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The Execution of Small Town Newspapers

Posted in Digital Collections, Digital Newspapers, FamHist, Small Town Newspapers, Utah Digital Newspapers, Utah Digitial Libraries, tagged , , , on 15 April 2009 | 1 Comment »

If your part of the world is like ours, less ink and paper is being published that has any resemblance of the community that existed in small town newspapers of days gone by.   Electronic media is probably the main culprit but coupled with corporate greed (need?) to ever increase the bottom line, their demise has [...]

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Small Town Newspapers

Posted in Digital Collections, Digital Newspapers, tagged , , on 7 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Small town newspapers are always a family history researcher’s best friend. I’ve been looking through some old copies of one of these publications for any information on my ancestors.
Recently, I found my 2nd great grandfathers obituary published on the front page of a small town paper 80 miles and several large cities north [...]

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Tools and Digital Newspapers

Posted in BYU Family History Resources, Digital Collections, Family Searcher, Transcript, Utah Digital Newspapers on 26 April 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Here are a few tools and sites that I’ve found to be extremely useful.
If you haven’t previously downloaded the free ‘Family Searcher‘ program, try it. I think you’ll like this tool written by Kevin Owen. The screen is split top and bottom… the top half will look at a GEDCOM file of [...]

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