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Ancestry Daily News
3/22/2002 - Archive
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Ancestry Historical Newspaper Collection Launches |
Ancestry Historical Newspaper Collection Launches
For the past three hundred years, Americans have been turning to newspapers
to learn about the events that would affect their lives and the world around
them. Genealogists have long known the value that these windows into the past
can add to family histories. Beyond the broad insights found in the news of
yesteryear, newspapers also provide news of individuals in the form of obituaries,
birth and marriage announcements, anniversaries, graduations, promotions, reunions,
legal notices concerning probate proceedings, divorce cases, estate or tax sales,
notices of missing persons, and more.
Ancestry.com is now making it easier than ever to access newspapers from the
past with the launch of the Ancestry Historical Newspaper Collection. The collection
opens with one hundred thousand pages from the following newspapers:
From New York
--- New York Daily Times, 1851-17
--- New York Evening Times, 1855, 1856
--- New York Times, 1857-66
From Indiana
--- Dawson's Fort Wayne Daily Times, 1861
--- Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 1921
--- The Fort Wayne Sentinel, 1905, 1909
--- The Weekly Sentinel, 1907, 1912, 1913.
From Reno, NV
--- Weekly Evening Gazette, 1879
--- Nevada State Journal, 1870-75, 1911-13
--- Reno Evening Gazette, 1876-95, 1897-1902, 1904-06, 1911, 1915- 17,
1919-23
--- Daily Nevada State Journal, 1876-1907
--- Weekly Nevada State Journal, 1875
In addition to these titles, Ancestry plans to add one thousand pages per working
day to keep the collection growing. With over 50 million pages slated to be
posted, Ancestry.com Historical Newspaper Collection subscribers will soon have
access to the largest collection of historical newspapers ever assembled.
Our free viewer software allows you to see these pages in the comfort of your
home, with all of the convenience and power you have learned to expect from
Ancestry.com. The Newspaper Collection is fully searchable, and individual pages
can be saved to your home computer or printed for your family history files.
At Ancestry.com, it is our goal to make our collections available at a very
reasonable rate. This new collection may not interest all researchers and so
is being offered as a separate subscription. This keeps the overall price of
our core services affordable. Current annual subscribers to any of our collections
can add a Historical Newspaper subscription at a greatly discounted rate.
Subscription rates:
--- Annual Subscription Upgrade: $29.95 -- One year of access for those who
currently subscribe to Basic, U.S. Census or UK/Ireland Collection.
--- Super Subscription Upgrade (limited time offer) $19.95 -- One year of access
for current annual subscribers that already have all other subscription packages
-- Basic, U.S. Census, and UK/Ireland subscriptions.
--- Super Subscription (limited time offer): $149.80 -- One year of access to
all four Ancestry.com collections (Basic, U.S. Census, UK/Ireland and Historical
Newspapers) for new subscribers.
--- Annual Historical Newspaper Subscription: $69.95 -- One year of access to
the Historical Newspaper Collection only.
--- Quarterly Historical Newspapers Subscription: $24.95 -- Three months of
access to the Historical Newspaper Collection only.
This new offering comes at an exciting time at Ancestry.com where, as announced
a few weeks ago, our Basic subscribers will be seeing more and more images accompanying
new datasets at no additional cost. In addition, U.S. Census subscribers will
be seeing exclusive images of the 1930 U.S. Federal Census going online within
hours of its release. The new Historical Newspaper Collection promises to be
just as exciting and valuable to researchers. Watch future additions of the
"Ancestry Daily News" for more information.
To view a sample image from the collection, go to:
www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?sourceid=2116&targetid=3493
To subscribe to the Ancestry Historical Newspaper Collection, go to:
www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?sourceid=2116&targetid=3234
Other Recent Announcements
Ancestry.com Launches New Images Online With Posting of Virginia Genealogical
Society Quarterly www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=831&key=A534701
Ancestry.com to Publish 1930 Census Records Online Within Hours of Official
Government Release www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=831&key=A541101
The 1930 Census and Finding Aids to be Posted at Ancestry.com
www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=831&key=A529901
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