North Carolina Newspapers Research Easier with the NC Newspaper Locator
Find NC Newspapers on microfilm in the holdings of the Government and Heritage Library with the North Carolina Newspaper Locator, http://cinch.nclive.org/newspaper.
What newspapers were published in or near Brevard, North Carolina, in 1910? That’s a big question and if you’ve ever had to try to answer it, you know that you are in for a little research. Well, the Government & Heritage Library at the State Library of North Carolina just made that question, and others like it, easier to answer.
The North Carolina Newspaper Locator database, reflecting the microfilm holdings of the Government & Heritage Library, contains listings for nearly 2,000 unique newspaper titles dating from 1751 to today. Free to all and of particular interest to North Carolina genealogists and historians, this database locates newspapers in time and geographic space. Users can search for titles by specific counties or those surrounding them, city, date or date range, or by a newspaper title itself. Once a newspaper has been located, users may request the microfilm reels through their local library’s interlibrary loan service. We lend newspaper microfilm to libraries throughout the continental United States.
The power in the database lies in the ability to expand a county search to neighboring counties. For example, genealogists looking for marriage and death newspaper announcements may know where an ancestor lived, but that doesn’t mean finding the announcements is straightforward. The NC Newspaper Locator searches not only by city, but also automatically by county. And, it gives users the option to expand their search to all surrounding counties. This gives a researcher more time to spend perusing appropriate newspapers for family information.
So what about 1910 Brevard, North Carolina, newspapers? A quick search of the NC Newspaper Locator finds that the Sylvan Valley News was published in Brevard, in Transylvania county, from 1900 to 1916. Even better, at least five other newspapers were published in the North Carolina counties surrounding Transylvania in that same year (Asheville Gazette-News, French Broad Hustler, Waynesville Courier, Western Carolina Enterprise, and Western North Carolina Times).
LINK: http://cinch.nclive.org/newspaper/
Are you interested in tracking the growth of the economy in the state of North Carolina? One way to gauge the economy is to examine the amount of people unemployed in the state. The Active Job Applicants Registered for Work with ESC Offices, published monthly, provides unemployment numbers by county of residence. Other information that can be found in charts include unemployment numbers based on sex and the length of unemployment. Data is collected from persons who have completed job applications with Employment Security Commission offices. While this is a good tool it is important to note that not all unemployed people register with the ESC.
