Newspaper archive freebee

[GoSeigen]

Newspapers.‌com has free access from now until midnight on Monday. That's four days to dig out some salacious articles about your ancestors.

Certainly my wife's family were in the crime pages on a very regular basis -- I am still regularly finding articles about incidents I hadn't seen before so the complete list will be truly impressive.


GS

[GoSeigen]

Oh no, sorry if I have misled anyone. I just tried to use the site and found it was not giving free access. When I re-read the email I'd received I see that access is only via the link in the email, which I presume you receive if you are already registered with the site.

When I used the link it worked fine, but I'm not sure if that will help anyone who isn't registered. However the link resolves to this url so maybe it will work:

https://go.newspapers.com/freeaccess?xid=6051&utm_source=Internal&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=FebFA_Feb-2024


GS

[XFool]

Does this include Dublin, late 19th, early 20th century?

[clissold345]

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When I used the link it worked fine, but I'm not sure if that will help anyone who isn't registered. However the link resolves to this url so maybe it will work:

https://go.newspapers.com/freeaccess?xid=6051&utm_source=Internal&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=FebFA_Feb-2024


GS

Yes the link seems to work. It says I have free access until 19th Feb @ 11:59PM, and I did one search.

[GoSeigen]

Well that was rewarding!

My wife has a rare name, such that any individual in the world with that name is probably a fourth cousin or closer. That makes searching for information a breeze. However they were a large family and fragmented by emigration, so there's a whole branch we know little about that I have been researching. Not only was this clan replete with career criminals, they also lived in a time and place (early c20 USA) where every little event got documented in some local rag or other.

So I just spent the weekend trawling through hundreds of newspaper articles about the family and putting together a decent history for a few of the people and most usefully, one couple died young and I managed to find an obituary naming two of their daughters who previously have been quite elusive (parents unmarried and MMN as common as Smith or Brown!).

Happy days...


GS