NewsBank

NewsBank

NEW!!

America's GenealogyBank

• Online access to primary source records and documents published over the course of four centuries
• Genealogies, obituaries, marriage notices, local histories, casualty lists, military conflict records and more
• American historical newspapers, books, government documents and other publications
• Easy-to-use, fully searchable digital copies in a single online database
• When supplemented with the late 20th- and 21st-century coverage of America’s Obituaries & Death Notices - a genealogist's dream come true!
  

Now available from NewsBank - America's GenealogyBank.  Content from the 1690's to present day for comprehensive research. For pricing, contact Diane Jonges at NewsBank, Inc., 1-800-762-8182 ext 178 or djonges@newsbank.com.  Be sure to mention your MLC membership!

America’s Newspapers
Over 640 domestic titles. All titles provide full text information and will grant you access to local newspaper coverage, regional coverage and national coverage.

• An intuitive search interface which allows users to quickly and easily search individual or multiple titles by headline, date, author, section, topic, name, relevance ranking and more.
• The ability to search by single title, a select group of newspapers or all of the newspapers within the collection at once.
• A colored map-based interface for intuitive searching.
• The option of creating your own custom lists of newspapers to track issues, topics, people in the news, etc.
• More years of archives than any other newspaper resource.
• Daily updates that keep you abreast of current events.

America’s Obituary & Death Notices
The most comprehensive database of obituaries and death notices in the United States. It is a unique resource that contains more than 15 million recent death records with new content added daily. America's Obituaries & Death Notices consolidates content from hundreds of newspapers across the nation, making it easy to find coverage of family loved ones, colleagues, friends, and prominent people from across the country.

• An intuitive colored map-based interface
• Dedicated search fields make it easy to find the name of the deceased and the date of publication
• A separate text search field offers more information about the deceased, such as family members, occupation, avocation, school and/or college, military service, church, service organizations, etc.
• Truncation capability with asterisk (*) characters expands the root of the name and locates spelling variations. Example: (librar*) will match with library, libraries, librarian, librarianship, etc
• Helpful search hints guide users on how to execute searches and find precise information Tagged lists of search results make it easy to review, e-mail or print obituaries and death notices Added new feature to Obits is the Social Security Index File. This is an ascertainment of the vital mortality status of individuals compiled by National Death Index and the Social Security Administration.

Access World News
Over 1500 domestic and international titles spanning the globe.

• Content: English language articles provide unique perspectives and news from hundreds of international newspapers, wire services, and news agencies - some translated from original native language to English
• Current global topics: Ability to track global issues, news and events, such as governments, companies, organizations and people in the news, international sports and more.
• Extensive coverage: Access to the full electronic edition, as well as English translations of selected top stories from more than 1,600 sources spanning six continents and 50 countries
• Targeted research: NewsBank's colored map interface enables users to quickly and easily target any search to a single title, all titles in a country or a continent, the entire collection, or any customized grouping

For further information, visit NewsBank on the web.