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Subject: [SC] America's Chronicles SM
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:02:18 EDT

FYI from another list. 

This sounds like a wonderful opportunity for those of us doing family
research.

WASHINGTON - June 11, 2001 - More than 20,000 community newspapers, some
long out of print, have recorded American life since the 17th century and two
unique organizations have set the common goal of providing Internet access to
this documentation of American heritage. The National Newspaper Association
(NNA) and Cold North Wind Corporation signed a letter of intent today to
create America's Chronicles SM, an online search engine that accesses the
digital archives of America's community newspapers, beginning with the
archives
of the 3600 NNA member newspapers. The project could eventually result in
500,000,000 pages of original, historical content dating back to the 1600s
and will
be available online at http://www.americaschronicles.com . The site will be
launched at the NNA's 116th Annual Convention and Trade Show in Milwaukee,
September 12-15, with access to the first of many digital archives.

Fred Hawthorne
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