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