100 Million Newspaper Pages Online!

Article Abstract:

Many newspapers have some of their archival holdings available online. There is usually a fee involved. Some of the services that make newspapers available are: Godfrey Memorial Library, Paper of Record, Toronto Star, Obits Archive, Paratext, The Times (London), Otherdays, Library of Congress, Ancestry.com, Proquest, Accessible Archives, NewsLibrary.com, Newsbank and NewspaperArchive.com.

Telegraph & other communications, Newspapers, Newspaper Publishers, Internet services, Directory, Archives, Cable television/data services

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Journey to the New World: The Ellis Island Database

Article Abstract:

Ellis Island Immigration Station was the point of embarkation of ships passengers to New York from 1892. A database providing information about the immigrants is available online and the search capabilities have been improved since its launch in 2001. T he author describes searches she made for Eastern European ancestors whose names were spelled in various ways.

Immigrants, Online information services, Emigration and immigration, Records and correspondence, Information services, Databases, Online information service, Database, Ellis Island Immigration Station, CD-ROM catalog, CD-ROM database

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Letters Home: To Ireland and Wales from the US

Article Abstract:

This is an annotated collection of letters written to relatives between 1847 and 1880 by people in the United States describing their lives.

Ireland, Wales, History, Collections and collecting, Social history, Social sciences and history, Letters, Letters (Correspondence)

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