We all love scavenger hunts, hunting for the clues and discovering new things. This scavenger hunt will occur during the month of June and will include daily prizes for a lucky winner who gets all the answers correct in the allotted time.
The clues will be posted each morning on the Indian River Genealogy Conference Facebook page (www.facebook.com/IRGConf), Friends of Vero Beach Family History Center Facebook group (www.facebook.com/159642411143167) and the genealogy blog at https://milesgenealogy.blogspot.com/.
The tasks will introduce you to a variety of online sources and help you learn new research sites and how to use them effectively to discover your ancestors. Those who get the answers correct will be entered into the daily drawing for prizes.
Join in the fun, discover new sites, and learn how to research on sites that you may have never used before.
Answers will be submitted using a Google Form found at https://forms.gle/aNgZ8bbHrYdngwEY9.
Today’s Challenge
We are now on Day #14. How many of you have been with us for the entire 2 weeks? Today’s challenge is to research international newspapers. My favorite site to find online newspaper collections is Wikipedia’s List of Online Newspaper Archives (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives).
Questions
- Using Wikipedia’s List of Online Newspaper Archives, find the newspaper archives for Quebec. How many newspaper titles are listed for the Canadiana Discovery Portal?
- Check out the newspapers for Ohio. What range of years is available for the Minster Post?
- Find the newspaper titled “Manx Cat”. What region was this paper published?
- Which Irish newspaper was published from 1905-1909?
- How many newspapers are included in the Cuba collection?
Bonus Points (Optional)
- Find the National Library of Australia Collection. Search the collection to find out what Mr. Bielefeld did with papier mache.
Hint
This one is pretty easy but make sure you are looking in the right countries for the newspapers.
Action
Answers will be submitted using a Google Form (https://forms.gle/aNgZ8bbHrYdngwEY9). All answers received before 8:00 pm EST on June 14 will be considered for today’s prize which is a 1-year World Explorer Subscription to Ancestry.
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