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Ancestry.com - Investigating Marriage Announcements

Article by George Morgan.

Genealogical Research in Newspapers - Your Guide to Using Newspapers for Genealogical Research

Links and resources to help you make use of information in newspapers in your genealogical research efforts.

Genealogy.com: Internet Genealogy - Lesson 5: Using Newspapers for Research

Getting the Big Picture of the Past Through Newspapers

Article by James W. Petty.

ProGenealogists, Inc.: German Newspapers in Genealogy (1780-1914)

Germany. Describes genealogical uses of German newspapers, availablity, and indexing projects.

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From Family Tree Magazine.

Skillbuilding: Using Newspapers Effectively

From the Board for Certification of Genealogists.

The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy - Ancestry.com Wiki

The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy is a reference book published by Ancestry Publishing. The first edition was published in 1984 and was edited by Arlene H. Eakle and Johni Cerny. A revised edition, edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, was published in 1997. The current edition, the third, was published in 2006 and was also edited by Szucs and Luebking. In 2010, Ancestry.com digitized the content of The Source and made it available in wiki format as one of the foundational sources for the Ancestry.com Wiki. Each chapter has been broken into one or more series of articles.

Using Newspapers as a Genealogical Resource

Presentation handout by by Joe Suplicki.

Using Newspapers for Genealogical Research

From the the Allen County Public Library.

Using Newspapers for Genealogical Research

From the State Historical Society of Missouri.