Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Challenge #5 - Newspapers Online - Part One

When I searched for an article about the Reagan Inauguration in January 1981 using the lead paragraph trick, and I put it in quotes I only got one result. When I removed the quotes and searched again I had 87 posts with 62 from the Washington Post.

I searched in America's Newspapers in all text under my father's name and Oklahoma. I discovered that he was in an automobile accident in December 1982 that I never knew about before. When I limited the search to the lead paragraph I had no results.

I also searched for an obituary using Newsbank. I searched first under the name and 2009 in American Obituaries and found it. I then searched in America's Newspapers in the Bucks County Courier Times and also found the obituary; however, I had to go through the entire obituary column for the day to find the correct one. When I searched for my father's obituary in American Obituaries I did not find it.



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