Reminder: if you take advantage of a free access weekend, save copies locally so you'll have them after the free access is over. Lately I've been copying and correcting the OCR and saving the articles in Notes. /1 https://twitter.com/_newspapers/status/1359955498783637508

To sort your Ancestry hints, go to All Hints for your tree. In the URL after your tree number, you'll see a string hints?hf=allhints

Replace this with the database you want to filter for like this (see following tweets). /2

/3 For Ancestry's index to obituaries on Newspapers-dot-com, use this string (hints will be sorted by last name).

hints?hf=record&hs=last&hdbid=61843

/4 For Ancestry's index to marriages on Newspapers-dot-com, use this string:

hints?hf=record&hs=last&hdbid=62116

/5 The numbers are the database IDs. You can find those for almost any database by going to to the search page for the database in the Card Catalog(ue).

/6 Non-USA friends take note: there are some World newspapers on Newspapers-dot-com: filter for Canada, England, Australia, Scotland, Wales, etc. https://www.newspapers.com/papers/# 

7/ Have fun! Don't just chase hints, take some time to read the sports news, look at advertisements, do social history research, etc. #newspapers #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #genealogy