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From: "lapiubella1" <>
Subject: Re: [ALL] Old Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspapers to be digitizedby Google
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:25:01 -0400
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This is up and running right now, and I just gave it a try.
Go to the Google home page, click on the NEWS icon in the upper left. Then
go to: " News Archive Search" found underneath the Google logo. On the next
screen chose "advanced archive search" (Looks like the earliest papers are
1930-1932.)
http://news.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search?hl=en
In "Find Results" insert Pittsburgh Post Gazette"
and the date you want. It worked for me.
I got a short (very short) factual obit for a gal from the Northside in Dec
1935.

happy hunting,
Bella


----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Braund" <>
To: "Allegheny County List" <>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:50 PM
Subject: [ALL] Old Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspapers to be digitized by
Google


> This will be a wonderful research tool for those with ancestors in the
> Pittsburgh region:
>
> Google expands search in old newspapers
> Mon Sep 8, 2008 3:50pm EDT
>
> SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has stepped up efforts to digitize
> dozens of historical newspapers and make scanned images of the original
> papers available online, the Internet search leader said on Monday.
>
> In a blog post on the Silicon Valley-based company's website, Google said
> it
> is looking to make old newspapers searchable online by partnering with
> newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.
>
> The effort involves the archives of dozens of newspaper titles and expands
> on a two-year-old effort by Google to work with two major U.S.
> newspapers --
> The New York Times and Washington Post -- to index old papers in Google
> News
> Archive.
>
> "Not only will you be able to search these newspapers, you'll also be able
> to browse through them exactly as they were printed -- photographs,
> headlines, articles, advertisements and all," Google product manager Punit
> Soni said in the blog post.
>
> The new papers range from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "the first
> newspaper
> West of the Alleghenies" (the Allegheny Mountains), to the Quebec
> Chronicle-Telegraph, which has continuously published for 244 years,
> making
> it North America's oldest lasting paper.
>
> The additional newspapers allow readers to see how newspapers of bygone
> days
> covered historical events.
> As an example, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's coverage of Neil Armstrong's
> (and Edwin Aldrin's) 1969 moon walk can be found at
> tinyurl.com/man-on-the-moon/.
>
> The initial newspaper partners for the digital archiving program are
> located
> in the United States and Canada, a spokesman said.
>
> "The goal is no different than Google Book Search," company spokesman
> Gabriel Stricker said, referring to Google's broad-based effort to work
> with
> major academic libraries around the world to scan older, out-of-print
> books.
> "It is just getting a lot of published offline content online."
>
> (Reporting by Eric Auchard, editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
>
> http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0846021120080908
>
>
>
>
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