I must not know how to use GB. Searching for "William Gorman" I get about 8,000 hits. Narrow that down and I find the search picks up "William" with any last name. I could probably do better throwing darts blindfolded. Gale Gorman Houston On Apr 2, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Kith-n-Kin wrote: Carl I've had GenealogyBank for several years and find it invaluable in my work. However, in order to determine whether it is useful to you, I suggest you go to the site and preview the locations, news sources, and years of same. Compare those results to the areas you are currently researching. If there are matches, I'd say give it a trial. It is pretty amazing the "meat" you can put on the bones of your ancestors and relatives this way, with the social columns, the legal notices, deed changes, and general "news of the day." I would never say "best" about any site I've used so far. If I could, I would subscribe to everything (well, most things), but I prefer to continue to put food on the table <G> so I make choices based on where and when I'm researching. Pat In Tucson -----Original Message----- From: roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Carl M Sprouse Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 12:03 PM To: ROOTS Digest Mailing List Subject: [ROOTS-L] GenealogyBank.com newspaper collection vs. NewspaperArchives.com newspaper collection Would like to know the difference between the two online newspaper collections. I had a free membership for a while from NewspaperArchives.com and found quite a bit of info of my relatives in Kansas and California. I keep getting these glamourous ads from GenealogyBank.com about their collection being the best. They're offering a percentage off for Legacy software users. Just wondering if this is a gimmick or what. Would appreciate some comment from those of you with knowledge of the two collections. Thanks, Carl Sprouse

Gale These search engines do a "proximate" model of searching. So, if you use "Gorman" "William" you will come up with hits that have "William" and "Gorman" within a certain number of words of each other. So, no, it is not perfect, you still have much work to do, but darts? Well, I don't know about that. It also has the usual problems of names that are "like" some other word. My names include "Park" "Hope" and similar names. So, I get every "Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones hope..." for my "Hope Smith". You also have to think about every possible variation on a name. For example, I have a great-uncle who was Horatio Nixon Palmer. I have to look up "H N Palmer" "Nick Palmer" "Mr. Palmer" etc. And, of course, "Mrs. H N Palmer" (rather than wifey's name). In your case, you also have "Wm Gorman" But, it beats the heck out of reading microfilm, I'll tell you that! And, you get to read all kinds of other interesting things at the same time. Pat -----Original Message----- From: Gale Gorman [mailto:gale_gorman@me.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 3:34 PM To: Kith-n-Kin Cc: 'Carl M Sprouse'; 'ROOTS Digest Mailing List' Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] GenealogyBank.com newspaper collection vs. NewspaperArchives.com newspaper collection I must not know how to use GB. Searching for "William Gorman" I get about 8,000 hits. Narrow that down and I find the search picks up "William" with any last name. I could probably do better throwing darts blindfolded. Gale Gorman Houston On Apr 2, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Kith-n-Kin wrote: Carl I've had GenealogyBank for several years and find it invaluable in my work. However, in order to determine whether it is useful to you, I suggest you go to the site and preview the locations, news sources, and years of same. Compare those results to the areas you are currently researching. If there are matches, I'd say give it a trial. It is pretty amazing the "meat" you can put on the bones of your ancestors and relatives this way, with the social columns, the legal notices, deed changes, and general "news of the day." I would never say "best" about any site I've used so far. If I could, I would subscribe to everything (well, most things), but I prefer to continue to put food on the table <G> so I make choices based on where and when I'm researching. Pat In Tucson -----Original Message----- From: roots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Carl M Sprouse Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 12:03 PM To: ROOTS Digest Mailing List Subject: [ROOTS-L] GenealogyBank.com newspaper collection vs. NewspaperArchives.com newspaper collection Would like to know the difference between the two online newspaper collections. I had a free membership for a while from NewspaperArchives.com and found quite a bit of info of my relatives in Kansas and California. I keep getting these glamourous ads from GenealogyBank.com about their collection being the best. They're offering a percentage off for Legacy software users. Just wondering if this is a gimmick or what. Would appreciate some comment from those of you with knowledge of the two collections. Thanks, Carl Sprouse