cheap access to digitized newspapers

[Joel S. Berson]

I don't remember whether I mentioned this here or on another list,
but the New England Historic Genealogical Society (Boston) permits
access from home computers to "America's Historical Newspapers"
(Gale) and "Early American Newspapers" (Readex) -- aren't they the
same thing these days? At least, when one gets to the database, it's
called "Readex / America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876 including
Early American Newspapers Series 1" -- for a not quite as inexpensive
membership charge ($75 per year).  The NEHGS also provides access to
19th Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale).

(Does the Godfrey Memorial Library (Middletown, Conn.) permit access
from members' home computers, as does the NEHGS?  My university
library permits home access to its databases only to staff and students.)

Joel

At 11/8/2007 11:35 AM, George Thompson wrote:
>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.
>
>GAT
>
>
>George A. Thompson
>Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre",
>Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
>
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