[or-roots] Knight Library Digitizing Newspaper

[Carol Peterson]

Great info, Robyn. Thank you! 
Carol Peterson 

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You can also access the Knight Library materials through this link: 
http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/ 


Google has a number of newspapers which have been digitized now. You can find them through news.google.com and then going to the archives section. I like their ability to search by a date range, and their digital images of the newspaper pages are clear enough that a screen capture program like abbyy screenshot reader ($10) can be used to do a fair job of OCRing the material - or you can stick with the Text view that Google provides. Both can save a significant amount of typing if the information is clean enough. My favorite newspapers to look at are the Spokane newspapers pre 1900 (they did an amazing job of covering the whole of the Oregon territory) and the Eugene Register Guard. 



Another favorite is the California Digital Newspaper Collection. Like the Spokane papers, it did a fantastic job of covering happenings in Oregon as well as Northern California, where so many Oregonian pioneers traveled too. http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc 



Additionally, I have found that the Southern Oregon Digital collection has some great materials digitized. While not newspapers, there are a lot of other materials to search through 
http://soda.sou.edu/about.html 


On Footnote (the subscription service) my favorite aspect of their search engine is the ability to limit your search to materials added in the last 30, 60 or 90 days. 

More sites are digitizing collections all the time. To find them, search in google by the state name and "digital newspaper collection". And, when you run across a tidbit or story that catches your eye or fills in a gap in your knowledge of an area, consider taking a few extra minutes to transcribe it and send the transcription to one of the sites like Orgenweb or Genealogytrails so that it can be added to their free webpages for others to find too. 



Robyn 
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From: Denise Sproed <DeniseSproed at onlinenw.com> 
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http://www.theoutlookonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=124634063941779600 has an old article about the Grant that will allow the digitizing Oregon Newspapers from 1860-1922 

It was referred to as the statewide Oregon Digital Newspaper Project and can be accessed thru the website: 
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ 

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/#Oregon is a link to the Oregon section 

Thanks Glen for mentioning the resource! 

Denise 

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The only one I subscribe too is Ancestry, all the others seem to be knockoffs of Ancestry 
or are owned by ancestry. 
Bye the way UO knight Library is dititizing all of their newspapers it is through a National 
Program, I do not have the URL handy, and there are other genealogy Resources available 
that are free. 
Glen Jones Portland 


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