Newspapers at Footnote.com
Mar 29th, 2009 by sharbrough
Newspapers, we used to say, have something for everybody. There are news stories about the events of the day, local news, births, marriages, and deaths. Even the ads are interesting. Genealogists can see ads for the places where their families worked. Historians can gather useful pricing, product, and advertising information.
The papers at Footnote fall into two categories: Small Town Papers, and Historical Papers.
Small Town Papers is the publisher of digital versions of many small town papers. They’re of great value to historians and genealogists because of their contemporary nature (they write them about current events – “news”), their local nature (they identify the people in the place) and the sheer scope of it all (there are so many of them, covering centuries). Footnote has about 300 different small town papers from this source.
Historical Newspapers from large cities provide context for the major events of the day. For instance, the San Francisco paper from the time of the Earthquake, the Chicago paper from the time of the Great Fire, and Washington, Atlanta, and London papers from war times.
