Category Archives: Newspapers

End of an Era: The Providence Journal

Last March (2025), The Providence Journal stopped printing operations at its Fountain Street location in Rhode Island. Its owner, Gannett Co., Inc., the proprietor of several national newspapers, made the decision to end operations at their production facility and move..

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My Activist Ancestors

“Clubbed in Rent Riots”—while digging online for information about my great-great-grandparents, this sensationalistic headline from The Baltimore Sun leapt out of the screen, grabbing my attentionmore than one hundred years after it was first published.

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Finding Irish Origins in Newspaper Archives

Those of us researching our Irish roots are always hoping to discover our family’s place of origin in Ireland. But even after searching diligently for every scrap of information possible in U.S. records, we are often left frustrated. Too many U.S. records simply list..

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The Search for Hannah Hobart’s Missing Husbands

I recently went searching through newspaper records for information about the family of John Doane of Eastham for the next Early New England Families (ENEF) sketch. Newspaper resources about 17th- and 18th-century families are rare, but do exist for larger cities such..

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