Forwarding from another Rootsweb list. Tink >Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:15:52 -0700 > >Now through June 19th, you can search Ancestry's entire historical >newspaper collection free. > >The official blog of Ancestry.com: > > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ancestry/~3/310739665/>Ancestry.com >Doubles its Historical Newspaper Collection ><http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2008/06/12/ancestrycom-doubles-its-historical-newspaper-collection/newspaper-image/> >We doubled the size of our historical newspaper collection - adding a >billion names and 20 million images. Different than census or other >types of records, newspapers can add context through breaking news, >gossip columns, entertainment listings, advertisements and much more. > >As we dug into the collection, we found stories of local town heroes >- such as an article from 1909 in the Syracuse Herald about Patrolman >Brunn who rushed in front of a speeding subway train to save a man >who had fallen from the platform. We found medicinal cures, including >pickled bee stings for rheumatism, described in a 1904 edition of the >Washington Post. We found stories of how folks back then made ends >meet, like the widows described in one 1909 Sheboygan Press article >who could purchase the entire city of Chicago with their fortunes. > >Here are just a handful of newspaper titles in our collection to give >you an idea of its diversity: > * The Anniston Star (Anniston, AL) > * Modesto Bee and Herald News (Modesto, CA) > * Raleigh Register (Raleigh, NC) > * Odessa American (Odessa, TX) > * Xenia Daily Gazette (Xenia, OH) > * Panama City Herald (Panama City, FL) > * Chicago Daily News (Chicago, IL) > * Delta Democrat Times (Greenville, MS) > * Reno Gazette (Reno, NV) > * Pocono Record (Stroudsburg, PA) > * Northwest Arkansas Times (Fayetteville, AR) > >Now through June 19th, you can search our entire historical newspaper >collection free. <http://www.ancestry.com/newspapers>Check out our >newspaper collection and see what interesting stories you can discover!