Digital Newspapers Archive

  • Samuel Waychaster, Gustavious Kelley and Wesley Phillips spent 5 April 1919 getting drunk.  While walking north on Merchant Street near 100 North in American Fork, Utah, Waychaster pulled a pistol...

    Accidental Death in American Fork ~ 5 Apr 1919

    Samuel Waychaster, Gustavious Kelley and Wesley Phillips spent 5 April 1919 getting drunk.  While walking north on Merchant Street near 100 North in American Fork, Utah, Waychaster pulled a pistol...

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  • My cousin, Lawrence Snow Featherstone lost his life at the tender age of seven through no fault of his own. Early on a summer morning in 1930, Lawrence went with...

    Accidental Death of Lawrence Featherstone

    My cousin, Lawrence Snow Featherstone lost his life at the tender age of seven through no fault of his own. Early on a summer morning in 1930, Lawrence went with...

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  • If your part of the world is like ours, less ink and paper is being published that has any resemblance of the community that existed in small town newspapers of...

    The Execution of Small Town Newspapers

    If your part of the world is like ours, less ink and paper is being published that has any resemblance of the community that existed in small town newspapers of...

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  • I’ve spent a lot of hours looking for ancestral information in old newspapers over the past few weeks.  Some of the articles brought Joy.  Others made me Sad.  Thank goodness...

    Amazing Grace

    I’ve spent a lot of hours looking for ancestral information in old newspapers over the past few weeks.  Some of the articles brought Joy.  Others made me Sad.  Thank goodness...

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  • Small town newspapers are always a family history researcher’s best friend. I’ve been looking through some old copies of one of these publications for any information on my ancestors. Recently,...

    Small Town Newspapers

    Small town newspapers are always a family history researcher’s best friend. I’ve been looking through some old copies of one of these publications for any information on my ancestors. Recently,...

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  • Dennis Allen frequently speaks about all of the genealogical information he finds in old newspapers housed in the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU. These wonderful resources are often overlooked...

    Historical Newspapers

    Dennis Allen frequently speaks about all of the genealogical information he finds in old newspapers housed in the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU. These wonderful resources are often overlooked...

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