Content
Welcome
1m 28s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 18s
Introduction
8m 48s
Tips for Searching
10m 8s
News stories
14m 9s
OCR
15m 14s
Sources
10m 57s
Announcements / prizes
3m 41s
Questions / answers
16m 29s
About this webinar
Researching in old newspapers no longer means sitting at a microfilm reader for hours on end, winding through a seemingly endless string of news stories and advertisements. Today, the results we seek could be a matter of minutes away, thanks to the many digitization projects that have placed millions of newspaper pages on the Internet. But what are the pitfalls? This presentation takes you through the digitization process, from hard copy to your computer screen. It is designed to help you achieve the best results from your work. (Note: Dave Obee has worked in newspapers for 50 years, has researched with them for 50 years, and has been behind a major digitization project. This talk draws from real experience.)
About the speaker
Dave Obee is a journalist and genealogical researcher who has written a dozen books and given more than 700 presentations at conferences and seminars in Canada, the United States and Australia since 1...
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Comments (105)
Thanks once again for a well presented and so informative webinar. I especially appreciated all of the Canadian references LOL.
OMG - I have a subscription to Newspapers.com, but have not searched the other resources listed. And his method of documenting what he has researched and found - what I have not been doing. I feel like such an idiot. THANK YOU for this great resource.
This was fabulous! So much info. I need to re-watch. thank you so much!
Dave gave me a goldmine of information. I always learn so much from Dave. Another great webinar!!!
there's a lot to learn from what he showed.
I am rethinking how to use newspapers in my research.
David Obee is also so captivating and informative. Great information on newspapers.
Great insight to optimize your search results in old newspapers. Also appreciated the endorsement of using old newspapers to research lead on new DNA matches- my hottest current challenge for our family right now, as we have just discovered a mis-attributed parentage thruugh recent DNA testing!!