Subscription Databases:
Magazines & Newspapers—Detailed Descriptions, Page 3
Chicago Tribune (1985–Current), Detroit Free Press (1982–Current), Detroit News (2002–Current) and Washington Post (1977–Current): Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
In addition, Newsbank now offers America's GenealogyBank, featuring:
- Follow Your Family Through America's History: Climb beyond the names and dates on your family tree to the recorded details of their daily lives.
Find the facts in four centuries of fragile, rare newspapers, books and documents.
- Historical Newspapers 1690–1977: Quickly find names and keywords in over 92 million articles, obituaries, marriage notices, birth announcements and other items published in more than 500,000 issues of over 1,300 historical U.S. newspapers. New content added monthly.
- Historical Books 1801–1900: A unique source that provides you with complete text of more than 11,700 books, pamphlets and printed items including: genealogies, biographies, funeral sermons, local histories, cards, charts and more - all published in the U.S. prior to 1900. New content added monthly.
- Historical Documents 1789–1980: Find military records, casualty lists, Revolutionary and Civil War pension requests, widow's claims, orphan petitions, land grants and much more including all of the American State Papers (1789-1838) and all genealogical content carefully selected from the U.S. Serial Set (1817-1980). More than 119,000 reports, lists and documents. Now digitizing March 1919 with plans to complete content through 1930 by December 2007 and through 1980 by 2009. New content added monthly.
- America's Obituaries 1977 to current: Obituaries contain helpful information such as names, dates, places of birth, death, marriage and family information. Over 27 million obituaries make this the most complete collection from the 20th and 21st centuries - includes more than 900 U.S. newspapers. New content added daily.
- Social Security Death Index 1937 to current:
Search 80 million death records and get genealogical information crucial to your family research. New content added weekly.
An informative database of full-text articles organized into 15 categories. Useful for student research of social issues.
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