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From: "Bill Pennington" <>
Subject: [PENNINGTON-L] Fw: CHICAGO TRIBUNE ARCHIVES BEING SCANNED
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 19:12:59 -0400

Hi Cousins, I don't know how many Penningtons were in and around
Chicago, but this would help them or anyone else with Chicago
ancestors.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles D.Degener <>
To: <>
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 9:26 PM
Subject: CHICAGO TRIBUNE ARCHIVES BEING SCANNED

>This came from my "Ancestry" Newsletter.
>
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>CHICAGO TRIBUNE ARCHIVES BEING SCANNED
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>The Chicago Tribune has contracted with Progressive Technology
Federal
>Systems, Inc. (PTFS) to digitize a significant portion of the Chicago
>Tribune's archives collection, creating a fully searchable digital
library
>covering material from 1849 to the present. Content to be digitized
>includes more than fifteen million newspaper clippings from the early
1900s
>to 1984, the full text and image of every front page from 1849
through the
>present, and the full text of all obituaries and death notices from
1849
>through 1997. The project is reportedly the largest digitization
effort to
>be undertaken by a newspaper.
>
>Here's hoping more newspapers take their cue.
>
>To read the entire press release, go to:
>http://www.ptfs.com/trib_press.html
>
>Thanks to Chip Rowe and John Scroggins for sharing this info!
>
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