Hi Everyone This is a new site site that is very interesting and could be very useful it is old newpapers all over the United States. It is searchable. tina ----- Original Message ----- From: "Genealogy Review" <gentodayw-owner@listbot.com> To: "List Member" <tina@grnco.net> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 7:13 PM Subject: [Genealogy Review] Announcement: Genealogy Today Partners with The Olden Times > Genealogy Review - http://www.genealogyreview.com/ > > --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- > Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can > buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From > consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you > waiting for? Try eBay today. > http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Genealogy Today (www.genealogytoday.com) is pleased to announce a joint > project with The Olden Times aimed at establishing a searchable index of > newspaper clippings for genealogists. > > Established in 2000, The Olden Times scans makes scanned images of > individual articles from original issues of 18th, 19th and early 20th > century newspapers from around the United States. "Old newspapers are > treasure troves of clues," explained Barbara Allen, the founder of The > Olden Times. "The problem is that not many of them are indexed, at least > not for the names of those of our ancestors who weren't rich & famous!" > > Launched on the Genealogy Today web site in June, this index of over 2,000 > clippings from The Olden Times is searchable by surname, state, year and > type of article. "Barbara has put together a tremendous collection of > priceless images for genealogists," commented Illya D'Addezio, owner of > Genealogy Today. "I am excited to be able to make an index of this wealth > of information available on our site." > > "The index will include old news articles, birth, death and marriage > announcements, legal notices, and advertisements," added Barbara. > "Advertisements, an often overlooked resource, may help pinpoint exactly > what kind of store your great-grandparents had. And, the news of a local > fire may explain why your great-grand uncle picked up and moved to > California." > > "While many old newspapers may be safely preserved in microfilmed > collections, you might have trouble finding any mention of an ancestor > unless you already know of an event that might have been reported and the > newspaper in which the item would have appeared. Now with the index at > Genealogy Today, you can research all of your surnames in a matter of > minutes." > > To access the index, visit > http://www.genealogytoday.com/times/olden/index.html > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, write to gentodayw-unsubscribe@listbot.com

Thanks Tina, Brenda ajmac@internet.co.nz > From: "Tina Easley" <tina@grnco.net> > Reply-To: LAMBERT-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:04:14 -0700 > To: LAMBERT-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [LAMBERT] Fw: [Genealogy Review] Announcement: Genealogy Today > Partners with The Olden Times > Resent-From: LAMBERT-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:08:59 -0600 > > Hi Everyone > This is a new site site that is very interesting and could be very useful it > is old newpapers all over the United States. It is searchable. > tina > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Genealogy Review" <gentodayw-owner@listbot.com> > To: "List Member" <tina@grnco.net> > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 7:13 PM > Subject: [Genealogy Review] Announcement: Genealogy Today Partners with The > Olden Times > > >> Genealogy Review - http://www.genealogyreview.com/ >> >> --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- >> Have you visited eBayTM lately? The Worlds Marketplace where you can >> buy and sell practically anything keeps getting better. From >> consumer electronics to movies, find it all on eBay. What are you >> waiting for? Try eBay today. >> http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/ebay >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Genealogy Today (www.genealogytoday.com) is pleased to announce a joint >> project with The Olden Times aimed at establishing a searchable index of >> newspaper clippings for genealogists. >> >> Established in 2000, The Olden Times scans makes scanned images of >> individual articles from original issues of 18th, 19th and early 20th >> century newspapers from around the United States. "Old newspapers are >> treasure troves of clues," explained Barbara Allen, the founder of The >> Olden Times. "The problem is that not many of them are indexed, at least >> not for the names of those of our ancestors who weren't rich & famous!" >> >> Launched on the Genealogy Today web site in June, this index of over 2,000 >> clippings from The Olden Times is searchable by surname, state, year and >> type of article. "Barbara has put together a tremendous collection of >> priceless images for genealogists," commented Illya D'Addezio, owner of >> Genealogy Today. "I am excited to be able to make an index of this wealth >> of information available on our site." >> >> "The index will include old news articles, birth, death and marriage >> announcements, legal notices, and advertisements," added Barbara. >> "Advertisements, an often overlooked resource, may help pinpoint exactly >> what kind of store your great-grandparents had. And, the news of a local >> fire may explain why your great-grand uncle picked up and moved to >> California." >> >> "While many old newspapers may be safely preserved in microfilmed >> collections, you might have trouble finding any mention of an ancestor >> unless you already know of an event that might have been reported and the >> newspaper in which the item would have appeared. Now with the index at >> Genealogy Today, you can research all of your surnames in a matter of >> minutes." >> >> To access the index, visit >> http://www.genealogytoday.com/times/olden/index.html >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, write to gentodayw-unsubscribe@listbot.com > > > ==== LAMBERT Mailing List ==== > If you'd like to be a Rootsweb sponsor--or donor (I am!)--there are > instructions for joining by mail or on-line at > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > >