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Looking for Website with past American Newspaper articles

  • 28-11-2010 3:45am
    #1
    IrishEyes19
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    Hi, not sure if Im posting in the right forum, but mods move me if I'm not.

    Im basically looking for a website online where I could source old American newspapers from the Vietnam era for a research project I'm doing for College. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks!! :D


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  • #2
    JeanClaude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 518 ✭✭✭JeanClaude


    IrishEyes19 wrote: »
    Hi, not sure if Im posting in the right forum, but mods move me if I'm not.

    Im basically looking for a website online where I could source old American newspapers from the Vietnam era for a research project I'm doing for College. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks!! :D

    You could try.
    http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/
    I don't know how much help it'll be but worth looking at.


  • #3
    uvox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 975 ✭✭✭uvox


    Try pinging @topgold on Twitter. I'd say he's a good source and may have more info.


  • #4
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    That Google News Timeline doesn't work too well - I tried looking for the name of a great-uncle who went to America in 1909 and died there in the next couple of years, but it just brought up articles about President Taft, etc.

    Then I tried entering the name of his sister (the great-uncle's, not Taft's), because I knew there had been a big article about her in a New York paper in 1916, but it didn't bring up any different results.


  • #5
    x3wiggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭x3wiggles


    Have you tried
    http://www.newspaperarchive.com/ ?
    You can search by city and state. :)


  • #6
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    x3wiggles wrote: »
    Have you tried
    http://www.newspaperarchive.com/ ?
    You can search by city and state. :)

    Hm. Worked well for one search, for a famous event, but I'm unable to find a mysterious relative, who went off to America and died, maybe in the US or Canada, in an accident - Edward Cecil Gifford. Only time I've been able to find hide or hair of him is on a boat to New York in 1909.

    It lists Ireland, but doesn't come up with any results from Irish papers - perhaps that's aspirational!


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  • #7
    x3wiggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭x3wiggles


    Qualitymark wrote: »
    Hm. Worked well for one search, for a famous event, but I'm unable to find a mysterious relative, who went off to America and died, maybe in the US or Canada, in an accident - Edward Cecil Gifford. Only time I've been able to find hide or hair of him is on a boat to New York in 1909.

    It lists Ireland, but doesn't come up with any results from Irish papers - perhaps that's aspirational!

    There are records. I'll go searching for it now. I have found them before. My family emigrated from Scotland to Massachusetts in the 1890s and about a year ago, through endless searching, I found their records. I'll get back to you as soon as I find it.


  • #8
    Qualitymark
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    x3wiggles wrote: »
    There are records. I'll go searching for it now. I have found them before. My family emigrated from Scotland to Massachusetts in the 1890s and about a year ago, through endless searching, I found their records. I'll get back to you as soon as I find it.

    If you can find it, it's a big box of Lily O'Briens for you! But don't go crazy - I've been looking for our Cecil (twin of Grace) for a while without any luck.

    Another brother, Lebirt, or as the family usually spelled him, Liebert, I briefly found some years back as a 16-year-old on a ship to America (presumably having run away from home looking for adventure), but I never found him again - whatever the record was, it sank back into the belly of the Internet.


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