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Ancestry.com Newspaper database search tips
- - By Nancy Lecompte
- Restricting your search to “exact” can help narrow the results.
- enter a date in the year field under Publication Info
- also allow a little wiggle room by entering +/- 1, 2, 5 or 10 years
- to search for a phrase, put it in quotes
- Search beyond your ancestor’s stomping grounds
- Try searching the entire collection for a place name (town or county) instead of a person.
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- Did your married female ancestor use her middle name for her middle initial in one record and her maiden name for her middle initial in another?
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"So you've found your ancestors among the zillions of names in online trees. Now what?"
- - By Nancy Lecompte
- Step 1: Verify the data.
- Step 4: Mine county histories.
- Step 8: Seek death details.
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