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6 Basic Strategies for Searching on Newspapers.com™

August 10, 2022August 9, 2022 Karen Lee
Headlines in History

25th Anniversary of the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales

August 1, 2022August 1, 2022 Jenny Ashcraft
Content Updates & Company News

New Papers from New York, South Carolina, and Florida!

July 27, 2022July 27, 2022 Jenny Ashcraft
Family History Tips, Hints & Helps

Using Newspapers to Learn More from the 1950 U.S. Census

July 22, 2022July 19, 2022 Karen Lee
Family History Newspaper Finds Tips, Hints & Helps

Exploring the Society Pages in the Newspaper

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 Jenny Ashcraft
Headlines in History

The 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora and the Year Without a Summer

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 Jenny Ashcraft
Newspaper Finds

10 “Favorite” Dessert Recipes Shared by Newspaper Readers of the Past

May 20, 2022May 18, 2022

Newspapers have been a hub for sharing recipes for well over a century. Today, if we find a recipe we love, we might share it

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Family History Newspaper Finds Tips, Hints & Helps

Family Bible Finds in the Newspapers!

May 16, 2022May 16, 2022

Family bibles are a treasure for genealogists and often recorded important events like births, deaths, and marriages. Family bibles were especially popular in the 1700s

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6 Reasons You May Not Be Getting the Results You Want on Newspapers.com™

May 10, 2022August 2, 2022

The Newspapers.com™ search and its accompanying filters make it easier than ever to find what you’re looking for in newspapers. But there can be instances

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Content Updates & Company News

New Papers from Texas, California, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, and Florida!

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022

We’ve teamed up with our publishing partner Gannett to introduce 27 new papers from six states! Dating back to 1848, the newspapers in this collection

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Newspaper Finds

Evidence of the G.I. Bill in the 1950 Census

April 14, 2022April 19, 2022

The 1950 U.S. Census records have been released. Several states are already indexed and searchable on Ancestry®. Others will become available in the coming weeks

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Newspaper Finds

How to Host a 1950s Brunch

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022

Popularized in the 1930s, brunch had become a weekend “national habit” for many American families by the 1950s. With the post-war economic boom in full

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Headlines in History

April 14, 1935: Black Sunday Dust Storm

April 5, 2022April 5, 2022

On April 14, 1935, a massive black cloud of dust rolled across several states, including Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. The wall of

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Content Updates & Company News

Announcing Nearly 35 Million Pages of Canadian Newspapers!

March 23, 2022March 30, 2022

We are pleased to announce the addition of millions of new pages of Canadian content to our archives. We have papers from Alberta, British Columbia,

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Family History Tips, Hints & Helps

Using Newspapers to Uncover Women’s Birth Surnames

March 22, 2022March 17, 2022

Do you have a woman in your family tree whose married surname you know, but you don’t know the one she was born with? If

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Newspaper Finds

Countdown to the Release of the 1950 U.S. Census

March 18, 2022May 18, 2022

On April 1, 1950, some 150,000 census workers, armed with pencils and thick pads of census schedules, set out to visit every residence in the

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