Newspaper Archives Question

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>
> On Oct 15, 2011, at 4:16 PM, sclements at NEO.RR.COM wrote:
>>
>> When you say "ancestry.com" are you referring to the NewsBank Ancestry
>> GenealogyBank Historical Newspapers accessible through Mid-Continent Public
>> Library?  If so, the anser is "no, they are not the same."
>
> ancestry.com is a commercial website doing genealogical searches.  just look at the
> website (or see their tv commercials).

Ancestry.com includes a historical newspaper archive that appears to
be a subset of what's available on Newspaperarchive.com.
Genealogybank.com uses an entirely different database of historical
newspapers.

--Ben

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