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th Century Early 20 th ry New Reli ligious Movements and Historical Newspapers Melissa Jerome Project Coordinator, FPRDNP Some Digital Newspaper Repositories ProQuest Institutional Affiliation Required Access Newspaper Archive


  1. th Century Early 20 th ry New Reli ligious Movements and Historical Newspapers Melissa Jerome Project Coordinator, FPRDNP

  2. Some Digital Newspaper Repositories • ProQuest • Institutional Affiliation Required • Access Newspaper Archive Academic Library Edition • Institutional Affiliation Required • Readex/Newsbank • Institutional Affiliation Required • LexisNexis • Institutional Affiliation Required, UF discontinuing subscription • Google News • Open Access • Florida Digital Newspaper Library • Open Access • Chronicling America • Open Access

  3. National Dig igital Newspaper Program • “ a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories”

  4. Our Workflow

  5. Selected titles NDNP 2013 1)Ocala Evening Star: 22,800 2)Ocaleean Ensign: 24 3)Punta Gorda Herald: 3,200 4)Palatka News: 342 5)Palatka News & Advertiser: 3,600 6)The Palatka Daily News: 3,600 7)Palatka Daily News: 2,800 8)Pensacola Journal: 15,400 9)Gazeta de Puerto-Rico: 51,400 NDNP 2015 1)Pensacola Journal 2)Daytona Daily News 3)Lakeland Evening Telegram 4)La Democracia 5)La Correspondencia de Puerto Rico

  6. Ingest In All content: 1)Chronicling America (ChronAm) chroniclingamerica.loc.gov 2)Florida & Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project ufdc.ufl.edu/ndnp English content: Spanish content: • • Florida Digital Newspaper Digital Library of the Caribbean Library (FDNL) (dLOC) ufdc.ufl.edu/newspapers dloc.com • Biblioteca Digital Puertorriqueña bibliotecadigital.uprrp.edu/cdm

  7. Content & Functionality Search options • General • Advanced • All newspapers

  8. Advanced Search

  9. Additional Functions Use these options to Use these options to Full screen view! Save pdf change page change issue Zoom in/out by Zoom in and clicking these clip something buttons. Can of interest. also use mouse scroll

  10. Search Term: Catholic Optical Character Search Term: Thailand Recognition • Automated process that converts printed text into computer readable text • Chronicling America is fully searchable • Not perfect technology • Extraneous marks on page • Unusual Fonts • Misreading text or combining words • This means that it isn’t as accurate as a search engine (like Google) From The Monroe City • Be patient with searches and think Democrat (Monroe City, MO) outside of the box. August 22, 1907 Image Retrieved from Chronicling America From The Pensacola Journal August 16, 1908. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

  11. About the Papers

  12. Tips When searching think about… • Vocabulary • Historic spelling and typos • Change in terms • Search parameters • Change scope to get more useful results • Diversify name searches • Affiliated organizations, businesses, and governing bodies From The weekly true Democrat (Tallahassee, Fla.) October 26, 1906. Article retrieved from Chronicling From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, Fla.) November 8,1914. America. Article retrieved from Chronicling America .

  13. Why Language Matters

  14. Historical Tone • Obituary for Swami Vivekananda • Hindu who presented at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago during 1893 • Introduced Hinduism to America • In this article: • Faker spelled “Fakir” • From The Palatka News and Advertiser August “Hindustan” instead of India 14, 1902. Image Retrieved from Chronicling • Argued the “supremacy of the Buddhist America. doctrines” • No author name, so no way to know why someone would write this

  15. Mormons • Founded by Joseph Smith Jr. in New York in 1820s • Controversial for a number of reasons including stance on Polygamy which was renounced in 1890 • Common by early 20 th century, but not normalized in the public eye From Pensacola Journal October 29, 1910. Article retrieved from Chronicling America

  16. From The Pensacola journal January 15, 1905. Article retrieved from Chronicling America From The St. Lucie County tribune October 15, 1909. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

  17. Koreshan Unit ity • Started in New York in the 1870s • Moved to Chicago in 1888 • Moved to Estero, FL in 1894 • Leader Cyrus Teed • Died in 1908 • Believed he was going to return from the dead- didn’t • Last member gave land to Florida in 1961 to form a state park • Koreshan State Historic Site From The Ocala evening star September 12, 1895. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

  18. From The St. Lucie County tribune June 4, 1909. Article retrieved from Chronicling America. From The Palatka news and advertiser September 6, 1912. Article retrieved from Chronicling America. From The Ocala evening star December 26, 1908. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

  19. Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp • Established 1894 North of Deltona, FL by George P. Colby • Medium known for séances • Cassadaga is a U.S. Historic District • “Psychic Capital of the World” • Still an active community From Daytona daily news March 10, 1909. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

  20. From DeLand news April 9, 1909. From Daytona daily news December 15, 1909. Article retrieved from Chronicling Article retrieved from Chronicling America America

  21. How to Cit ite Historical Newspapers • Cite like you would any other newspaper following the guidelines of a particular style (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.) • Including the date you accessed it • Provide the persistent/permalink available via the scissors icon in the page view. • Permalink is for the entire page • From this page you can also download image and print

  22. Resources • The United States Census https://www.census.gov/history/www/genealogy/decennial_census_records/census_records_2.html • Topics in Chronicling America http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/topicsAlpha.html • Bureau of Vital Statistics http://www.floridahealth.gov/certificates/ • Library of Congress’ Genealogy Reading Room http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/ • National Archives http://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy/ • University of Glasgow Historical Thesaurus http://historicalthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/ • The University of Florida Library Catalog http://library.ufl.edu • The USGenWeb Project http://usgenweb.org/ • Local societies and organizations • Florida Historical Society https://myfloridahistory.org/library • Florida Department of State Archives http://dos.myflorida.com/library-archives/ • Florida State Genealogical Society http://www.flsgs.org/

  23. Keep in Touch Links: facebook.com/ufndnp twitter.com/ufndnp ufndnp.wordpress.com pinterest.com/ufndnp ufdc.ufl.edu/ufndnp guides.uflib.ufl.edu/ufndnp Contact us! Project Team: ufndnp@uflib.ufl.edu

  24. Contact Us! Sarah “Moxy” Moczygemba s.moxy@ufl.edu Melissa Jerome mmespino@ufl.edu

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