Newspapers can provide incredible amounts of information that will help you in your research. They can also help give you a more complete picture of your family members by telling you more about their lives. Beyond the types of things you'd expect -- births, marriages, deaths -- I have also found information about jobs, military service, moves, hobbies, civic involvement, travel, naturalization, arrests, and more.
I had a good time today at the San Joaquin Genealogical Society. The turnout was great for my talk! About 50 people came to learn how to find and use online newspaper archives. Appropriately, several of the attendees found out about the presentation from the announcement in the local newspaper, the Stockton Record. People said they learned a lot and they're looking forward to finding information in newspapers about their ancestors.
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