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

Fri Feb 1 21:18:50 CST 2008

Yes,  I only paid the $20 for a limited time....then scanned for whatever I can get in that time.....it was a big payoff for me.  Sharon
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From: "Josie Daly" <jotd at myclearwave.net>
> Sharon, Did you sign up for the information that you have to pay for?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <sreif1956 at comcast.net>
> To: <terminiimerese at comunesofitaly.org>
> 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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