{"id":977,"date":"2013-03-26T19:18:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T19:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/?p=977"},"modified":"2013-05-07T00:43:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T00:43:37","slug":"somerset-county-library-digitizes-newspapers-other-historical-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/somerset-county-library-digitizes-newspapers-other-historical-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Digitized Somerset County Newspapers a Great Help to Genealogists and Historians"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-980\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3-26-2013-2-35-16-PM1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-980   \" alt=\"The Crisfield Times from Dec, 12, 1941 is an example of a page from the digital collection at the Somerset County Library\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3-26-2013-2-35-16-PM1.jpg?resize=254%2C166&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"254\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3-26-2013-2-35-16-PM1.jpg?w=1175&amp;ssl=1 1175w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3-26-2013-2-35-16-PM1.jpg?resize=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3-26-2013-2-35-16-PM1.jpg?resize=1024%2C671&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3-26-2013-2-35-16-PM1.jpg?resize=800%2C524&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crisfield Times from Dec, 12, 1941 is an example of a page from the digital collection at the Somerset County Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Somerset County Library system has digitized its collection of research materials in order to make the resources more broadly and easily available to researchers.\u00a0 The just released e-products include newspapers from Princess Anne and Crisfield, and records from the county court system.\u00a0 The old, original microfilm was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrowleycompany.com\/news-and-events\/press-2011\/newspaper-microfilm-being-digitized.html\">professionally scanned and software was <\/a>used to allow for easy text-based searching of the collections.\u00a0 This valuable addition of records for researchers joins a growing body of material from the Lower Shore.\u00a0 Here is a list of some of the records groups that are now available online at the Somerset County Library.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.some.lib.md.us\/index.shtml\">Chick here to go the library search page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Crisfield Post, 1935, 1936, and 1955 \u2013 1959<\/p>\n<p>The Crisfield Times, 1907 &#8211; 1984<\/p>\n<p>Maryland and Herald, 1912 \u2013 1984<\/p>\n<p>Somerset Herald 1987 \u2013 2004<\/p>\n<p>Village Herald 1827 \u2013 1840<\/p>\n<p>Administrative Accounts of Somerset County , 1685 \u2013 1772<\/p>\n<p>Judicial Records 1701 \u2013 1792<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Somerset County Library system has digitized its collection of research materials in order to make the resources more broadly and easily available to researchers.\u00a0 The just released e-products include newspapers from Princess Anne and Crisfield, and records from the county court system.\u00a0 The old, original microfilm was\u00a0professionally scanned and software was used to allow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13,18],"tags":[42,40,41,38,36],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives-libraries","category-oral-history","category-research-resources","tag-crisfield","tag-digital-research","tag-historic-newspapers","tag-princess-anne","tag-somerset-county"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Old Digitized Somerset County Newspapers a Great Help to Genealogists and Historians - Mike&#039;s History Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I use this blog as a place to share my experiences while practicing the history craft. 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