While the homepage says that the site contains more than 20,000 papers, the page dedicated to those papers had the number at just more than 18,500 as of the end of 2020. Its homepage announces that it adds millions of newspaper pages each month, with a total currently sitting at more than 629 million digital pages.
claims to be the largest online newspaper archive. Two of the largest digitized historical newspaper databases, available both to libraries and individuals at a relatively inexpensive subscription rate, are and. Not surprisingly, companies have monetized that access. Modern researchers need access to those articles to understand their lineages and the times in which their ancestors lived.
From the births, deaths, marriages, and divorces to the awards and achievements, arrests, accidents, graduations, and other milestones, newspapers often chronicled it all for voracious readers. Genealogy depends heavily on newspaper research to peel back the many layers of what makes up a life. Even the Wall Street Journal has noticed this surge ( wsj.com/articles/covid-coronavirus-lockdown-genealogy-family-tree-history-ancestry-11594659103 subscription required to read the entire article)
Fascinated by pictures dug out of old scrapbooks and names unearthed from records, they need some way to find out more information about their newly discovered family members. Suddenly homebound people have more time to explore the recesses of the past. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, genealogy has gotten even more popular. Since time machines do not (yet?) exist, daily papers are our best tool for taking the names and dates attached to our ancestors and making them flesh. Newspapers provide a vital look into the past for the people of the present. My public library coworkers were instantly intrigued, and a new legion of newspaper searchers was born. “She shot him! Right in the middle of the street!” That exclamation unintentionally-and perhaps rather loudly-escaped my mouth one day while researching a patron’s family member.
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