Their website says “The largest online newspaper archive”. Is this an on-line database you might want to subscribe to?
- Author: Newspapers.com (iArchives Inc., previously Automated Solutions Inc.) was acquired by Ancestry
- Published: Beginning 2010, Utah, USA
- Pages: 634 million+
Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 634 million+ pages of historical newspapers from 20,100+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond.
Newspapers.com website
Subscription needed
Newspapers.com is a subscription resource. If you use the site in conjunction with an Ancestry.com or Ancestry.ca subscription you will be able to gain access to their searches in a very efficient fashion. The site can also be used on it’s own.
Is it worth it?
Before I subscribed to the site I thought I was doing pretty well with finding newspaper articles. Through using microfilm at the University library and the Google News Archive I had found 150+ articles.
After I subscribed to Newspapers.com I was able to find an additional 560+ articles in less than a year. I don’t think you can argue with my success. To me it has been of tremendous value in my search.
eCollections
Find more eCollections we have used during our research in the article Family History eCollections.
Document Your Sources
You are probably a Genealogist if you have found this website so we shouldn’t have to remind you about documenting your sources. …but document your sources. You can read about our experience in the article entitled Sources.
