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How to Save Newspaper Articles to Your Computer

You can search millions of historical newspaper articles at Findmypast.
​Find out how to save them to your computer with this handy tutorial.

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Why use newspapers?

Newspapers may focus on a small community or the world, a nation, or a state. They may serve a general audience or a particular ethnic, religious, racial, or political group.
Newspapers report family information within notices of births, marriages, and deaths (obituaries), and local news.

• Newspapers usually began before government birth, marriage, and death records, often published soon after the initial settlement of a locality.
• Newspapers may serve as a substitute for civil records that were destroyed.
• Unlike most government records, newspaper articles are not limited to a form. Thus, newspapers may contain details not found in more structured records.
• Newspapers can report marriages, deaths or accomplishments of people who no longer live in the area but who still have friends or family there.

Check newspapers from a week or two before or after a wedding, funeral, or wedding anniversary to find mention of out-of-town visitors and relatives.