Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

TodMaher wrote:

TanksAndSpartans wrote:Thanks for the info on Google News - I had no idea. Anyone else use any pay services that are good?

Newspapers.com (my favorite) - Arizona Republic (Phoenix), Chicago Tribune (though 1922), Cincinnati Enquirer, Detroit Free Press, Green Bay Press-Gazette, Indianapolis Star, Kansas City Star, Kansas City Times (through 1976), Los Angeles Times, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh Press, St.Louis Post-Dispatch, The Tennessean (Nashville).
Genealogy Bank - Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dallas Morning News (through 1984), Houston Chronicle (1963 only), Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (through 1968), New Orleans Times-Picayune (through 1988), San Diego Union, Seattle Daily Times (through 1984), Washington Evening Star, Washington Times.

I would also add to the list my adopted hometown newspaper, the Greenville (SC) News, which was just added to Newspaper.com in the last month or so. This paper is in the advantageous position of being the biggest city between Atlanta and Charlotte and also being about halfway between them (150 miles from Atlanta and 100 miles from Charlotte) and they have always covered the Falcons and Panthers very well. While Atlanta and Charlotte do not have local papers available on Newspaper.com, the Greenville News is a good source for both teams.

Thanks! Newspapers.com sounds good - I always worry these kinds of services are going to be a hassle to cancel though.

Newspapers.com also has the Oakland Tribune through 1975. Also, I'm hoping they add the New York Herald-Tribune in the near future - a great alternative to the Times. And someone told me they are working on one of the Minneapolis papers, too. But scratch the Kansas City Star from my list - they don't have that paper.

Of course, you can cheat somewhat with the Chicago Tribune by simply googling "Chicago Tribune" and the date after a particular game was played. In some cases, throwing in the name of the team might expedite the process--otherwise, get ready to scroll.

BD Sullivan wrote:Of course, you can cheat somewhat with the Chicago Tribune by simply googling "Chicago Tribune" and the date after a particular game was played. In some cases, throwing in the name of the team might expedite the process--otherwise, get ready to scroll.

My guess is that the Chicago Tribune are moving their archives over to newspapers.com - thus he "Publisher Extra" symbol on newspapers.com next to the Chicago Tribune link.

Great find - I'm surprised at the price tags on these things - when I've been to conferences in Salt Lake City, I learned genealogy was important for Mormons - but I really underestimated the money to be made here. I would have guessed the market for old newspaper articles was like the market for historic game films.

Chiming in late here, but I agree that newspapers.com is the best option. Yes, it costs a bit of money (80 dollars for a year) but I used to spend a lot of time just traveling to a research library, dragging out the New York Times Index for a clue as to what date I should be looking for in the various papers, paying for copies to take home and read later, etc. --- now I can do nearly all of that from my desk. Sometimes, you have to decide that your time is worth X amount of dollars per hour. But even at that, getting back to eighty dollars a year, that's less than seven dollars a month-- and I spent a hell of a lot more money just on gasoline when I went traveled to libraries.

Mark L. Ford wrote:Chiming in late here, but I agree that newspapers.com is the best option. Yes, it costs a bit of money (80 dollars for a year) but I used to spend a lot of time just traveling to a research library, dragging out the New York Times Index for a clue as to what date I should be looking for in the various papers, paying for copies to take home and read later, etc. --- now I can do nearly all of that from my desk. Sometimes, you have to decide that your time is worth X amount of dollars per hour. But even at that, getting back to eighty dollars a year, that's less than seven dollars a month-- and I spent a hell of a lot more money just on gasoline when I went traveled to libraries.

No doubt. And hotels, etc...I am sure glad interlibrary loans where cheap, cannot remember how much, but like a buck a film or something like that

Looks like newspapers.com is in the process of adding the Baltimore Sun. Which is odd because that's another ProQuest paper. Then I found this, which explains it.
ProQuest finally got a clue and is apparently using newspapers.com tomake it's papers (previously only available through a limited set of libraries) available to the general public and vice versa - it's making newspapers.com available to libraries.

http://www.proquest.com/products-servic ... ition.html