Newspapers.com has a barely noticeable drop-down menu that can make searching for ancestors a lot easier. At least, I’d never seen it until a couple of days ago.
Despite having had a subscription to the website for almost a year, I was unaware of the Sort feature in the upper-right corner that appears after I enter my keywords. I learned about it in the October 11 post on Fishwrap, the Newspapers.com blog.
In the Sort drop-down menu, you can select best match, newest paper date first, oldest paper date first, and date added. The default is best match.
Newspapers.com is a subscription-based website, launched by Ancestry in 2012.
Can the Newspapers.com content be accessed through the Library Edition of Ancestry?
I don’t believe so. What you can do, however, is search Ancestry for the index to newspaper obituaries. You will need a subscription to Newspapers.com to see the obit, but you will see the date of death, date of publication, newspaper name and location, and, if mentioned in the obit, name of spouse, children, parents, and siblings. That’s a pretty good start. Don’t be misled, however, by the publication place. I published my father’s obit in the newspaper where he was born and in another newspaper where he died. https://www.ancestry.ca/search/collections/newspaperobits/
Gail, I have had a subscription to Newspapers.com for several years and was not aware of this feature. Thank you for pointing this out.