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Missing newspapers - Does Ancestry remove them?

Missing newspapers - Does Ancestry remove them?

Posted: 3 May 2006 12:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
Last year I saved quite a few pages from newspapers, and now I find they are suddenly gone. To site just one example, Waukesha Daily Freeman, October 16, 1922 or 1923 (there's a smudge on the scan) is no longer online.

I thought perhaps this problem with the index and failed searches was to blame, but then I looked through the list of years avaiable for the paper and they are all gone!!

Does Ancestry remove data -- and perhaps then add it back at a later date with a claim that they've added to the database??? I am highly suspicious with what I am beginning to believe is a shady company...

Re: Missing newspapers - Does Ancestry remove them?

Pat Peoples (View posts)
Posted: 4 May 2006 12:30PM GMT
Classification: Query
Wow -- that's really discouraging. I intend to go back and look at some of my old newspaper copies to see if the papers are still there. When I last looked, they were -- I could find them by browsing the particular paper for a given date. Sure hope what you suspect is not true!

Pat

Re: Missing newspapers - Does Ancestry remove them?

Posted: 4 May 2006 2:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
There are MANY newspapers that are now missing. It's not clear if just the links are gone, or of the papers have been removed. Either way, it's pretty outrageous for Ancestry not to alert its customers that things they have used in the past (and paid for!) are no longer available.

Head to Newspaperarchive.com
They have all the papers and more for a mere $30 a year.

Re: Missing newspapers - Does Ancestry remove them?

Christine Pearce (View posts)
Posted: 4 May 2006 5:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
So far, I cannot locate 30 papers I previously found. I'm still trying to find them all, which doesn't help matters if the search facility is broken! In the future, I guess I have to save every single one - and buy a bigger hard disk! The whole process is tedious, since you have to save the entire page, and then, when you want to see the information later, you have to read the entire thing to find the little bit that's of interest!

People at Ancestry - we would be highly interested to receive a response from you on this subject. Surely you don't want customers (potential and curent) to think and say bad things about the company. What say you?

Re: Missing newspapers - Does Ancestry remove them?

Posted: 4 May 2006 6:22PM GMT
Classification: Query
Believe me, Ancestry does not care. Nor do they have any interest in responding to the issue.

With Newspaperarchive.com, you view each paper via Acrobat Adobe, and can simply cut and paste the image of your article right into an email or Word doc. They have far more newspapers than Ancestry. The cutting and pasting is very handy - very simple. The subscription is Very inexpensive. And they even respond when there is a technical glitch. What a concept!

I am one of Ancestry's "pioneer" subscribers - and I cannot tell you how discouraged I am by what has happened to this company.

Re: Missing newspapers - Does Ancestry remove them?

Christine Pearce (View posts)
Posted: 5 May 2006 1:24PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks, Laura - I'll give Newspaperarchive a go.

Re: Missing newspapers - Does Ancestry remove them?

Posted: 15 May 2006 1:16AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Smyer, Hanna, Tweed, Lewis, Owens, Alford
I have also found missing papers. I had several pages from the Deming (NM) Headlight saved and they are now missing. What is odd is that the current years on Ancestry match Newspaperarchive exactly. In the past someone from Ancestry was very helpful in getting additional years added but it looks like those days are gone.

Re: Missing newspapers - Does Ancestry remove them?

Posted: 27 Dec 2008 4:52PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks for this info...even though I can't afford it, I bet there's many who can.
There's issues missing at Ancestry from the North Adams Transcript which contain info on my Pratt family who lived & died & are buried there...
Kind of ticks me off that Ancestry doesn't have all the issues available....or maybe they used to given what I've read in this discussion.

Re: Missing newspapers - Does Ancestry remove them?

Posted: 27 May 2009 6:12AM GMT
Classification: Query
The Newspaperarchive.com subscription is now $9.99 per month if paid annually --- $17.99 per month if paid one month at a time.

Re: Missing newspapers - Does Ancestry remove them?

Posted: 17 Sep 2012 4:55PM GMT
Classification: Query
I'm missing the Johnstown, PA Democrat, which is bad for me because so many of my family are from there. What I started doing with newspapers is from the viewing pane is Save this image> Open> and crop the article out of the whole sheet using MS Photo Viewer. Then I save it as a photo and when I load it up to the person, I add the citation information. Takes me a bit longer, and I had to buy a couple memory sticks, but now the information is there for anyone.

I had almost 200 newspaper records attached to one person (politician) and now they are all gone.
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