“To find the right newspaper for your research,” noted Cooke, “look for papers in the geographic community where your ancestors were known to live.” And to search those published during the timeframe they lived there.Ĭooke demonstrated 6 helpful online tools for finding and searching historic newspapers online. Upon closer review, she realized they were dressed up mimicking famous personalities from the popular show Laugh-in from her mother’s generation. Cooke showed an old newspaper photo she discovered online of her mother as a young girl with two friends. In their forgotten pages, a determined sleuth can turn up birth, marriage, death records, maiden names, names of ancestors’ friends and relatives, insight into their long forgotten community.Īnd even photographs-which can also be insightful portals to the cultural or sociological content of an ancestor’s era. Cooke is the host of The Genealogy Gems Podcast.Ĭooke explained that historical newspapers are rich possible resources for family history information. That was the essence of Lisa Louise Cooke’s message in her presentation “Tech Tools that Catapult the Newspaper Research Process” given at The National Genealogy Society 2014 Family History Conference in Richmond, Virginia, on May 8 th. And that means they are much more accessible to family historians-if they know where and how to find them.
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