3.4 Billion Records Extracted From Historical Newspapers Were Added to MyHeritage
The publication of four huge new collections of names and stories on MyHeritage, extracted from newspaper pages on OldNews.com. The collections contain 658 million records from Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi; 998 million records from Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Nebraska; 1 billion records from Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania; and 651 million records from North Carolina, South Carolina, and District of Columbia.
The new collections are searchable on MyHeritage, with the full images of the newspaper pages available on OldNews.com via direct links from MyHeritage.
But wait, there’s more!
This treasure trove of genealogical information is just the beginning: these are the first four of 16 similar collections that we are planning to publish in December 2024. The full suite of collections, covering the entire United States and several additional countries, will collectively add more than 10 billion records to MyHeritage’s historical database, expanding it by 50%!
As part of this update, we’re also thrilled to share that OldNews.com now hosts more than 300 million newspaper pages!
Search the new collections now:
Search Names & Stories in Newspapers from Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi
Search Names & Stories in Newspapers from Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Nebraska
Search Names & Stories in Newspapers from North Carolina, South Carolina, and District of Columbia
But wait, there’s even more!
Now I don’t normally go into such detail with these announcements, but I wanted to explain that the structured records in the new collections were extracted from nearly 200 million English newspaper pages using cutting-edge AI technology developed by the MyHeritage team.
The new collections allow MyHeritage users to uncover rich information about their ancestors that was previously out of reach. This is because they are indexed and structured, so they can be searched using imprecise names, nicknames and synonyms; whereas searching in newspapers that are not indexed is typically done using keywords and requires the user to write the name exactly as it appears in the newspaper.
This AI is designed to extract not just names from the newspaper articles but also the relatives of every person mentioned, as well as additional fields such as occupations, residences, travel from one location to another, and more.
Last but not least, every record includes a useful summary of the article, generated automatically by AI.
This AI technology is unrivaled by any other genealogy company, as MyHeritage continues to lead the pack in utilizing AI to advance genealogy. We hope that these collections lead to incredible discoveries for our users, allowing them to find the stories that shaped their family’s history.