#News clippings archive#
#News clippings full#

Once the text index is built for each page using sophisticated OCR technology, we feed all that information into our search system. Each page is scanned and 'read' separately so you can search specific information through old newspaper articles to find out about a particular event or person.

OCR is a technology that keeps developing, and professionals are continuously working on refining it to build archives of old newspapers that show a page’s accurate content. The technology 'reads' the pages and creates a text version of whatever a certain page contains. We've chosen Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology for building our comprehensive newspaper archives. Whoever they were chances are there’s an article or photo (or more!) that’s relevant to your genealogy search. Maybe they were longtime residents or performed relevant local functions. Maybe they owned a business or had special standing in the community. So no matter where your ancestors lived, chances are good there are more than just a few stories of your descendants.įind old newspaper articles and stories about your family members and their accomplishments from graduations to weddings and more. You can explore newspaper archives from large metropolitan cities as well as small towns from across all 50 states.

#News clippings archive#

With every search, our newspaper archive search engine combs the entire newspaper for keyword matches including images found within articles.

#News clippings full#

GenealogyBank helps you review and search digitized newspaper clippings and full publications to learn more about your family history. Our online records include over 291 million newspaper obituaries and death records covering over 327 years from over 13,000 newspapers, some of which go all the way back to 1690!

95% of our newspapers are exclusive to GenealogyBank, which means you will discover new facts and stories about your ancestors not found elsewhere. GenealogyBank is the largest and fastest growing newspaper archive for genealogy and family history research. Very often, historical newspapers published news stories and obituaries in the hometowns and locations where your family members lived and worked. Newspaper searches often provide a major key in tracking down relatives and ancestors.

Newspaper Archives - Keys to tracing your family history