As stated in the first line of the update notice, the site consists of news items and/or resources. Regular publication of newspapers began in 1704 in the United States, therefore it would be near impossible to transcribe all of the newspapers. Our site currently has over 12,000 news items in its database and continues to grow with the daily submission of news items by site visitors. Since we cannot possibly transcribe all newspapers ever published, we have included other newspaper resources for the visitor in the form of links to other sites. If an area only includes links, then no one has submitted news items for that area. There are many links on our site to various societies, newspaper libraries, books containing newspaper transcriptions, and, yes, to ancestry's newspaper collection as they are all relevant to goal of the site which is to be a complete resource for newspaper research. For those without an ancestry subscription, I have also included a link to access their database free of charge for 2 weeks. With over 3,000 counties in the United States alone, and with the constant change of the internet, it takes time to get the information on the site and to keep it current. As we find the information and place the articles or links, we include it in the update email. Since our site consists of only a few dozen volunteers - this is not a site owned by a company - we do our best at adding news items and resources as time allows. As of 12:01 am on Jan. 1, there have been 53 new newspaper transcriptions added to the site, by coordinators and site visitors - two of which are in Ohio and will be noted in the next update. We could always use more volunteers to coordinate a county or state and help provide the visitors with news items and/or resources. If you are interested in helping, see: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/siteinfo/volunteer.shtml Have a wonderful new year! Barbara