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<\/a>When I started my research with GenealogyBank, I assumed my family was so \u201cordinary\u201d that we wouldn\u2019t be in the newspapers \u2013 but when I found my 2nd-great-grandparents\u2019 wedding announcement, it opened up many possibilities and I\u2019ve been finding key family facts ever since.<\/p>\n
I have been amazed at the depth of GenealogyBank \u2013 for example, it\u2019s hard to find Native American documents like this image of an early Native American census recorded on a buffalo robe.<\/p>\n Early in my career I was the Director of Special Collections at the University of South Florida Library in Tampa, Florida. For several years, I joined with Nicol\u00e1s Kanellos, PhD, in applying for grants for our effort to document and preserve Spanish-language newspapers published in the United States. Issue by issue, newspaper by newspaper, we tracked down these old newspapers and got them microfilmed. The USF Library has a large collection of these Hispanic newspapers.<\/p>\n I was thrilled years later when these Spanish-language newspapers were incorporated into GenealogyBank. Click here to see GenealogyBank’s Hispanic American Newspaper Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n When I was the Library Director at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, I had the opportunity to immerse myself in America\u2019s earliest newspapers. I was really impressed with the massive ethnic newspaper collection at the Balch Institute there in Philadelphia (now permanently housed at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania), and the large African American Newspaper Collection jointly curated with the Library Company of Philadelphia. Having this content added to GenealogyBank has been a high point for me. This strong, unique information is invaluable for genealogists.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>