cheap access to digitized newspapers

[George Thompson]

For those who may want access to the commercial archives of digitized newspapers which are not available through your university library:
The Godfrey Memorial Library (Middletown, Conn.) has long had a (apparently) very well endowed program in genealogical research.  Basic membership costs $35, and includes "America's Historical Newspapers" (Gale); "Early American Newspapers" (Readex); 19th Century Black newspapers (Accessible Archives); the Times (of London, from 1785 to recently, from Gale);  the Irish Times, from 1996.

It also offers a number of projects from local history associations and state libraries, which probably are free at their source, but it's convenient to have them accessible through one place.

It doesn't offer the Guardian, which Michael is calling our attention to, but that's a new file; perhaps the Godfrey will.

This does not offer any of the major collections of 18th/19th C magazines, no doubt because they aren't of much use in genealogy.  But you get $35 worth, just the same.  I enrolled only a few weeks ago, but think that I will easily get my money's worth, even though the only database I didn't have access to from another source was the Gale Amer Historical Newspapers.

Naturally, it also offers a whole bunch of genealogical files with cemetery records, immigration records, jail-house rosters, &c.

The address is
   www.godfrey.org.

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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