originally presented on march 20, 2019. re-recorded on may
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Originally presented on
March 20, 2019.
Re-recorded on May 31, 2019
Tina KirkhamJ. Willard Marriott LibraryUniversity of Utah
What is Utah Digital Newspapers and what’s in it?
How can newspapers help with family history research?
Tips for effective searching.
Sneak Preview: What Utah newspapers will be digitized next?
Fewer than 15% have been digitized.
~600 newspapers have been
published in Utah since 1850.
~600 newspapers have been
published in Utah since 1850. 165 different newspapers, 1850-2018
~600 newspapers have been
published in Utah since 1850.
Pause for quick tour of UDN
– William Allen White, 1916
Home Town News: William Allen White and the Emporia Gazette, by Sally Foreman Griffith (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 159.
• There is no "right" or "perfect" way to search. Experiment!
• Search for every term that might bring results: railroad, railway
• Use contemporaneous terms (mulatto) and spellings: base ball, basket-ball
• Understand typesetting shortcuts: McNulty M’Nulty
• Exploit proximity searching: “Haskins”=2861 results “Haskins chaplain"~10=3 results
• Don't prematurely limit your search geographically
• Use terms from a more formal era: Bobby Jones = R.W. Jones; Sally Jones = Mrs. R.W. Jones
• Include titles (Judge Johnson) and suffixes (A. B. Smith, Jr.) if known, to refine results.
• Schedule a time to re-run your search. (More newspapers are being added all the time.)
Provo Herald 1909-2009 (85% complete)
Jordan Valley Sentinel 1971-1988
Midvale Sentinel 1966-1972
Ogden Standard Examiner Apr-Dec 1921
Salt Lake Evening Telegram Sep-Dec 1903
The Ogden Junction 1870-1881
Woman's Exponent 1872-1914
Emery County Progress Oct 1940-Dec 1980
Times-Independent (Moab) 1979-2005
“The Embargo Deal” with
In 2019, 36 new runs will be added to
Bingham Bulletin 1915-1962
Bingham News 1922-1926
The Box Elder news 1927-1937
Cache American 1937-1947
Corinne daily journal 1871-1871
Corinne daily mail 1874-1875
The Dixie advocate 1901-1906
The Dixie falcon 1900-1901
The Ensign 1888-1890
The Ephraim enterprise 1921-1957
The Gunnison gazette 1899-1909
The Home sentinel 1885-1990
The Mammoth record 1897-1925
Milford News 1928-1956
Morgan County news 1955-1963
Morgan County news 1967-2004
Nephi record 1896-1909
Parowan times 1946-1960
The Piute pioneer 1896-1929
Pleasant Grove review 1970-1989
Progressive Opinion 1941-1944
Rich County news 1917-1921
Rich County reaper 1916-1929
The Richfield reaper 1941-2004
The San Juan record 1953-2004
Southeast Independent 1956-1960
Southern Utah Times 1884
South High Scribe 1941-1944
The Spanish Fork press 1892-1904
The Spanish Fork press 1911-1930
(Moab) Times-independent 1964-1978
(Nephi) Times-news 1903-1916
(Nephi) Times-news 1958-2004
The Tooele transcript 1925-2004
The Uintah Basin record 1943-1956
The Wasatch wave 1923-1967
Washington County news 1946-1988
Weber State Signpost 1937-2014
…and also available to you during the embargo period through a special
subscription to newspapers.com, which you can access, for free, at these
locations:
• Brigham Young University • Dixie State• Salt Lake Community College• Snow College• Southern Utah University• University of Utah Marriott Library• Utah Division of State History (Rio Grande building)• Utah State Library (250 North @ 1950 West)• Utah State University• Utah Valley University• Weber State University• Westminster College
In 2019, 36 new runs will be added to…
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• Early Utah Journalism, by J. Cecil Alter, Utah State Historical Society, 1938, accessed March 12, 2019 at
catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010119066.
• “How Does Optical Character Recognition Work?,” New England Document Systems, April 24, 2014, accessed
March 20, 2019 at https://nedocs.com/how-does-optical-character-recognition-work/
• "I Read It In The Newspaper," by James Tanner, BYU Library Family History Webinar Series, September 6, 2017.
• National repository: Chronicling America, chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
• State repositories
• ARIZONA: azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/newspapers
• CALIFORNIA: cdnc.ucr.edu/
• COLORADO: coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/
• IDAHO: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/?state=Idaho
• MONTANA: montananewspapers.org
• NEVADA: nvdnp.wordpress.com/
• TEXAS: texashistory.unt.edu/search/?q=&sort=added_d&t=fulltext
• WYOMING: newspapers.wyo.gov/
https://digitalnewspapers.org/about/contact/
Beyond Obits: Using Utah Digital Newspapers for Family History
by Tina Kirkham, J. Willard Marriott Library
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In 2019, 36 runs will be added to Newspaperss.com, and available to you free at Utah universities and
colleges, state library, and state archives.
Bingham Bulletin 1915-1962
Bingham News 1922-1926
The Box Elder news 1927-1937
Cache American 1937-1947
Corinne daily journal 1871-1871
Corinne daily mail 1874-1875
The Dixie advocate 1901-1906
The Dixie falcon 1900-1901
The Ensign 1888-1890
The Ephraim enterprise 1921-1957
The Gunnison gazette 1899-1909
The Home sentinel 1885-1990
The Mammoth record 1897-1925
Milford News 1928-1956
Morgan County news 1955-1963
Morgan County news 1967-2004
Nephi record 1896-1909
Parowan times 1946-1960
The Piute pioneer 1896-1929
Pleasant Grove review 1970-1989
Progressive Opinion 1941-1944
Rich County news 1917-1921
Rich County reaper 1916-1929
The Richfield reaper 1941-2004
The San Juan record 1953-2004
Southeast Independent 1956-1960
Southern Utah Times 1884
South High Scribe 1941-1944
The Spanish Fork press 1892-1904
The Spanish Fork press 1911-1930
(Moab) Times-independent 1964-1978
(Nephi) Times-news 1903-1916
(Nephi) Times-news 1958-2004
The Tooele transcript 1925-2004
The Uintah Basin record 1943-1956
The Wasatch wave 1923-1967
Washington County news 1946-1988
Weber State Signpost 1937-2014
90%60%
Article-Segmented. Human-tagged. Search result = article, ad or item.
Not Segmented. No human involvement. Search result = whole page.
2019 Future
Most will not be segmented
Beyond Obits: Using Utah Digital Newspapers for Family History
by Tina Kirkham, J. Willard Marriott Library