100 Million Newspaper Pages Online!

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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.

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Journey to the New World: The Ellis Island Database

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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.

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Letters Home: To Ireland and Wales from the US

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

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