Spotlight: Various Newspaper Resources by Valerie Beaudrault California Digital Newspaper Collection http://cdnc.ucr.edu/about_us.html The California Digital Newspaper Collection covers the years 1846 through 1922, plus a few months in 2006 and 2008. The collection includes the following newspapers: Daily Alta California, 1849–1891; San Francisco Call, 1890–1912; Amador Ledger, 1900–1911; Imperial Valley Press, 1901–1911; Sacramento Daily Union, 1851–1895; the Los Angeles Herald, 1905–1910; the Californian, 1846–1848; the California Star, 1847–1848; California Star and Californian, 1848; Sacramento Transcript, 1850–1851; Placer Times, 1849–1850; Pacific Rural Press, 1871–1922; Marinscope, November 2008; Santa Cruz Sentinel, April 2008; Sausalito News, 1885–1922; and Black Voice News, March, April, and June 2006. Database users may search the collection by entering keywords in the search box. Searches may be limited to a specific newspaper. You can also browse the collection by newspaper title or by publication date. When browsing by title or date click on the month in the desired year. This will open a new page with a calendar for the month you’ve chosen. Newspaper title links will appear on the dates on which issues were published. Click on the title link to access the issue for the specific date. Newspaper Websites with Searchable Archives In some cases researchers will find that a newspaper’s website will allow them to search its archives and view the full text or an article for free. Two such newspapers are the Times Union of Troy, New York, and the Nashua Telegraph of Nashua, New Hampshire. This is useful, if you are seeking obituaries and death notices for individuals who died more recently or, if your family lived in that area, you might find articles about their activities reported in the newspaper. These might include birth and marriage announcements and participation in the PTA, veteran’s organizations, or local politics. Or, as was the case with my family, I found an article in the Nashua Telegraph, under the title, Expensive Dog Food. I had been searching for articles containing my grandmother’s surname and I found that a dog stole a 15-pound piece of pork from the shed behind my grandmother’s house in March 1949! The game warden and police chief search for the dog, but it “apparently vanished”. My mother had never heard about this before I showed the article to her. "I think I shall never see a finished genealogy." - Unknown (or everyone:)