To Persons Who Are Currently Viewing This Page. You should know that

A) By mistake, the WebLink (URL) that brought you here, is both wrong & misleading.

B) The correct page (which will be kept up-to-date) is here =>

Authors Biographers: Access Valuable Historical>Present: Fm Newspapers.com

Sorry for any confusion that this error may have caused.

Signed Henry S Gurr, ZMMQ SiteMaster

Nov 30, 2018.

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

Below Are Henry Gurr’s Hints & Helps Instructions, 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:

1) Suggested Examples of Newspapers.com search terms he used,

2) The general nature of the information you will discover, and

3) What and how much (statistics), of each type of article found, useful or not.

4) Other Newspaper & Literature Research Sources That Henry Gurr Is Aware Of.

To Writers and Document Researchers, Friends and Family

Newspapers.com is an excellent resource to

a) Search for and

b) Get copy of what you are looking for!!

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

This is really good and quite effective, for Biography & Other Book Authors, Genealogical Researchers, Political Activists, and even making a Person’s Family Time Line!

This site is easy to use, does not fight back, and gives fairly good 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.}

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

You should know the following:
Newspapers.com has a 7 day free trial, that seems to make available everything they have. In other words =>I’m 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, 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 this.

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 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:

a) ONLY, if you get confused, come back and read these instructions below!

b) OF-COURSE, after you can easily find your way around Newspapers.com, come back to these “instructions”, and read fully, to see if you have missed anything!

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:

A) My Actual Thought At the Time: “This Internet Resource, https://www.newspapers.com/ is pretty dang good overall !!!”

B) For example => A complex search (9 Key Words), it near instantly found both Newspapers I already had found, using Google search => ... Vinke Memorial Little International Livestock Show Grand Champion 1935 ....

C) BUT I realize in doing above, that a search phrase with ALL Nine Key Words will be narrowed down to JUST & ONLY include articles with ALL my Key Words. and UN like google, will absolutely NOT bring in any “extras”, or “closely related topics”. :-(( .

D) Because of C), I tried to use SAME search phrase on Google's Site, to get a wide (all inclusive) search: But somehow, Google for this, was not really a better way …. Google with this search phrase, found merely a few of what Newspapers.com found, when I did a less-specific search phrase of just 2 or 3 words, as explained next =>

So …I conclude ... the best is a FOUR STEP search for the Topic Desired:

1) FIRST explore the general kind of search results (hits) you will get, by your search phrase Key Words on Google. (You likely will notice that the hits may even include a few hits from https://www.newspapers.com/ )

2) SECOND, you may want Google to shift the emphasis, to results that are SPECIFICALLY on Newspapers.com: To do this,

a) You use Google’s specialized (so named) “advanced search”:

b) This is done by=> You type into the Google Search Box, the whole complete, line next down, with the colon and periods correct place!!:

Site:https://www.newspapers.com/ + Your ''Search-Phrase'' OR Key Words.

3) THIRD: And since 2) above most likely will yield just a small portion of what Newspapers.com has to offer, then you should use a less-specific search phrase of 2 or 3 Key Words: To do this, use their search box on the center of the page that comes up here =>https://www.newspapers.com/

4) FOURTH: BE SURE TO NOTICE THAT IN 3), you may additionally, NARROW your search by click on TWO options (center of the page) =>

a) Click on the “Add more Info” and

b) Click on the “See [News]Papers By Location”.

F) BIG HINT in Newspapers.com:
To be sure not to miss what your looking for, it is a good idea to use less-specific search phrase of just 2 or 3 words. Of course, with a 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 your 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 =>

Each “Hit”, will show a compact view of each Newspaper Article found, with the date and name of the newspaper, and in a small window, you will see each of your search phrase of 2 or 3 Key Words ,highlighted: This of course, speeds up you sifting for the gold! .

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. )

I) After studying each Hit, you can click to make “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 computer, where subsequently, the public can log-on the Newspapers.com, supply the proper link (see “A Nice Feature” 12 inches below), and then click on the clipping, and can do a “file open” 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 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 19 “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 cptr screen) to eventually respond to any of my

1) mouse wheel-scroll up or down, or

2) click drag view bar, at right of the screen, or

3) click the icon ►, to cycle thru article finds in the small box.

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) Another Nice Feature: In your Newspapers.com, User Account View, (click browser upper right), you can access a very nice “Your Profile” display => To do this go to https://www.newspapers.com/ and when this page comes up in your browser, click (upper right) to, bring this up: It offers several choices to view your profile, and right away, it shows full text of all your existing, "Clips", where a click will load any of your individual clipping into your browser: From this I could C&P the following, into say my Sarah Vinke Biography =>

a) Clipping Title,

b) Clipping Description and

c) the automatically provided Newspaper Name, date, and page #.

BUT the words of your "Clipped" article, are shown merely an image.pdf, not editable text. Thus if you want to type the words of your article into some other document, you will have to manually typed what is needed, from the image. Eventually an easier way is needed.

M) Another Nice 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, far easier to just (even at your first contact), send your email to them directly at . <support@newspapers.com> ..

A VERY BIG NICE FEATURE!

My Nineteen Newspaper.com, “Clippings” are public access!! Here Is How To See Them.
A) In a WebBrowser, either of the 2 links below, will show any person, my 19 “Clippings, … (No Password needed, for this part.)
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 19 “Clippings”, with a Clipping Title and a Clipping Description Caption.
B) 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.
C) As an added source of SVB Supplementary Information, I will tell readers of SVB, to also use these links. For now, you dear reader, will be a trial user, and tell me (by email), how well this works, for you.

https://www.newspapers.com/profile/HenryG/#

https://www.newspapers.com/profile/HenryG/

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 =>

A) https://sheaffergenealogy.com/2016/10/23/how-to-use-newspapers-com-tutorials/

B) Newspapers.com own Help Page is here => https://www.newspapers.com/help/

END Newspapers.com Hints & Helps by HSG

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