Talk:Maryland Newspapers

Sources Referenced

 * Google Search of maryland newspapers online. Search yielded diminishing returns by the second page of results, so links after the second page were ignored.
 * Cyndi's List -- Maryland Newspapers.
 * RootsWeb.org
 * USGenWeb Maryland.
 * Learning Center search at Ancestry.com. Keyword "newspaper."
 * Neil, Michael John. "Ethnic Newspapers." Internet article at http://learn.ancestry.com/LearnMore/Article.aspx?id=11282 Orem, Utah: Ancestry.com, 2 June 2006.
 * [author]. "Newspapers." The Source [get the rest of the title]. [get editors]. Orem, Utah: Ancestry Inc., [year].
 * Hansen, James L. "Newspapers." The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Rev. Ed. Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, Eds. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Inc., 1997.

Items Yet to Add

 * Image example
 * Reliability of newspapers
 * What to do next

Notes from our group meeting on 12 Dec 2008

 * 1) Blaine Bake: I'm in journalism. I've learned that an article needs a hook. It needs to present information in a way where the user is engaged within the first line or two.
 * 2) David Dilts says a genealogist is a different animal. He may not need a hook.
 * 3) Blaine: splash of color as in portal pages could be useful. What if we used a pale green background for text that is for beginners?
 * 4) Anne Roach: Recommend university libraries first. They have the best collections and ILL their collections only to other universities. They also can offer more guidance than public libraries on which papers a patron should search and how to get them.
 * 5) Blaine: public libraries and university libraries are digitizing the local papers.
 * Tip: To locate newspapers in an area, find the county seat. That's often where a newspaper is.
 * 1) Obits: Almost everybody had an obituary in the 1880s. That was the peak.
 * 2) U.S. Newspapers program is the way to find
 * 3) Tip on how to read print that's way too small on the screen for a digitized newspaper.