Online Newspapers: How Your Family Stories Went Viral
October 31 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
“Online Newspapers: How Your Family Stories Went Viral” with Janeen Bjork
Friday, October 31, 2025, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Sponsored by Connecticut Ancestry Society at the New England Regional Genealogical Conference 2025 in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Newspapers were the social media of your ancestors. Editors read each others’ newspapers and reprinted stories. The AP and newspaper unions also reprinted news. Learn best practices to find the items you missed due to misspellings, OCR (optical character recognition) and bad microfilms. See the interfaces of fee and free online resources with an emphasis on New England.
Television researcher Janeen Bjork applied the detective, analytic and presentation skills she garnered in a 30-year career to her family tree and to the trees of friends, students and clients. She is an author, and a Genealogy speaker and teacher whose specialties include newspapers, creating sharable family history, and DNA.