American Consolidated Media owned more than 100 newspapers in 18 distinct regions of the United States. In 2007, it was sold to American Consolidated Media. The newspaper was owned and published by Brown Publishing Company, which publishes more than fifteen daily newspapers and over sixty weekly newspapers. It has a daily circulation of about 10,000 and a weekly circulation of about 12,000 Sunday. The Athens Messenger was established in 1848, and became a daily publication in 1904. Hansen edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking (Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1997).The Athens Messenger is a daily newspaper published in Athens, Ohio, United States, serving Athens and the surrounding communities of Athens County. Taken from "Chapter 12: Research in Newspapers," The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy by James L. Newspapers are wonderful sources and should not be missed! In contrast, small country or community newspapers were concerned with local people and their immediate surroundings and are often rich in genealogical and historical information. The Athens Messenger is a multi-media news organization and commercial printing facility that serves Athens County, Ohio and parts of the surrounding seven. While newspapers created in large cities were most often concerned with international, national, and state affairs they can contain valuable information about local individuals and should not be passed over. These types of details are not likely to appear on a marriage record at the local courthouse. For example, a newspaper account of a marriage might indicate that it took place at the home of the bride's parents, perhaps even naming them it might list the occupation of the groom, or indicate that the ceremony was part of a double wedding in which the bride's sister was also married. Additionally, because newspapers are unofficial sources, even when they merely supplement the public records, they can provide much incidental information that is simply not recorded anywhere else. Newspapers are not restricted to or bound by the regulations or forms used by more "official" sources. For example, an obituary may have appeared in a newspaper even when civil death records did not exist. Swanton Enterprise, The Advertiser-Tribune, The Athens Messenger, The Athens NEWS, The Beaver Creek News-Courant, The Blade, The Community Common. Newspapers can also provide at least a partial substitute for nonexistent civil records. They act almost as a diary for events that took place in a certain locality.īecause newspapers are generally geographic in scope they are not limited to governmental jurisdictions therefore, they can include such things as the report of a wedding of local citizens, even when it occurred in a neighboring county or even another state. Newspapers record the day-to-day or even week-to-week happenings of local community events. This database is a fully searchable text version of the newspaper for the following years. 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. The Athens Messenger newspaper was located in Athens, Ohio. 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. The Athens Messenger newspaper was located in Athens, Ohio.
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