JGSGB-Announce Mailing List: Free Access to ProQuest Historical Newspapers in June

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Title: Introducing Children to Jewish Genealogy

Gary Mokotoff posted the item below in Avotaynu's Nu ?What's New? Searching newspapers using ProQuest can turn up many items of significant genealogical value. Because the ProQuest service is quite expensive, libraries often do not subscribe to all of its services (if any), so this is an opportunity worth taking advantage of.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers Allows Access to Jewish Newspapers for June ProQuest Historical Newspapers, in celebration of Anne Frank's diaries 70th anniversary, is offering free access to their American Jewish Historical Newspapers Collection through June 30th. The newspapers include:    • American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857–1922) New York    • American Israelite (1854–2000) Cincinnati    • Jewish Advocate (1905–1990) Boston    • Jewish Exponent (1887–1990) Philadelphia Normally ProQuest services are available only to institutions, primarily libraries, and not individuals. Contact your local library to determine if they are a ProQuest subscriber. If so, have them order the collection if they do not have it already. I [Gary Mokotoff] was able to access the database from my home computer. Go to http://discovermorecorps.com/ and click the “Sign Up” button. Create an account (I noted I was a “researcher”). Then go to http://discovermorecorps.com/page/database-of-the-month and click on the words “free access” in the first sentence of the article. You can then perform searches and save the results.

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