Just before the holidays 2020-style, I received this photo from my daughter-in-law, Melissa.  These are her daughters! The "sailor" was transferring to a new assignment and they hadn't seen her for a while and decided to surprise her at the airport in New Orleans, I think.  "J" looks very dashing in her uniform and as we sat this past week at the Thanksgiving table we were sad to hear that she was quarantined somewhere at her post for the holiday due to a fellow mate have the virus.  

Thanksgiving and Christmas time turns our thoughts to our family members current and past.  Where will you locate the information for those ancestral profiles?

Last night as I watched a webinar via my genealogical society from Legacy, (https://familytreewebinars.com/), I realized that searching newspapers just makes sense for us genealogy folks.  This website has a ton of related webinars on that topic.  Here, then, are my notes (not the handout), as I tried to soak in the rich harvest of "what's out there" for us, as genealogists, in re-structuring our family's history via newspapers.  I hope you will let me know if the links prove fruitful for you, or which links you thought helpful.  

1. Lib-Guides: for example: https://libguides.uwf.edu/histnews

1. What is a lib-guide?   

   The LibGuides system is commonly used by librarians to create research or subject guides. Guides are the outermost component that functions as a mini-website on a topic or subject. They contain pages, boxes, and content.  This is how you know, which newspapers, for example, the university or library has access to.  This collection may be physical--they have the actual/physical newspaper or they may have a digital collection.  

   Whoops?!!  Just about the time that you find a collection that you want to investigate, you click and a message pops up requiring your "login" or "password".  It is usually a free or low cost proposition to obtain a library card for state institutions.  Simply walk-in or follow the directions on the log-in screen.  In my next blog, we will follow through with more about accessing the goodies featured in the "lib-guide".

   Community Patron Cards available for this particular institution.