Newspapers record the day-to-day or even week-to-week happenings of local community events. Newspapers are intended for general readers, usually serve a geographic region, and may also be oriented toward a particular ethnic, cultural, social, or political group. They supply all sorts of clues about vital statistics (birth, marriage, and death announcements), obituaries, local news, biographical sketches, legal notices, immigration, migration, and shipping information and other historical items that place our ancestors in the context of the society in which they lived. Newspapers can be used to find valuable genealogical information about historical events in the lives of our ancestors. Check the local library or historical society in the area in which your ancestors lived for more information about other available newspapers. The date range represented in this database is not necessarily the complete published set available. Over time, the name of a newspaper may have changed and the time span it covered may not always be consistent. The images for this newspaper can be browsed sequentially, or via links to specific images, which may be obtained through the search results. The accuracy of the index varies according to the quality of the original images.

The newspapers can be browsed or searched using a computer-generated index. This database is a fully searchable text version of the newspaper for the following years: 1947-50. Portland Sunday Telegram And Sunday Press Herald newspaper was located in Portland, Maine.

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