Newspapers.com - Is There Anything You Want Looked Up?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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20,700 newspapers from the 1700s–2000s

If you have a date, or a person, something significant (or not) that’s interesting, I’ll look it up, download it as a gif, upload it on imgur and post the link.

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If you can find anything on Adam Hyler or Adam Huyler 1776 to 1782. He was a local privateer renown for his raids on British shipping during the Revolution.

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I found three… One has just a small mention. I plan on reading it later.
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Newspapers from which countries?

Edited to add: Never mind, I went to newspapers.com and looked myself.

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Is republishing and/or sharing these documents allowed under Ancestry dot com’s terms of service?

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Shot in the dark here. I know someone who had a newspaper article about his first deer kill. It would have been 1970-1975 in a Saltsburg Pennsylvania newspaper. Search terms “Bridge Slickville Larry 8-point”.

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No.

  • To use the Ancestry Content only as necessary for your personal use of the Services or your professional family history research;
  • To download the Ancestry Content only as search results relevant to such research or where expressly permitted by Ancestry;
  • To keep all copyright and other proprietary notices on any Ancestry Content you download or print;
  • Not to distribute, republish, or sell significant portions of any Ancestry Content; and,
  • To contact us to obtain our written permission if you want to use more than a small portion of individual photos and documents that are Public Domain Content.
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I searched, 0 results.

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I am an engineer, not a lawyer, but my understanding of copyright is that anything prior to 1924 (I think - it’s somewhere around there) at this point is fair game. So if you want to copy newspaper articles from that time, there’s no copyright issue.

However, in this particular case, Ancestry has gone to the effort of scanning and maintaining copies of these documents. Even though the documents are no longer under copyright, it is a violation of Ancestry’s terms of use to search for things for other people’s research. I don’t know if it legally falls under theft of services or not, but it’s close enough that we don’t want to permit this sort of thing here.

This is closed.