also offers a free trial for 7 days right here. They offer 6 month memberships and monthly options – the price is about $8 a month for basic and $20 for plus – with some pretty steep discounts for some 6 month memberships ($45 and $75 respectively). In this case you can subscribe directly to only. If you are paying for the US Discovery or other subscription, or don’t hold a paid membership at all, paying for Ancestry All Access is likely going to be way too much money. You can try out the Ancestry All Access membership free for 14 days here if you don’t currently have an Ancestry membership. Choose “see all our membership options” to select the All Access plan. You can do this even if you have an All Access package, but you should be aware that access to all newspaper pages will be an extra fee. You will likely be tempted to upgrade to the higher plus package at some point in your research.
The basic subscription includes almost 120 million newspaper pages – but the Plus package includes more than 320 million. If you are already a subscriber to Ancestry and paid the full $149 for a World Explorer package (rather than getting it as part of a deal) upgrading to add these additional resources is not too much of a stretch.īut you should know that Ancestry’s All Access package only includes a Basic subscription. The package is $199 and if you want access to all records on Ancestry as well as newspaper and service records this can be a good deal. The Ancestry All Access membership includes access to all Ancestry records around the world as well as access to and Fold3 (mostly military service records).
is a standalone site in the sense that you can subscribe directly to it OR you can gain access as part of Ancestry’s subscriptions. I can search by name or keyword, browse by location and date, read to my heart’s desire, clip articles and add them to my family tree all in one place.Īnd does offer many newspapers that are hard or impossible to find elsewhere online, so that’s an added bonus. I’m going to walk you though the process of searching and browsing their site and then show you how you can create clippings of pages of interest, view them later and attach them to your Ancestry tree (if you have one) or download them to manually attach them to a tree elsewhere.īut before I do that, I want to talk about cost for a minute because you have some choices if you decide to use this site. is the newspaper archive owned by and the site provides an ease of use that is extremely appealing. Sometimes that means I am willing to pay for a resource that I may otherwise be able to get (mostly) for free. I have debunked more than one family story, only to dig up whole new ones I had never heard of.īut as much as I love free genealogy sites I must also admit that I love convenience in my research, and I very much enjoy well-designed sites with great tools that make my research easier. In the years of doing newspaper research on my own family I have discovered tales of murder, suicide, scam artists and train wrecks. You may discover things that will shock your socks off. News of the bizarre and unusual (sensational news is not a modern invention and if one of your ancestors was involved in an out of the ordinary incident you can bet you’ll find more than one bit about it in the newspapers, maybe even well beyond their local community)Īnd this is in addition to birth, marriage and death notices, obituaries and society pages where the daily goings on of people in the community were detailed.īut you’ll need to be careful.Notices of local events – such as plays, musical performances etc.Local news about school, church, and business happenings.Advertisements for businesses and services.Old newspaper archives also provide a potential goldmine of data through: That’s because not only was the local newspaper the place to record such happenings as births, marriages and deaths – people of the past loved the juicy details of their neighbors’ lives as much as we do now (social media anyone?) We’ve written about this topic as it pertains to the society pages in old newspapers before – but that information is just the tip of the iceberg.
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