The Medina Library has a new book in its collection on doing newspaper research. Titled The Family Tree Historical Newspapers Guide: How to Find Your Ancestors in Archived Newspapers, it is authored by James M. Beidler. You might be familiar with James' other book Trace Your German Roots Online: A Complete Guide to German Genealogy Websites that I reviewed back in July 2016.
All of the attention to detail and thoroughness he brought to German roots, he now brings to doing newspaper research.
His first chapters deal with the history of newspapers and WHY genealogists should be using them for all of the wonderful information they contain. Besides recording major life events like births, marriages and deaths, newspapers record a myriad of other details from our ancestor's lives, like land transactions, participation in various social groups, criminal activity and who visited who for Thanksgiving dinner!
Next the book covers how to track down newspapers in archives and libraries. Then he shares the free and subscription databases that offer access to digitized newspapers, such as Chronicling America, Newspapers.com and Genealogy Bank.
Next he covers ethnic and foreign newspapers and lastly he covers how to preserve and cite your newspaper articles.
So follow this link to put a hold on a copy today - because Medina's copy is checked out to me right now!
In case you haven't figured it out, I LOVE newspaper research!
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