[or-roots] Ancestry.com immigration and newspaper

[W David Samuelsen]

You will have better results by going to the source -

www.newspaperarchive.com (and a bargain for much more newspapers)
Ancestry is selective about the newspapers, missing some issues. Their
source?  newspaperarchive.com

David Samuelsen

CKlooster at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/13/04 7:03:44 AM Alaskan Standard Time, 
> whizinc at comcast.net writes:
> 
>     I have Ancestry's immigration and newspaper portion.  I'd be happy
>     to do look ups.  Please email me off list. 
>     Ronda
> 
> Have you ever found a NAME in the Ancestry newspaper search?  I was very 
> excited when upgraded my subscription to add the Newspaper and 
> Periodical search and my  first search result showed two entries for my 
> 4th-great grandfather, Emmor Jefferson Stephens.  When I viewed the 
> actual image however, I found that "Emmor" was actually "Summer", and 
> "Jefferson" was in an article about our founding father,  while 
> "Stephens" appeared in an article about a "lady of the evening"!  I 
> stopped using this particular function of the Ancestry search because it 
> seems to be an exercise in futility.  I'd be interested to know if 
> anyone else is using this with success...
>  
> Carla
>  
>  
> STEPHENS, WHEALDON, HAWLEY, SHIELDS in Oregon and Washington
>