[or-roots] or-roots Digest, Vol 49, Issue 9
JOHN LAURA MCKINNEY
birdman_326 at msn.com
Fri May 13 16:15:14 PDT 2011
Hi, I went on www.carroll-library.org Carroll co., IA. looking for an obit. You go to the front page, go to online resources, then you can go to the newspaper, or archives. Since this is free, not bad to try. Laura
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From: mflansburg at comcast.net
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Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 23:58:47 +0000
Subject: [or-roots] Opinions???
Hi everyone,
I am always looking for new Internet resources, as it is more and more expensive to travel. Has anyone used Archives.com? I am specifically wondering if they are a good source for obituaries. They say they charge an annual fee of $40.00. If their collection of resources is large enough, I can afford $40.00/year. I already am signed up for Ancestry.com. If they don't offer more or different source than I already have at Ancestry, then it's not worth it.
Opinions???
Thanks!!!
Marcus Flansburg
Logan, UT
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From: daleharguess4 at gmail.com
To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 17:00:54 -0700
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Opinions???
Funny you should ask. I was just talking about this the other night with a friend that has everything. She is dumping it because she said it is not worth it at all.
Just passing on what I heard from a very good researcher, I don't have any knowledge of it personally.
Dale
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:58 PM, <mflansburg at comcast.net> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am always looking for new Internet resources, as it is more and more expensive to travel. Has anyone used Archives.com? I am specifically wondering if they are a good source for obituaries. They say they charge an annual fee of $40.00. If their collection of resources is large enough, I can afford $40.00/year. I already am signed up for Ancestry.com. If they don't offer more or different source than I already have at Ancestry, then it's not worth it.
Opinions???
Thanks!!!
Marcus Flansburg
Logan, UT
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From: DeniseSproed at onlinenw.com
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Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 17:56:17 -0700
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Opinions???
I have not used Archives.com so I’m not familiar with their offerings. I do subscribe to GenealogyBank.com and find it is very helpful for Oregon research as it has the Old Oregonian’s available digitally. There are many others also available but it is the Oregonian that is the reason I subscribe.
Denise
A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists
The web page I made for my parents is at: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/
My genealogy related pages are at:
http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merritt/
and http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/
The latter created using John Cardinal's Second Site
User of The Master Genealogist (TMG) http://www.whollygenes.com/
From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of mflansburg at comcast.net
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 4:59 PM
To: Oregon Genealogy
Subject: [or-roots] Opinions???
Hi everyone,
I am always looking for new Internet resources, as it is more and more expensive to travel. Has anyone used Archives.com? I am specifically wondering if they are a good source for obituaries. They say they charge an annual fee of $40.00. If their collection of resources is large enough, I can afford $40.00/year. I already am signed up for Ancestry.com. If they don't offer more or different source than I already have at Ancestry, then it's not worth it.
Opinions???
Thanks!!!
Marcus Flansburg
Logan, UT
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From: glenkc7mbm at comcast.net
To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 01:28:11 +0000
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Opinions???
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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From: DeniseSproed at onlinenw.com
To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 19:00:52 -0700
Subject: [or-roots] Knight Library Digitizing Newspaper
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
A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists
The web page I made for my parents is at: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/
My genealogy related pages are at:
http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merritt/
and http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/
The latter created using John Cardinal's Second Site
User of The Master Genealogist (TMG) http://www.whollygenes.com/
From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Glen Jones
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 6:28 PM
To: or-roots mail list
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Opinions???
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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From: rgreenlund61 at yahoo.com
CC: andie_jensen at frontier.com; oregonc at gmail.com
To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 22:10:31 -0700
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Knight Library Digitizing Newspaper
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
rgreenlund61 at yahoo.com
Interested in Coos County History? See what's online at
genealogytrails.com, coquillevalley.org, or orgenweb.org
From: Denise Sproed <DeniseSproed at onlinenw.com>
To: 'or-roots mail list' <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 7:00 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Knight Library Digitizing Newspaper
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
A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists
The web page I made for my parents is at: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/
My genealogy related pages are at:
http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merritt/
and http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/
The latter created using John Cardinal's Second Site
User of The Master Genealogist (TMG) http://www.whollygenes.com/
From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Glen Jones
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 6:28 PM
To: or-roots mail list
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Opinions???
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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From: 58cjpeterson at comcast.net
To: rgreenlund61 at yahoo.com; or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 05:13:30 +0000
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Knight Library Digitizing Newspaper
Great info, Robyn. Thank you!
Carol Peterson
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Cc: "Andie Jensen" <andie_jensen at frontier.com>, "Marilee Miller" <oregonc at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 10:10:31 PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Knight Library Digitizing Newspaper
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
rgreenlund61 at yahoo.com
Interested in Coos County History? See what's online at
genealogytrails.com, coquillevalley.org, or orgenweb.org
From: Denise Sproed <DeniseSproed at onlinenw.com>
To: 'or-roots mail list' <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 7:00 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Knight Library Digitizing Newspaper
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
A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists
The web page I made for my parents is at: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/
My genealogy related pages are at:
http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merritt/
and http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/
The latter created using John Cardinal's Second Site
User of The Master Genealogist (TMG) http://www.whollygenes.com/
From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Glen Jones
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 6:28 PM
To: or-roots mail list
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Opinions???
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
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
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