Our fourth GENIE is LARRY OLSON
NEWSPAPERS.COM
The Newspapers.com
website is a subscription service containing digital images of over 3600 papers
published in seven English-speaking countries from 1700 to date (US, Canada,
England, Ireland and Northern Ireland, Australia, and Panama). The holdings include images of 14 papers in
Chicago alone.
Larry will
demonstrate navigating the site, how to perform searches, and how to create,
download, and share clippings via social media and/or Ancestry.
Larry Olson is a Minnesota native
who lived on both coasts before settling in Chicagoland thirty years ago. He began his research in the 1970s, when his
grandmother told him he was related to March King John Philip Sousa through
Sousa’s German mother. Larry has never
proven that legend, but he has discovered many other interesting facts, and
become the historian for his and his wife’s families. He hopes his immediate family will someday
appreciate what he accomplished while neglecting them for dead relatives.
