NEWSPAPERS, OLD & NEW, Are An Excellent Source of Information, For ALL Kinds of Purposes!! Most Especially, Genealogy Researchers, & Authors Of => Books, Such As Biographies, Historical Texts, Novels, Etc.

Below Are Henry Gurr’s Hints & Helpful Instructions For, How To Most Efficiently Use And Get The Most Out Of Newspapers.Com, which is the largest & easiest to use of all Newspaper Compilation WebSites!

Also Given Will Be:

To Writers and Document Researchers, Friends and Family:

Newspapers.com is an excellent resource to

Newspapers.com offers Articles for USA, and even some Worldwide. They have indexed Newspapers, from ~150 years ago, up to fairly recent times.

This is really good and quite effective source of Newspaper Articles of ALL Topics, for Biographers & Other Book Authors, Genealogical Researchers, Political Activists, and even making a Person’s Family Biography!

This site is easy to use, does not fight back, and gives fairly good photographic image copy, when you ask for a “Clipping”. (Of course, the original microfilm copy may be dark or smudgy, but this is usually not Newspapers.com’s fault.) As you will discover, Newspapers.com does NOT offer digital text for any content.

Specific Instructions, How To Use Newspapers.com, about 8 Inches Below.

First, You Should Know The Following =>

… Newspapers.com has a 7 day free trial, that seems to make available everything they have. …. In other words during my Free Trial Usage => I was not aware of anything being held back, because I was on their 7-day free trial.

BUT, to get the 7 day free trial, you have to do a FULL Sign-Up, and give your Credit Card Number: AND if you do not take careful specific action, you WILL AUTOMATICALLY., be billed for $74.90 for 6 months of service, This will happen, after your 7 days are over (at ~midnight?): ATTENTION: Make no mistake, this is what WILL happen!!

AND: To get their advertised $19.95 for 1 month, (At the end of the 7 day free trial) You have to work quite hard to get this to be effective. (You may contact me about how I did this.)

HERE: I MUST ADD => If you DO take careful specific action, you will be able to successfully, set up the billing, so at the end the 7-day offer, there will be zero $ credit card charges. With attention to detail, I have been able to do this.
Click Here For Newspapers.com 7 Day Free Trial.

A Useful Feature: You May Contact Newspapers.Com Using Their Webform At =>
… https://www.newspapers.com/contact/ . But this will go to them as an email, and they will answer by email, “within 1 - 2 business days”. I used their WebForm, and got a reply in 6 hours, and my billing complaint fully resolved! But, it’s far easier to just (even at your first contact), send your email to them directly at support@newspapers.com

PREAMBLE:
Below I write-out instructions as how to use this Newspapers.com: However, as is the case for most instructions , they are long and difficult to understand: THUS you should at first => Quickly glance over these instructions , then on-your-own, just go to https://www.newspapers.com/, AND with your own native abilities, just-start-using-it-cold:

What I (Henry S Gurr), Found Out About Using Newspapers.com:

Overall Newspapers.com Was A GREAT Resource For Important & Needed Information, Used In Writing My Sarah Vinke Biography.

Plus A Few User HINTS & HELPS, Along The Way:

So …I conclude ... the BEST is a FOUR STEP search for the Topic Desired =>

Louis Vinke Sarah Vinke site:https://www.newspapers.com/

F) BIG HINT For Your Work in Newspapers.com:
… To be sure NOT to miss what you’re looking for, it is a good idea to use less-specific search phrase of just 2 or 3 words. Of course, with a less specific search phrase of 2 or 3 Key Words, you will get a HUGE pile of search results. (hits)! But having to just wade through this pile of hits, is practically the ONLY way, to get what you’re looking for!

G) In Newspapers.com => After you have typed in your search phrase of 2 or 3 Key Words, then click to “Search”: This is when a long list of Hits will come up =>

H) OOPS: What IF your web browser gets accidently closed, (in the middle of your “sifting for the gold”, as happened to me mid-way in my study of my 1090 item search results) … That’s no problem, simply reload it (from your browsers “History” or “Recently closed tabs”), It will go back (fairly close), to where you were before!! (This happened to me three times, using Chrome Browser, and this is a very nice feature!) (Please let me know if this is different in other Browsers, such as Safari, Opera, Firefox, Internet-Explorer, Edge, Etc.) (Editor’s note – the keyboard combination “Ctrl + Shift + T” reopens your last closed tab in both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers)

I) After studying each result, you can click to make a “Clipping”. AND In the viewer that comes up, you will see just what the original newspaper looked like: Click “find on page”, and you can type-in your Clipping Description & why you were looking for it. (An option to type-in your Clipping Title also will come up.) Automatically, the date and name of the Newspaper Article will be also automatically included in your clipping. After you click on “Clip”, you will be provided with choices a) Email, b) Text, c) Save to computer, d) etc. These work well. Most of my “Clipping” were saved to my computer. But having “Saved to Computer”, my “Clipping” was also automatically “Saved” into Newspapers.com’s own database, where subsequently, the public can log-on the Newspapers.com, supply the proper link (see “A Nice Feature” At “L)” below), and then click on the clipping, and you can open the file into a pdf viewer, to view the “Clipping”.

J) In doing I) above, I found it is easy typing-in my Title & Description (into the viewer that comes up), But if you make a mistake, it turns out that you can NOT mouse drag to highlight (to select for editing), or other editing actions you normally use. For this reason, it will be best for you to type both Title & Description, in a Word Processor, be sure these are correct, and subsequently C&P into the Newspaperrs.com "Clippings" Edit Box. … (Please scroll-down, about 10 inches, to => “A Very BIG Nice Feature” to view examples of my own “Clips”. AND of course, learn by example, how to tell others to view your own “Clips”!)

K) As I did F) above (in my Chrome Browser), I studied each Newspapers.com Hit, and successfully was able to make 10 “Clippings”. BUT as I eventually got near the END of, my HUGE 1090 item search results, I found that it took VERY long time (for my computer screen) to eventually respond to any of my

So, you should BE READY FOR THIS, WHEN IT HAPPENS on HUGE list of Hits, and just NOT get in a hurry. (Otherwise, you may MISS the BIG, what you are looking for!)

L) Some Very Nice Features:
… When you go to https://www.newspapers.com/ and Sign-In, and then upper right click on “Clippings”, you can see a very nice display of All Your Clippings” you have made so far.
… You can click on any one of these to get the following =>

NOTE1: These are in digital text, so they are easy to ClickDragHilite and then C&P, into your article into some other document.
NOTE2: BUT the words of your "Clipped" Article, are shown merely as an image.pdf, NOT editable text.
NOTE3: Thus if you want to type the words of your article into some other document, you will have to => Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on => “Show Article Text (OCR)” and WOKDERFUL, ALL THE ARTICLE CAN BE ClickDragHilite and then C&P, into your article into some other document. This is a whole lot better than manual typing it, but there will be a large # of OCR Errors that will require manual fixing.

A VERY BIG NICE FEATURE!

My Ten Newspaper.com, “Clippings” Are Free (No Log-In), Public Access!! Here Is How To See Them With These Steps =>
A) When Ready, Right Click on the Blue Link below, open in a new tab, and the page that comes up, will show any person, my 10 “Clippings, … (No Password needed, for this part.)
B) After you click on the link, in the page that comes up you will see in a long series, a compact view of each of my 10 “Clippings”, with a Clipping Title and a Clipping Description Caption.
C) Click on any, for a clear view.pdf image, of just what the original newspaper looked like, with the date and name of the newspaper. At this point, you will be able to do all the “abilities” of above => L) Some Very Nice Features:

D) For now, you dear reader, you click on the Blue Link below, for a free (no pass word), trial user, and tell me (by email), how well viewing my clippints works, for you.

In Addition To Henry Gurr’s “How To Use Newspapers.Com,” Seen Above, Here Are Other Tutorial Guides You May Wish To Study, In Order Listed =>

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