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Subject: [Q-R] Google Creates a Serious Newspaper Archive
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:55:05 EDT

Google Creates a Serious Newspaper Archive - Google quietly announced this
week that they have quadrupled the number of indexed newspaper articles in
their newspaper archive. This puts the size of their archive at over 4
million articles from newspapers around the world. Google provides free access
to their entire newspaper archive. This is big news for genealogists even
though the rest of the online genealogy community seems to have largely
missed it. Another good free newspaper archive is the US Library of Congress
archive called Chronicling America, which is a 1 million article archive of
US newspapers from 1880 to 1922. Genealogists finally have access to large
geographically diverse newspaper archives that are free alternatives to the
pay-per-view newspaper archive sites.

US Library of Congress Genealogy Reading Room - The US Library of Congress
has an excellent genealogy website and central portal that contains a
wealth of genealogy resources. Well worth checking out.





US National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections - In spite of its
funny name, this is another excellent US Library of Congress website that can be
very useful to genealogists. It provides a central gateway to free
searching of various manuscript repositories scattered throughout the United
States. This is a good place to start for manuscript searches in the US.

US Federal Depository Libraries - This is another major gateway for
genealogy searches in the US. This website provides links to all the federal
depository libraries throughout the US. A good place to start if you are
looking for genealogy information that may be held by a branch of the US
government (such as census information and local census maps, military personnel
records, veteran gravesite locations, etc.).

Last Name Distribution Heat Maps - This interesting website allows a
genealogist to type in any last name and it will provide a last name
distribution heat map by US state. It also provides some interesting statistics on the
last name including common variations. If you scroll farther down the
page, it will provide links for last name geographic distributions for Canada,
Germany, Switzerland and Spain. This website is based on last name listings
in public telephone books, which is becoming less reliable with the
prevalence of unlisted cellular phone numbers. Still, it could be helpful when
searching for a living relative.

Google Reader Allows You to Share Content - Google Reader is very popular
with our readers. Google has just added some new features to Google Reader
that allow you to share content with friends. This is one small step that
Google is making to become more like Facebook. See the article for more
details.

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