My OldNews Success Story – Thanks to MyHeritage!

My OldNews Success Story: I’ve been tinkering around with the new historical website OldNews™ by MyHeritage and right off the bat, with my first search I scored GOLD!

I have been writing an ancestor biographical sketch for my Grandfather Abraham MacEntee (1913-1977) who was the father of my father Richard MacEntee (1939-2019). For research purposes I wanted to know more about where he lived during certain periods of his life.

Searching for “Elmer MacEntee” in New York – Elmer A. MacEntee was the father of Abraham MacEntee, I located a birth announcement for my great-uncle John Elmer Craig MacEntee, born 13 November 1937 at Walkill, New York.

What really caught my attention? The fact that my grandparents lived on what was called the “Borden Home Farm.”

So, of course, in order to have a complete history of where Abraham MacEntee lived, I next did a search of the Borden Home Farm. Despite having grown up in the Orange and Ulster County areas of New York, I never heard of the place. Was it a working farm? Was it perhaps similar to a poor house for those who could not take care of themselves and their family?

And I did find out the amazing history of the Borden Home Farm which was started by Gail Borden, who invented condensed milk in 1853.

The history of the Borden Home Farm was a feature of The Daily Saratogian newspaper, located in Saratoga Springs, New York … a good 120 miles north of Walkill.

I can’t wait to do more research on OldNews™ since it is easy to use and easy to save newspaper pages as part of my genealogy records collection.

My OldNews Success Story – MyHeritage launches new historical newspaper site!

OldNews.com brings you:

• Access millions of historical newspaper pages

• A wide array of titles, from international newspapers to small-town gazettes

• Historical newspapers from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Netherlands and many more countries

• Extensive coverage of the 1800s and 1900s, from major world events to local news

• Articles that were extracted and enhanced using AI technology

• Millions of newspaper pages are added each month

Are you ready to journey into the past?

My OldNews Success Story: How to use OldNews.com

To get started, visit OldNews.com. If you already have a MyHeritage account, click “Log in” on the top right of the page and use the same credentials you use to log in to MyHeritage. If you don’t have an account yet, no worries! You can search OldNews.com anonymously, and you can create an account later to view the newspapers you’ve found.

At the heart of OldNews.com is an easy-to-use search engine that enables anyone to quickly and effortlessly find information on a person, topic, or event. Enter the search terms in the form on the website’s home page and click the green “Search” button. Entering the year of publication is optional. If you enter it, the search will match the year exactly, but once you type in a year you can click on the year field and broaden the year range.

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