During this holiday season as you’re enjoying time with family, spice up conversation with copies of records you’ve found. Check out the free historical newspaper sample pages online at Ancestry.com. These actual news accounts of historical events are bound to get the conversation and memories flowing. And check out the letters to Santa that appeared in newspapers from the 1920s and 30s. They are bound to stir up memories of Christmases past. Who knows? Maybe among those memories you’ll find a clue you can use in your family history quest!
AWJ Editor’s Update (28 December 2006): The problem has now been fixed and the images are available. –Juliana
I have often referred to the old newspapers with luck
searching for information on my relatives.
Today is Christmas Day. I could not get the newspaper
articles shown, altho I did get the dates and lists…..did
I misunderstand? Just that, not the actual stories?
R
Dear Ancestry.com,
Please send me my password. I will have some time this season to look at the family file I created. Thanks for your help!
Pat Oliver
[email protected]
When I try to see the Free Historical newspaper pages I keep gettin a triangle that says an error occured while trying to open this page. Do you know why this is happening?
It says free access; however, I am getting an error message, as I see that other people are also receiving.
I could not get any of the images to pull up. Always stater “Error on page”