 1870's, the Midwest at the turn of the century, and the long time standard of our nation's news, The New York Times (1857-1866). We will start with 100,000 newspaper pages and add 1,000 pages per working day to keep the collection growing. With over 50 million pages slated to be posted, we will soon have the largest collection of historical newspapers ever assembled. Our free viewer software allows you to see these pages in the comfort of your home, with all of the convenience and power you have learned to expect from Ancestry.com. The Newspaper Collection is fully searchable, and individual pages can be saved to your home computer or printed for your family history files. At Ancestry.com, it is our goal to make our collections available at a very reasonable rate. This new collection may not interest all researchers and so is being offered as a separate subscription. This keeps the overall price of our core services affordable. Current subscribers to any of our collections can add a Historical Newspaper subscription at a greatly discounted rate. This new offering comes at an exciting time at Ancestry.com where, as announced a few weeks ago, our core data subscribers will be seeing more and more images accompanying new datasets at no additional cost. In addition, census subscribers will be seeing exclusive images of the 1930 U.S. Federal Census going on line within hours of its release. The new Historical Newspaper Collection promises to be just as exciting and valuable to researchers. Get a flavor of the Ancestry Historical Newspaper Collection at: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?sourceid=2079&targetid=3491