Wise County Genealogical Society

Events

Event Information:

  • Thu
    21
    Jan
    2016

    Patti Gillespie: Newspaper Research: Tips, Tricks, Sites, and Context.

    7:00 pmThe Decatur Church of Christ

    Patti Gillespie will be presenting;  Newspaper Research: Tips, Tricks, Sites, and Context.  Using newspapers that have become available to us in the digital age is a necessary step in our research.  This presentation will demonstrate some of the tricks to searching with OCR, how to determine if a newspaper in a given area is even digitally available, finding the free newspapers, and how to put these articles into historical context.