forwarded from another rootsweb list: Genealogists who have used this important source of information for newspaper research should note that Google stopped its historic newspaper archive project. The project had already scanned roughly 2,000 historic newspapers from around the world. Some of the scanned newspapers were particularly valuable because they were from less developed countries that lacked traditional genealogical records. The scanning project, started in 2008, was in keeping with Google?s mission to organize the world?s information and make it universally accessible and useful. During the project, Google worked closely with newspaper partners on a number of initiatives to make older newspapers accessible and searchable online.   The Google News Archive will not be taken o?ine right away. Users can continue to search digitized newspapers at http://news.google.com/archivesearch. Google does not plan to introduce any further features or functionality to the site and is no longer accepting new micro?lm or digital ?les for processing. NGS Magazine July September 2011 Volume 37, Number 3