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NewspaperArchive to be depublished at MyHeritage

Posted: 17 Jun 2016 17:35
by jmurphy
James Tanner reports at his blog Genealogy's Star that MyHeritage posted a notice about NewspaperArchive content at MyHeritage:

http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2016 ... vecom.html
NewspaperARCHIVE.com Collection Notice
We wanted to give our users a heads up that MyHeritage's license of the newspaper content from NewspaperARCHIVE.com is about to expire next week. This means that on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, the collection will be de-published (withdrawn) from MyHeritage. In addition, pending Record Matches from this collection will be removed. Confirmed Record Matches that were saved to family trees will remain in place.

MyHeritage is currently in negotiations with NewspaperARCHIVE.com to enter into a new license in order to keep this collection on MyHeritage. If these efforts are successful and the content is relicensed, then it will be reloaded onto MyHeritage and the Record Matches will return, and all links to newspaper records that were saved into family trees will continue to work. This will work well even if the newspaper content will be de-published for a while, and then return.

We advise users who have pending Record Matches from this collection, to view them before Tuesday, and to confirm as many as of them as possible and extract their value into their family trees.

This does not affect other newspaper collections on MyHeritage such as Trove from Australia and Jewish Chronicle from the UK.

Thanks,
The MyHeritage Team
You can read the original notice on the MyHeritage blog:
http://blog.myheritage.com/2016/06/news ... on-notice/

I suspect that NewspaperArchive also has license agreements with Ancestry/Newspapers-dot-com and FindMyPast -- the US Newspaper titles I see on those sites seem to have a great deal of overlap.

So if you have pending NewspaperArchive matches via FH and you haven't analysed them yet, they will go away unless MyHeritage and NewspaperArchive can get a deal worked out.