Newspaper Archive Digitization Program Puts Historical Content Online
Summary
Just as Google, Microsoft and others are beginning to scan books; SmallTownPapers is digitizing the complete archives of newspapers from small towns across America, including the current printed weekly editions.“Our archives were previously only available to customers coming to the office, thumbing through our faded and fragile large bound volumes and placing them on a copier,” said Cara Young from Charles Town, West Virginia’s Spirit of Jefferson Farmer’s Advocate.“The SmallTownPapers collection is extremely valuable for family history researchers and has been one of the most accessed and favorite databases on our website,” said Walter Fuller, President of Everton’s Genealogical Helper.The SmallTownPapers archive, which includes current editions and those printed back to the 1800s, is available for online search through a distribution partnership with World Vital Records, Inc., which operates a genealogy-based research website.“Our archives were previously only available to customers coming to the office, thumbing through our faded and fragile large bound volumes and placing them on a copier,” said Cara Young from Charles Town, West Virginia’s Spirit of Jefferson Farmer’s Advocate.