[TI] What Newspaper Archive can do....

Fri Feb 1 20:17:51 CST 2008

Sharon, Did you sign up for the information that you have to pay for?
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Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [TI] What Newspaper Archive can do....


> Josie,
>
> www.newpaperarchive.com has 74.8 million pages, covers 709 cities, 239 
> years and 2,717 titles.
>
> Even though some of the larger city newspapers are not in this archive, 
> many of the smaller papers pick up articles that are printed in the larger 
> papers......so, the killing of cousin Gus showed up in over 14 newspapers 
> from across the nation, even though the killing was in St. Louis.
>
> I just found a small article  15 minutes ago about cousin Rosie Pitti, who 
> was abducted in Reno, Nevada at the age of 4  in 1916 while she slept in 
> the back seat of uncle Louie's car. The family was vacationing there. Some 
> guy stole that car and then left it, not knowing she was asleep in the 
> car.  Rosie didn't wake up until the guy stopped the car and got out. 
> This stuff is amazing.
>
> I would definitely check this out and don't do a search for just one 
> city....I let it show me all locations and some of the stuff just blows me 
> away.  You can do centralized searches if you want to.  Or, just them by 
> state, or by time period.  You are bound to find something that you did 
> not know about.
>
> Sharon
>
> I
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Josie Daly" <jotd at myclearwave.net>
>> Sharon, Is this newspaper archieve just for a particular city or does it
>> access all newspaper articles?  Josie Mesi Daly
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <sreif1956 at comcast.net>
>> To: "Termini list" <TerminiImerese at comunesofitaly.org>; "AJ Murphy"
>> <WtnMurphy at aol.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:50 PM
>> Subject: [TI] What Newspaper Archive can do....
>>
>>
>> > So, here I am talking with my distant cousin from California, swapping
>> > stories about the "family"....I mentioned that the St. Louis church 
>> > record
>> > said Uncle Joe and his wife Blanche were married in the hospital in 
>> > March
>> > of 1924....the notation said that the "spositi in danger of death".  I
>> > pulled up an article about uncle Joe who had outfitted his gas station
>> > with bullet-proof armor for fear of being assassinated, but he forgot 
>> > to
>> > put on his own armor one day  in 1924 and was shot.  The light bulb in 
>> > our
>> > heads turned on and we figure uncle Joe was shot and while in the 
>> > hospital
>> > his lovely Blanche decided to marry him there....calling on the 
>> > Italiian
>> > priest to rush to the hospital to perform the nuptials.  Dear cousin 
>> > was
>> > not born until 1928, and she remembers Uncle Joe being shot while she 
>> > was
>> > a little tyke and her mother having to help take care of Uncle Joe at 
>> > that
>> > time....which means Joe got shot two times.  Then in 1931, the drive-by
>> > machine-gunners came by and blasted the plac
>> > e with bullets, leaving Uncle Gus, Joe's brother, laying dead on the
>> > pavement,  a cousin, Mary Mercurio in critical condition with 9 bullet
>> > wounds and another woman, Ms. Linder, just being grazed by a single 
>> > shot.
>> >
>> > Now, family deny that the brothers had anything to do with the Mafioso 
>> > in
>> > town, but when the brothers had an arrest record that contained over 19
>> > arrests, one has to wonder......
>> >
>> > Newspaper Archive has a deal for $20.00 for a short period of 
>> > time....if
>> > you have time to get this and need to find information in news articles
>> > like I did, it is well worth the money.  I have uncovered an article 
>> > about
>> > cousin Tony who died in San Antonio, Texas in 1947.  He never turned up 
>> > in
>> > the ss death index because of the early death date.  I have photos of
>> > Tony'w wife from the front page of the San Antonio paper.  I have
>> > uncovered the information on the social page about cousin Josephine who
>> > had a second marriage in some East Podunk town in Iowa through a civil
>> > service, and her sister and brother-in-law from Rock Island, Illinois
>> > showed up to witness the event.  I found another article about cousin
>> > Frank who owned a tavern in St. Louis, robbed by a guy with a peg leg, 
>> > and
>> > how Frank chased the guy down the street while standing on the running
>> > board of a passing truck and finally recovering the $14 from the gimp, 
>> > and
>> > turning him over to the cops. i found information about a "m
>> > ystery wife" of cousin Bartlo, who had some years in Jefferson City 
>> > State
>> > Pen.  Her brother passed away, and his obit gave me so much information 
>> > on
>> > her and her family.  I found an article in the Edwardsville paper about 
>> > a
>> > Giardano cousin, who was a granddaughter of uncle Pete.  I never knew 
>> > she
>> > existed, but the article told how she was going to his home in St. 
>> > Louis
>> > to visit him for a week.
>> >
>> > I got all of this information in 24 hours.  Amazing.
>> >
>> > So, here is something to add to your to-do list.  If you are stuck in a
>> > rut, check our Newspaper Archive and spend a few bucks for a short 
>> > period
>> > of time.  If your family is like mine, they turned up in the most
>> > unexpected places and probably made the papers over and over again.
>> >
>> > Read the message from Terry about having "faith" in your 
>> > research....then
>> > move ahead in this direction.
>> >
>> > Sharon Reif
>> >
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