Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - What Genealogy Resource Are You Thankful For?

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing's mission this week is:

1)  What Genealogy Resource are you thankful for?  Is it an organization, software, websites, repositories, persons, or something else?

2)  Tell us in your own blog post, in a comment on this blog post, or on Facebook.  Please drop a link in a comment to this post so that every reader can read about your resource.

Here's mine:

I would echo Randy’s post of being thankful for FamilySearch. The best thing they did was put up the digital images of records even though they had not yet been digitized.

The next best site I’m thankful for are all of the newspaper sites that have digital images of newspapers. Many that I use are:

Free Sites:

Chronicling America at the Library of Congress website. There are lots of newspapers from every state that were published before 1923. There is no copyright so can be freely used in our work.

The Portal to Texas History has many newspapers useful for my research, especially in Erath County (thank you Stephenville Library for your assistance!).

Pay Sites:

Newspaper.com courtesy of Ancestry. I have found more useful newspapers here than at any of the other paid sites.

GenealogyBank is another favorite. I used to love their old interface but am still fighting the new one. I’m not a big fan of change.

Newspapers are just the best resource for filling in information about our ancestors. Not just for vital records, but for all kinds of other events that happen to them: accidents, new jobs, club meetings, visits from family, etc.

Newspapers also give you a feel and history of the time period where your ancestors lived. Search for topics besides their names. I love checking the weather or learning about election results.

Thank you to all the sources who have provided digital content!

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