Volunteers sought to digitize local newspaper

Terry Lanini, board member of the Sweet Home Genealogical Society, demonstrates how a new scanner can easily capture the large format of The New Era newspaper pages. Photo by Sarah Brown

One of the greatest assets to researchers is access to newspapers dating back decades and even centuries.

The words therein – and even images, photographs and ads – can be a gold mine for those who want to uncover facts, beliefs, styles and all manner of other things that are lost to today’s generations.

This is particularly true for genealogists accustomed to spending hours digging through old papers just to uncover a tidbit of information…

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