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If you haven’t taken full advantage of old newspapers for discovering family history—maybe
you’re unsure how to find out which ones covered your ancestors’ hometown or fear
you don’t have time to scroll through rolls of microfilm—here’s a deal for you:

Take our Newspaper
Research 101 Family Tree University Course starting Jan. 9 for just $39.99 (the
four-week course is usually $99.99). The special rate is made possible by GenealogyBank.

Besides obituaries, newspapers are sources for birth announcements, social column
notes and other news stories mentioning your ancestors—even if they weren’t prominent
community members. 

I still get nostalgic over my first big genealogy find, a 1924 Dallas Morning News article
about my grandfather who grew up in an orphanage and was putting himself through college
(you
can see the article here). I discovered it by chance on GenealogyBank soon
after the site launched. 

Newspaper
microfilm from the Arkansas state archives helped me fill in details (otherwise
absent due to missing court records) about my grandfather’s arrest and trial for bootlegging.

In the Newspaper
Research 101 course, taught by James
M. Beidler, you’ll learn:

• what type of information to look for in newspapers
• how to find and access papers most likely to mention your kin
• how to effectively search digital and microfilmed papers

Learn
more and take advantage of this once-in-a-blue-moon Newspaper Research 101 tuition
on FamilyTreeUniversity.com.