Newspapers.com has a worldwide collections of papers to help
you find your ancestors in the printed press. And today, I'm
going to share with you with some of the cool features that
I found to help me really use this platform to the fullest.
Be sure to check the link in the description for the show
notes for this video as well as links to other tips and tricks
on how to do newspaper research. You won't want to
miss that. When it first questions people ask when
they're trying to decide which newspaper platform to go with
is does this platform have the newspapers in the area I am
researching? Let me show you how you can find the answer to
that question on Newspapers.com. The way to find
the answer to what Newspapers.com has for the area
I'm researching, click on this menu drop down. And then click
on "Browse.". And then you can go and select a country so for our
Irish viewers let's go ahead and click on Ireland. And click
on Dublin. And then we're going to select a newspaper. How
about the Irish People? And there are the years. And here
are the months. And then we can see the additions. And it looks
like it's just one addition there go back. And let's go this
one the Irish Felon, 1848, June. And here are the pages for that
edition. For our Australian viewers, click on Australia.
There's only one newspaper option, but there are many, many,
many years. Very recent in fact. March- and notice here there are
a number of dates. March 1st, and it seems like it's daily until
March 31st, which is down off the screen there. But you can click
on that. And then you get to the actual pages. And of course the
United States, so all 50 states, I'm going to click on. Oh, and
there's also Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is thrown in there I was
wondering if, like, the Virgin Islands or other locations in
there. I'm not seeing those but if you're looking for Puerto
Rico it's going to be under United States. There is also the
District of Colombia. So all 50 states Puerto Rico and the
District of Colombia. I'm going to click on New Mexico.
And then I'm going to click on Santa Fe. And what's really neat
about this collection is we have both Spanish and English
papers. So here's El Nuevo Mexicano. I kind of
butchered that because my mouth's a little dry. But
here's 1890. And then I can select a month. It would really
be septiembre the thirteen. And here we go. And we can see that
this newspaper is all in Spanish. So, that is how you
access the newspaper collections to find out what is
available for the location that you're researching. Now, this
is a new feature I just discovered recently. And that is
searching the platform by a map. Maybe you know your
ancestors were in a certain area. We can look at the map to
try to isolate the newspapers that serve that area. So we
come over to the menu bar again- Menu. And this time click on
"Maps." Now as you can see we've got 24 newspapers over here in
Hawaii. We'll zoom back out. We have some papers over there in
the Marianas, Guam. We have four in Australia. And then 149
up there in the British area. Just keep zooming in British,
Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Oh, so on and so forth. If we click on
the different little numbers, it'll tell us in Wales. There's
that newspaper. There's 64 serving London and here are
just some of the names. But let's go back over here to the
United States. So, let's say. Just so you know, all I'm doing
is I'm zooming in and out with my mouse button. The rolly
mouse button. There are also in and out buttons here on the
lower right hand corner. So let's say you have the
ancestors from the North Carolina. And you know that
there's somewhere down here near Wilmington. As you zoom in
you can start to see and it splits. So there's a Southport
and Wilmington. So maybe these newspapers serve the
Wilmington area. And it's also possible these Wilmington
newspapers cover the Southport area. It's also possible.
Notice there really aren't any newspapers in this section.
Well, maybe it'll bleed over from the Wilmington area. So,
it's really nice to be able to zoom into the map feature on
Newspapers.com to try to get a sense of what areas are close to
one other. What newspapers are serving that area? And so
forth. Now, there's also the search for papers using names
and other filters that I've shown you before, but let's go
ahead and review that. So, when I click on papers, I come to
this view. And on this view, there's so many great things I
can do. Let's say, I know my ancestor lived in Salem. So,
I'm going to go ahead and type Salem. Now, there's Salem,
Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, well, Peabody, Kansas,
Illinois, Missouri, and that is helpful. There's lots of
different locations where Salem can be but notice there's also
the map. So, let's say I really want Salem in New York. It's
surprising that I don't see Massachusetts. Let me click on
Massachusetts. Maybe it's just so tiny. The Salem. So, there's
no newspaper showing up for Salem. But I can click on New
York and now I have the Washington County Post for
Salem, New York. So, that's a way to help you if you have a
newspaper town that you know of but you're not exactly sure
where that town is located. It's a great strategy to use
that there. So, if you ever want to come out of a filter,
just X out of it. And now you're back the major location I can
click on North Carolina and then I will only see the 23
papers from North Carolina. Now I can also click on "New and
Updated." And it will tell me which ones are updated recently.
So that's pretty handy. Now this next one is kind of exciting
because it's the ability to filter all of your search
results by an event type. And right now the event types you
can filter to are marriage or obituary. So, after you enter a
search term, in this case, I did George Townley. Click on
this results by type and you can filter by obituary or
marriages. I'm going to click on obituary. And now, I have it
filtered by a location. So, I'm going to go ahead and click on
New Jersey. And now, I'm going to see all of the George
Townleys that are in New Jersey or a paper anytime in New
Jersey. So then I can do a slider. Maybe I know that he died
sometime between 1920 and 1940. I now have 15 results and I can
go and look for him from there. Maybe perhaps he dies at Elizabeth
Home in New Jersey, George Townley, Patriot. Gotta love that!
Now this next cool feature is not necessarily universal but I
do want to point it out to you. And that is adding additional
info to your clippings. And then there is a rumor that we might
actually be able to do another thing, so stick around and I'll
tell you what might be coming down the pipeline in the future.
Ao let's say you have a clipping for Clara Shrive and
it has been clipped by another user. And if I click on it, it's
been clipped by myself- see. And I can click edit and I can
change the title that I have here. I can also add more
details here. And these more details will just be details
for my. Maybe I want to keep track that it was "James A
Shreve, a Denver Pioneer," because it said they're right there. So
I can go ahead and click save. And now I have the more details
So I have a title and more details. Now, if you click on it
again. And if you see obituary or maybe marriage, what that is
is the index from newspaper to Ancestry.com. And then when I
click on the name, I'm going to see that extraction that
Ancestry and Newspapers working together created for this
relative. So, I can see all the things that were pulled out
that extraction. If there's a problem, I can go through here.
It's not an obituary. Contains text from another article. Some
Other feedback that I can give. But I can also add additional
or alternate information. So, let's say the name was
misspelled or there's an another initial from other
entries within the same article. Maybe it was Clara A
Shreve. We can click on that. There is the first name, last
name, maiden name. So, maybe I wanted to put here the
name. If there's a made a name, I can put that in there. If
there's a suffix, maybe there's a junior or senior, I can put that
in. And then I can mark what type of reason I have for
changing this information. So, that's one thing I could do.
If the residence was wrong, I can go in here and I can change
the residence. Or I can actually make it say Denver, Colorado or
maybe I even knew the county. And I could put that in there
So, I can do click that on other just because I want to
make it more complete and that way when I transfer this
information over to Ancestry, it's more complete. And then I
can add an additional fact. I can add a personal fact, a
birth, a marriage, a death, or a burial fact if it's not
already showing up in the transcription but it was
showing up in the article. And I can go through. This fact was
not transcribed. Additional information not mentioned in
the obituary. If it's not mentioned in the obituary, I'm
actually going to caution you not to add that information.
That's what your family tree is for. But if there's information
in that transcription and you want to highlight it, go ahead
and add it there. Now, let's say the marriage was mentioned
in the article, I can go ahead and type in the date. So, let's
say it was twelve, one, nineteen, 1919. I can go ahead
and type it. I can use the calendar as well. And if they
say the marriage place, I can type that in as well. The fact
was not transcribed from the article. And then I can go ahead
and add that in and click save. Now, I have to warn you that
don't put anything into the additional facts that shouldn't
be there because you can't just come in here and delete it.
So, it makes it kind of frustrating. So, don't add any
dates if it's not in article. Now, the final feature seems to
be coming or temporarily paused or available on some articles
but not others. And I'm still waiting for the answers to why
that's supposed to be. But this is going to be really, really
neat. And that is we will be able to edit and improve some
of the OCR scans. And as you know, newspapers, they are
scanned by a scanner. And then the text is turned into text. And
sometimes it's gibberish. And if you've seen my video and my
blog about how to work around OCR problems, you know what I'm
talking about. So, in the near future, we will be able to edit
the transcript from the OCR scans. I just haven't been able
to really figure out on every article how to do that
consistently. So, I think it's still in the works. So, if you
want that feature, let me know in the comments below so I can
send that over to Newspapers.com and say, "Hey, my
viewers really like that cool feature." To learn more on how
to use Newspapers.com, be sure to check the playlist up above
and if you want something selected specifically for you,
check out that video right there. Isn't exactly universal.