
These lessons are from my own historical newspaper research experience, which encompasses several years of both online as well as offline research. Online newspaper research is not just a matter of entering a surname or a word in a search box. By understanding and applying these lessons, you can achieve a much better chance of finding the extremely helpful and interesting articles that exist about history and our ancestors.
The lessons below will go a long way to improving your research skills:
- Historical Newspaper Research - Lesson 1 - Where To Find
- Historical Newspaper Research - Lesson 2 - Search Basics
- Historical Newspaper Research - Lesson 3 - Browsing
- Historical Newspaper Research - Lesson 4 - Search Index and OCR
- Historical Newspaper Research - Lesson 5 - Boolean Searches
- Historical Newspaper Research - Lesson 6 - How to Change Your Searches to Get Better Results
- Historical Newspaper Research - Lesson 7 - Don't Search Just Surnames
- Historical Newspaper Research - Lesson 8 - Use Hyphenated Search
- Historical Newspaper Research - Lesson 9 - Use Abbreviations
- Historical Newspaper Research - Lesson 10 - Newspapers at the Library
- Historical Newspaper Research - Lesson 11 - Use Special Keywords in Searches
- Historical Newspaper Research - Lesson 12 - Choosing a Site to Search
- Historical Newspaper Research - Lesson 13 - Search Tips and What to Avoid
By reading and applying these relatively short articles I GUARANTEE you will locate many more pertinent historical; newspaper articles!