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Not for me. Please let us know if you receive reply from Google.

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Fantasmagori wrote:

Not for me. Please let us know if you receive reply from Google.



If I receive anything I will post it here.

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It has to be something on my home PC that is causing the problem. I tried the link at work, and everything was fine! I get home, try again, and back to "No Results Found". This is getting more and more bizarre as time goes by.



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Okay, NOW it seems to be working again on my home computer! Here is what I had to do:



Deleted the original link that I had



Go to the Google New Archive List of Newspapers



Select the one that I had been using before (The Daily

Item from Sumter, SC)



In the search box, I typed in "wrestling Abe Jacobs" as CHall used in his try.



It gave me the page he had with 877 results.



Still don't know it went all wonky on me!

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Fantasmagori wrote:

Not for me. Please let us know if you receive reply from Google.



Seems for me that if I try search from scratch, I have to start from google.co.uk, and no news results are found. google.com cannot be accessed from the UK, and I presume not from Denmark either. If I use one of the links above, I can search from within google.com, and I can get the newspaper archives to appear in the news results.





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texashistory.unt.edu/search/?fq=dc_type%3Atext_newspaper&sort=date_a&explore=True



Just found this site for small town Texas newspapers. Already finding Amarillo territory spot shows from the 1970s.





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Nice find Kriss.

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Ron wrote:Nice find Kriss.

I agree.



I also think Ron's sig is awesome.





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Oh I saved that post when mask wrote that.

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Every time Newspaper Archive upgrade their site, they fuck the whole thing up. If I try two searches in a row, it brings to a facebook log in screen and I have to log out and log in to get another search done. It was perfectly fine way it was.



Edit:



I'll admit, the pages load a lot faster now.



After logging in for a third time, it seems to be working okay now.

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Interesting article about FultonHistory



reason.com/reasontv/2013/03/05/amateur-beats-gov-at-digitizing-newspape


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Has anyone been using Newspaper Archive recently? They continue to add thousands of new newspapers every day. I had presumed that their claims of this were BS, since very little new stuff ever appeared in searches. The browse new additions now works, and there are lots of new papers available.



Problem is that hardly any of it is indexed for searching. The Lubbock stuff I am adding at the moment, I;m having to search each newspaper. That's fine for weekly towns when you know the dates, but a bit trickier for researching spot shows.



I was having a look at Wichita Falls, TX which has just been added, and there are newspapers available for when the town was a weekly venue, but nothing appears when using search.



I had a chat with them on the help text chat and they weren't much help at all, said it all seemed to be working fine.



Funny that they now advertise "Hablamos Español" for their help facility. What they don't tell you is that they don't speak very good English.





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As far as the search results go, I haven't noticed any difference, either. Didn't even realize they added that many papers.





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Hisa wrote:

As far as the search results go, I haven't noticed any difference, either. Didn't even realize they added that many papers.



If you click on Browse > Newly Added Content you get everything added in the past 90 days, and it is definitely being updated regularly. I don't see any of it in searches, though, and some of it is only available in Java, trying to load the PDF crashes my browser.





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Very comprehensive



www.theancestorhunt.com/newspaper-research-links.html


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indikator wrote:Very comprehensive



www.theancestorhunt.com/newspaper-research-links.htmlCool. Tough to look at on a phone but cool nonetheless.





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Quick question for the experts. Does anyone know how to get the OCR for all of the articles over at NewspaperArchive.com?



Reason I ask is I was doing some searching in the Amarillo territory on Noah Jones (of all people), and came across this one for the Pecos paper...



newspaperarchive.com/pecos-enterprise-sep-18-1978-p-6/



At the very bottom it has the OCR text, which is all I really care about. But other papers do not have that. Was this just dumb luck, or is there a way to get that across every paper. Lots of spot shows from Hereford that I'd like to get (yeah, too cheap to pay for subscription), and quite a few Del Rio cards that I can't find in Newspapers.com As always, thank you for your help!!!

Just a quick update, looks like some of the other papers have it, but not all.

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While you might question whether it's worth it, others outside of the wrestling sphere certainly have, I've spent at least $100 a year on various newspaper archives over the past 15 years of so. I don't really have any inclination to help someone who is "too cheap" to pay for it.



While any new research is always welcome, thorough research requires being able to access any newspaper, since not everything appears just with a simple search due to bad scans. OCR text is nonexistent or very bad with many of the newspapers which weren't scanned in hi-res, which has only been standard for the past 3 or 4 years.

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By chance I found a Spanish NYC paper (La Prensa), which might have a good number of ~1928-1938 shows, especially from the smaller Star Casino. It's hosted on Memoriademadrid.es . Not sure where the search interface it, I just used the "site: " search on google. It might even be helpful for finding out promoters, like here (June 18th 1934)







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Just wanted to give some props to Boxrec.com again for being a good archive for old school fighters. When I find split boxing and wrestling cards, I find that the boxers results will show up on the fighter records more readily than the wrestlers, which has helped locate a specific year if the lineup sheet or poster doesn't identify it.

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I have been linking photos of various posters and lineup sheets on several threads with Worthpoint.com being the source. They archive old online auctions such as ebay for long periods, much longer than the original sites care to.



Because there are visibility issues when clicking these links and giving a "Forbidden" prompt, you can apparently open Worthpoint in a separate tab and that should give you the ability to view these hyperlinks. You don't need to login or register there; you can view these old auctions but just can't see the selling prices as a guest.

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Just a note to pass along a time-saving tactic I may have mentioned in one of the threads but this would be the place to put it.

When I want to determine whether one of my listings is worth adding to a career record, I now go into the Clawmaster's Archives forum itself and do a search for a specific thread before opening it. You can click "Search This Forum Only" once you are in this sub-directory, which greatly reduces the number of results compared to a search from the main page. This has been most effective in dealing with these whoppers of lists like Wilbur Snyder and Dick the Bruiser.

When you open the thread from a search rather than from the forum itself, it opens as one complete page. I can then locate dates or locations more easily by typing it into a "find" request; sometimes I use a name on the lineup which might be a rare search term. With only one page to search, it moves more quickly than the prospect of opening multiple pages.

Just now I added a Snyder result and noticed that there are about 800 replies to that thread, and each page is only 15 replies at one time. As I scrolled down, I saw a case where Chitown Rich searched one section of pages for an update but didn't see it updated in another. I don't know if this tactic is common knowledge but I have been using it for about three months with great satisfaction.





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clipcorner wrote:http://www.elephind.com/



I just found this website earlier today. I have found a few Canberra Australia clippings. I haven't checked it out enough yet to know what other newspapers are available.











This site looks great as I search it today; I didn't use it back in 2013 when it was initially mentioned but I stumbled onto it back in July and extracted many results or at least the lineups from articles and advertisements. This link below gets you to a list of available papers as it stands today, alphabetized by nation.

elephind.com/?a=p&p=browsepubs&e=-------en-10--1--txt-txINtxCO----------


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I don't know if anyone here can take advantage of it in their given location, but I found a way to access newspapers that are behind a subscription wall by utilizing a login to a statewide consortia with my library card number and entering which location it is issued. There are some points where I am logged out after inactivity and I have to sign in again, but it's a small annoyance to be able to look through new material. It's a lot of transcription and toggling between screens but I have found wrestling references in everything from high school and university newspapers, to databases with video segments covering wrestling from many angles.

For fellow Wisconsin residents who want to try it, this link can get you started:

badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/resources



I would presume that other states have a similar opportunity. They occasionally pop up a screen wanting you to utilize the trial feature, but I bypass it because I don't choose to make a clipped article. Being able to search at home instead of going to the library itself is a great benefit.

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My latest search engine pro tip is that using the quoted phrase "wrestling card" draws a bunch more results for news articles than most other derivatives, and I'm uncovering some very targeted mentions in papers I looked through previously. "Wrestling" by itself is waay too broad a term, so I am pleased with these results.

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One Fan Gang wrote:My latest search engine pro tip is that using the quoted phrase "wrestling card" draws a bunch more results for news articles than most other derivatives, and I'm uncovering some very targeted mentions in papers I looked through previously. "Wrestling" by itself is waay too broad a term, so I am pleased with these results. VERY interesting. I will try that. I've been searching by either the arena, a "busy" wrestler from the area, or as you said "wrestling".





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I've recently experienced a problem with NewspaperArchive.com where multiple issues from different years are combined in a single listing. I am reporting them as I find them, but should you find a listing that confuses you because it seems like it is in the wrong year, double check the date on the paper.



I was searching some early Roy Welch information and found that on several issues from the Dec 1931 Clovis News Journal, the first half of the paper (pp1-8) was Dec 1931, but the second half (pp9-16) was actually from March 1932.



It is a small thing, but can go a long way toward contributing to bad information being propagated in your research.

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I have been going to this link since it's autofilled in my browser, and it has given me plenty of routes to take as I decide where to search:



theancestorhunt.com/blog/90-million-historic-u-s-newspaper-pages-now-available-from-advantage-archives/



But of late I have gone to the drop-down menus at the top under "More" and selected their "Newsletters" option, which gives you access to their bi-monthly Ancestor Hunt newsletter. Within each issue they have links to any updates that were made to their site in the previous two weeks. When you open any link within that list, like "Puerto Rico Online Newspapers Summary" for example, they will highlight within that link any territorial updates, and those regions may have been something you haven't seen to explore previously. Part of me wants to index where I have been and where I have yet to go, but there is a vast enough range of options that I won't worry about it; the worst case is that I may double post a card I explored months ago and didn't recognize.



Anyway, the newsletter is just over a year old, and this link will take you to all of the previous issues. The updates in each cover details in many of the main research sites, so no matter what sites you frequent, you're bound to find something of note.



theancestorhunt.com/newsletters.html


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One Fan Gang wrote:





I have been going to this link since it's autofilled in my browser, and it has given me plenty of routes to take as I decide where to search:



theancestorhunt.com/blog/90-million-historic-u-s-newspaper-pages-now-available-from-advantage-archives/





Wow, thanks for this. I'd been hoping to find Fort Smith, Arkansas papers, and there it is, at least up to 1938, which is perfect for me.

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Here is a link for search results in Missouri which shows a list of papers that at one point were linked through TheAncestorhunt but appear to have been reclassified so that old link no longer works.

I'm hoping that any hyperlinks I provide with results from there can be accessed and viewed, but I guess I'm always skeptical.





shsmo.org/collections/newspapers/mdnp







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This announcement is shown at the top of search results from the elephind.com site and has been there a few days. It seems you can do a search to find individual newspapers but cannot go to the scanned pages themselves to read them in-depth:





"As a consequence of the data center losing power last Friday the file server is down and images are not available. We are working to replace the failed hardware. Thank you for your patience."

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The elephind news archives have had a partial compromise as it relates to newspapers under the California category, at least. There was a note at the top of those pages about an outage that occurred about two weeks ago. You could get search results but clicking them would only show broken links for the visual display of the connective scan images that comprise the pages in question that you were seeking. This week, you will see an updated message indicating they have partially restored the archive but continue to work to restore image access.



Once again for reference, here is a front page for newspaper searches under Elephind. As mentioned, the issue with California searches has been the extent of the issue as I have found thus far, but there may be other issues.



elephind.com/?a=p&p=browsepubs&e=-------en-10--1--txt-txINtxCO----------

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Checked the California collection again today and the header noted that all access to images has now been restored, thanking the users for their patience.

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I don't know if anyone here can take advantage of it in their given location, but I found a way to access newspapers that are behind a subscription wall by utilizing a login to a statewide consortia with my library card number and entering which location it is issued. There are some points where I am logged out after inactivity and I have to sign in again, but it's a small annoyance to be able to look through new material. It's a lot of transcription and toggling between screens but I have found wrestling references in everything from high school and university newspapers, to databases with video segments covering wrestling from many angles.

For fellow Wisconsin residents who want to try it, this link can get you started:

badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/resources



I would presume that other states have a similar opportunity. They occasionally pop up a screen wanting you to utilize the trial feature, but I bypass it because I don't choose to make a clipped article. Being able to search at home instead of going to the library itself is a great benefit.





It seems that now, despite being able to search newspapers.com through my library link, the site itself has put some of the basic tools like rotating the screen within the walls of their specific logins, meaning you need to subscribe specifically through them to access these tools. One some search sites you can use your computer to rotate the entire screen, but I cannot make it work on this site.