In case this is useful to anyone, there's lots of digitised newspapers freely available in the Library of Congress: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
MyHeritage debuts OldNews.com, offering access to myriad historical newspapers
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#12In case this is useful to anyone, there's lots of digitised newspapers freely available in the Library of Congress: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Interesting that the newest available is from 1963.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're probably just banking on the fact that MyHeritage has a lot more customers than either one of those, who probably haven't heard of either one, and are already proven to shell out money to research their family history. Whatever you show them first, they'll use. Of course the smart customers like you are going to stick with the better alternative but I think you're in a small minority of elites.
Newspapers.com is an Ancestry.com property. I'm not sure who's the larger company in terms of user base, do you know their respective sizes?
Oh, I didn't know that. Two rivals doing the exact same thing. The move makes even more sense now.
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#14In the Netherlands we have a great online and free resource called Delpher that allows citizens to freely browse over 2 million newspapers from previous decades. Its bizarre to see how important archival content like that is being monetized instead of commoditised by MyHeritage… For example, Delpher allowed me to investigate the life of some of my family members from whom I knew close to nothing.
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#15It's such a shame that recent historical newspapers are closed source in this way. We could learn so much from quantitative analysis of culture if there were downloadable data or at least an API.
Well you can, go to your local library and look at microfiche. It's how we used to do it. Primary research. If you're lucky they may have OCR or a tagging system. If not, reels of microfiche
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#16there's a wealth of data locked up in these old newspapers and it's kind of a shame it's only being valued by these genealogy corporations. They're not really the best stewards of the data.
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#17In case this is useful to anyone, there's lots of digitised newspapers freely available in the Library of Congress: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Interesting that the newest available is from 1963.
Chronicling America is great, but as you’ve noticed it’s limited to issues that are in the public domain. It’s not just LC, the National Digital Newspaper Program[1] has been funding hundreds of libraries across all 50 USA states to make it possible since the mid-00s.
Australia’s national library offers Trove[2], which has a huge collection of Australian public domain newspapers.
Most of their repository is likely funded by your tax dollars and is there for the public to use.
[1]: https://www.neh.gov/divisions/preservation/national-digital-... [2]:https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/
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#18there's a wealth of data locked up in these old newspapers and it's kind of a shame it's only being valued by these genealogy corporations. They're not really the best stewards of the data.
Archiving is really expensive and time consuming. Making it actually useful is more so.
Archiving some things like photos is also complicated from a rights perspective given it wasn't even on the radar when a lot of the content was originally used.
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#19I’m the target audience for this, as I use Newspapers.com for a lot of my research. There are a lot of services like this. $99 is cheaper than the current $75/6 months I pay for them.
I think Newspapers.com needs the competition, but I wish it was from a source other than a directly competing genealogy company.
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