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From: "John Steitz" <>
Subject: Re: [ALL] Old Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspapers to be digitizedbyGoogle
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:46:51 -0400
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Yes, I would conclude this is "challenged site " but it is a vast
improvement over what I could find yesterday so with the hope it will
continue to improve, fantastic. I have received information through this
source that I simply didn't have before today. I wish all the days were
there. I wish that it would do a better job of searching for the search
words, It misses lots of them. I hope for earlier papers. But this is a
major positive step but like any other tool we just need to fiddle with it a
bit while it develops.
John
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Dana Spriggs <>wrote:

> Al - it was the Google News Archive. the article appeared on the left side
> of the screen with the name highlighted in yellow. But over on the right
> side of the screen is the entire newspaper for that day with a blue box
> highlighting the part of the page with the article. By moving the blue box
> on the minature screen I was able to see the entire paper for that day on
> the left. Its sort of like looking at microfiche. Dana
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Al Lenkner <>
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:27:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [ALL] Old Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspapers to be digitizedby
> Google
>
>
> Dana,
>
> Yours was the last piece of email that I received so I thought I'd
> give your words of advice a try, the only difference is that I used
> names of my interest. The first hit was for a fire I had in Rodef
> Shalom in 1990 and that was the newest. I checked that and the other
> hits and they all pointed to Post-Gazette's archives which is
> DEFINITELY a paid site. Try your names again and see where it leads
> you........... to Google's archives or the PG's.
>
> Al
>
>
>
> At 09:08 PM 9/11/2008, you wrote:
> >It worked for me with a bit of sorting. I entered a surname in the
> >"find results with all of the words or at least one of the words"
> >block, entered approximate years (from and to) and entered
> >"Pittsburgh Post Gazette" in the source. I got six pages listing
> >news article "hits" for the surname I entered - not all obits but by
> >sorting through them I found a number of obits for the year range I
> entered.
>
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