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<p>[QUOTE="smallaxe, post: 4289338, member: 13430"]Newspapers.com is one of the pricier choices. I generally don't stay subscribed. I usually cancel my subscription right after paying so that it doesn't auto renew. I let it lapse when the subscription period ends. Then, I will renew when I actually need it for a project I'm working on, and only pay the for period of time I expect to use it. If it's a one-off thing I want to see, sometimes I can get away with just using a 7 day trial. Sometimes I'll just do 1 month (about $8), and sometimes 6 months ($45). I almost never do the more expensive publisher extra that includes papers more in the vintage era. Newspapers.com is the most expensive option, but I find it the most successful option. I usually find the best stuff there, and it's really easy to clip articles. Searching success for old newspapers is completely dependent on the quality of the OCR conversion of images to text. Maybe newspapers.com has done a better job of that. The OCR issue is also why it's important to search a couple different ways in case one of your key words was incorrectly digitized and indexed. I've found very useful articles that way that I would have missed otherwise.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another option I use is genealogybank.com, which is about half the price of newspapers.com. It's pretty good too. There are free options. Library of Congress has newspapers online, but the search is kind of hit and miss, the clipping is a bit less convenient, and the amount of content is limited. There are also free state by state archives for many states in the US, often hosted by some university. Some of them are very good, and have a lot of content, but limited of course within the boundaries of that state. Here are some examples:</p><p><a href="https://www.loc.gov/newspapers/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.loc.gov/newspapers/" rel="nofollow">Library of Congress</a></p><p><a href="https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/" rel="nofollow">Georgia</a></p><p><a href="https://panewsarchive.psu.edu/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://panewsarchive.psu.edu/" rel="nofollow">Pennsylvania</a></p><p><a href="https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/" rel="nofollow">New York</a></p><p>You can usually find them by googling something like this:</p><p><i>Montana historic newspapers</i></p><p>I wish I was as tuned in to similar resources in Europe. I have a long term project researching my wife's great aunt, who despite being an elderly American woman, lived in Belgium throughout WWII, and was involved in the Belgian underground (the Comet Line - Réseau Comète). It's been a struggle finding mentions of her (and the EU privacy rules contribute greatly to that difficulty).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="smallaxe, post: 4289338, member: 13430"]Newspapers.com is one of the pricier choices. I generally don't stay subscribed. I usually cancel my subscription right after paying so that it doesn't auto renew. I let it lapse when the subscription period ends. Then, I will renew when I actually need it for a project I'm working on, and only pay the for period of time I expect to use it. If it's a one-off thing I want to see, sometimes I can get away with just using a 7 day trial. Sometimes I'll just do 1 month (about $8), and sometimes 6 months ($45). I almost never do the more expensive publisher extra that includes papers more in the vintage era. Newspapers.com is the most expensive option, but I find it the most successful option. I usually find the best stuff there, and it's really easy to clip articles. Searching success for old newspapers is completely dependent on the quality of the OCR conversion of images to text. Maybe newspapers.com has done a better job of that. The OCR issue is also why it's important to search a couple different ways in case one of your key words was incorrectly digitized and indexed. I've found very useful articles that way that I would have missed otherwise. Another option I use is genealogybank.com, which is about half the price of newspapers.com. It's pretty good too. There are free options. Library of Congress has newspapers online, but the search is kind of hit and miss, the clipping is a bit less convenient, and the amount of content is limited. There are also free state by state archives for many states in the US, often hosted by some university. Some of them are very good, and have a lot of content, but limited of course within the boundaries of that state. Here are some examples: [URL='https://www.loc.gov/newspapers/']Library of Congress[/URL] [URL='https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/']Georgia[/URL] [URL='https://panewsarchive.psu.edu/']Pennsylvania[/URL] [URL='https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/']New York[/URL] You can usually find them by googling something like this: [I]Montana historic newspapers[/I] I wish I was as tuned in to similar resources in Europe. I have a long term project researching my wife's great aunt, who despite being an elderly American woman, lived in Belgium throughout WWII, and was involved in the Belgian underground (the Comet Line - Réseau Comète). It's been a struggle finding mentions of her (and the EU privacy rules contribute greatly to that difficulty).[/QUOTE]
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