Why I Love — and How to Use — the Newspaper Collections at MyHeritage

MyHeritage Webinars, Sunny Morton
Nov 9, 2020
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About this webinar

MyHeritage is home to millions of digitized newspaper pages. Learn how the site's Record Matches technology helps you identify, review and extract information from obituaries, news articles and more right into your family tree. Learn tips to optimize newspaper discoveries, including a little-known trick for searching within specific newspaper titles.

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MyHeritage is the leading global destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history. Our platform and DNA kits make it easy for anyone, anywhere to embark on a meaningful journey into ...
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Sunny Morton is a popular lecturer for the global genealogy community. She's a Contributing Editor at Family Tree Magazine and the author of hundreds of articles and blog posts, as well as the brand n...
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  1. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    5 years ago

    Sunny produces such great webinars! they are clear, concise and well thought out. She gave us a couple of tips that I will use to locate my elusive Irish ancestors. Thanks, Sunny!\n\nSunny provided lots of interesting information and was a great speaker!!!\n\nSunny was easy to understand and passed on a lot of knowledge that will help me search newspapers more successfully.\n\nSunny, I cannot but help learn some new information, tips and techniques each and every time I watch one of your amazing webinars. Thank you!\n\nSuper.\n\nThank you for all of the great information to search newspapers. I have found some information in newspapers, but looking forward to finding much more. Sunny, your name fits your personality. :) I always enjoy your webinars.\n\nThank you for all those tips. (I wish I had an "override" button so I could give 6 stars!)\n\nThank you for the information regarding finding newspaper articles. It sounds like Sunny knows a lot about genealogy research in Ohio. Maybe she can do a webinar in the future on that subject.\n\nThank you for this webinar! I loved all of the search pointers- can't wait to try them out!\n\nThank you to Sunny Jane Morton for an excellent webinar. Although I have searched newspapers in the past, I learned more ways on how to find what I am looking for. Her slides were filled with techniques, and I appreciate her sharing with us. Five stars!\n\nThanks for the great information! I love Sunny's webinars!\n\nThe information was more basic than I expected. There was nothing new for me until the search tips. The presenter was engaging, lively, and sunny! Well versed in the field.\n\nThe information will help me to try looking at newspaper for ancestors \n\nThis was an excellent presentation, as Sunny Morton's always are! It was very informative, and I can't wait to start researching the newspapers!\n\nThis webinar is very informative. It answered my questions about researching newspapers effectively and efficiently. Sunny Morton is a very knowledgeable and exciting speaker. This webinar was a lot of fun!!\n\nUseful information.\n\nVery enjoyable!\n\nvery helpful\n\nVery helpful information; and her bubbly, happy voice makes me smile.\n\nVery informative and interesting to listen to!\n\nVery informative topic and I really enjoyed the speaker, Sunny Morton. She talked at a lively pace, fast enough to hold my interest, but slow enough that I could take notes. Great slides, too! Thank you!\n\nVery interesting\n\nvery interesting. Can't wait to see what I can find!\n\nVery interesting. Presented in a clear and understandable way. Thanks.\n\nVery practical hands on information delivered in an upbeat manner.\n\nVery Sunny indeed !!\n\nvery well presented, and excellent detail.\n\nVery well presented. Gave me better insight in navigating this web site.\n\nwas great I learnt so much about My Heritage\n\nwell done \n\nWell done, TY!\n\nWell organized and interesting.\n\nWell-done - thank you!\n\nwonderful\n\nWONDERFUL information about newspapers on MyHeritage! \n\nWOW! This was fun and exciting! I can’t do anything else now because I need to do Newspaper research right away.

  2. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    5 years ago

    Always "Sunny" at the webinars! Great info. It was so helpful it was distracting (Geoff)! :)\n\nAlways enjoy Sunny's webinars! Her enthusiasm ("sunniness") is contagious! :-)\n\nAlways good and learned a lot.\n\nAlways something to learn\n\nAmazing suggestions. Loved the photo enhancement trick.\n\nAnother great presentation.\n\nAnother great webinar by Sunny!\n\nAppreciated Sunny's expertise and enthusiasm. thanks for having her do this webinar\n\nAs a beginner I found this to be very informative, thank you.\n\nAs usual, I learned so much and can't wait to go back and review and discover!!!!\n\nawesome, thank you!!\n\nBig help here. Thanks\n\nBoth informative and entertaining!\n\neasy to follow, "sunny" disposition & presentation...IDEAL!\n\nEnjoy Sonny's presentations. Now I will have something to do tonight\n\nenthusiastic new information\n\nExcellant! Sunny showed several features I did not know about newspaper results at my heritage.\n\nexcellent\n\nExcellent\n\nExcellent information! \n\nExcellent presentation and YES she does have the sunny voice - so cheerful and happy,\n\nExcellent presentation!\n\nExcellent topic, excellent speaker. Thank you.\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent! I have her book Story of my life, looking to get started\n\nExcellent! Searching Newspapers Sunny had some terrific tips!!\n\nexcellent, thanks Team :)\n\nexpert\n\nFantastic. A lot of great information.\n\nFine speaker - very upbeat presentation. Lots of examples. I appreciated the technical explanation of OCR cf. index searching.\n\nNice insights, Really appreciate getting to know MyHeritage better.\n\nFull of neat tips and examples. Great job, Sunny. \n\nFun webinar from Sunny on finding newspaper bits about our ancestors on MyHeritage! Helped me understand how to make my searches more successful and less complicated! Handout was also helpful - just reading it taught me two different nuggets!! Thanks so much for these wonderful webinars! \n\nFun webinar with a lot of good information. Anxious to try it out now.\n\nGood info!\n\nGood info, thanks.\n\nGood information. I can't wait to dig into newspapers more deeply. Thank you.\n\nGood insights and helpful info.\n\nGood presentation style and good information Thank you\n\nGood presenter and tips\n\nGood will review again\n\nGreat\n\nGreat help! Thanks!\n\nGreat hints for how to research newspapers. Loved the idea of putting a place in the name field.\n\nGreat hints! I wouldn't think of following an "ex" for information on a person/family. Comments about how My Heritage works for linking trees with newspaper articles, using name fields for keywords, etc. are going to make my searches more efficient! \n\nGreat ideas. Most of the newspapers I need to access are not digitized, but My Heritage has useful clips from them anyway! Can't wait to look for more.\n\nGREAT info, as usual!! Thank you!\n\nGreat info. I wish I could afford the subscription so I could take advantage of all the great information & records. Thanks. \n\nGreat information \n\nGreat information!\n\nGreat information.\n\nGreat information.\n\nGreat presentation! So much I need to learn to use on My Heritage and this opens up an opportunity for newspapers. Thanks!\n\ngreat presentation. a little too much intro for me, would like more tips/pointers on actual search experience within MH. Well presented and organized, Sunny!\n\nGreat stuff. Thanks Sunny and Geoff and My Heritage!\n\nGreat tips

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