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Searching Newspapers

 

How to find ancestors in newspapers
(even ones in a foreign language)


Start @   chronicling-america

  1.  Click on  Collection Items

  1. Enter text to search for. Maybe just the name and state only, the first time around



  1. Click search – in this example, I typed in the last name of Mickley and the state of Pennsylvania – a good starting place.

  2. After a long while you will get a series of images with the search word(s) highlighted




  1. Click on one of the images

  1. Select images with /text


NOTE: At this point I would download the PDF - it has a copy of the pictures and all the text in it – so you can come back later and get different text...

  1. Scroll down in the text box until you get to some of the highlighted text.






  1. Highlight and copy the text  - and paste into Google Translate https://translate.google.com/






If you had selected a paper in English this get a whole lot easier. But Roxy's ancestors were “Pennsylvania Dutch” (speak German) so when I saw this, it was a perfect test.

I thank Aimee Cross  – the lady who does this YouTube has others with a serious amount of information for the Amateur.


https://youtu.be/agDSvbP6lwg?si=lIn1eE_Pn9GOXWt6





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