2012 Highlights

Below are highlights from the past year of posts, focusing on those posts I feel may be of the most interest to those who aren't related to me.

• The Sunken Gardens: From 1904 to Today 

A look at a 1904 World's Fair exhibit, and what survives 

• Finding My Past Part I: England and Wales Marriage Records
• Finding My Past Part II: Census Records
• Finding My Past Part III: Hampshire Baptisms

A 3-part exploration of the databases and records at FindMyPast

• Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
• Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Part II

A 2-part exploration of Yad Vashem's database of Holocaust victims 

• Ancestry's New DNA Test: A Jewish Perspective

My experience with Ancestry's new DNA test, and some perceived drawbacks for those of Eastern European Jewish Descent

• Inaccuracies in Ancestry's SSDI Database

An examination of some issues with the way Ancestry.com handles the city and county of last residence in their SSDI database

• Show Me the Newspapers

A comparison of the holdings at four different online archives of digitized newspapers - with a focus on Missouri newspapers.

• Black Swan Fallacy

A look at how a common logical fallacy can trip the genealogy researcher.  (I originally posted this entry back in 2009, but I reposted it with some modifications.)

I married the woman of my dreams in April, and we went on a honeymoon in June.
Several posts related to these events might be of interest to others.

• Wedding Traditions: Silver Sixpences

 Research on the origins of the phrase: "Something Old, Something New..."

• Honeymoon: Etymology

Research on the etymology of the word, 'Honeymoon.'

• Terezin: Not Your Usual Honeymoon Destination

My wife and I visited Prague on our honeymoon, and decided to make a trip to the nearby former concentration camp.

New Year's Resolutions

Below are my New Year's Resolutions from December of 1975.  

As is my habit, I have protected the names of the living, in this case both of my siblings, to whom apparently I must have believed I wasn't being good enough. (The spelling errors are embarrassing, but I was only one month shy of 7.)

I suspect I was also trying to cure myself of calling my mother, 'Mommy,' as I can't think of anything else I would have called her at that age.

In first grade I was participating in an annual reading challenge at my school. I happened to know the neighbor across the street held the all-time record, and I apparently initially resolved to break that record. I was either told it was an inappropriate resolution, or decided it was on my own. (I did break the record. The school closed five years later with my record unbroken. 1509.)

My kind and loving wife tells me there is still one of these I need work on. I will let everyone guess. She tells me also that my handwriting was better back then.

I'm still working on my 2013 Resolutions

Fifteen Poems from the Archives

I am an aficionado of poetry. I enjoy reading, writing, and performing  the art. In the past six years I have devoted several blog posts to poetry. Below are fifteen of these. Click on the 'Poetry' label at the bottom of the post to find more.

Poems Written by Me

1. Genealogy Research
2. Where I'm From
3. A Toast to the First and the Fourth of July
4. E Pluribus Unum; Cognatus, Ergo Sum
5. Divergent, Yet Intersecting
6. Ode to a Microspatula
7. Genealogy Limericks 

Poems Written by Kin

1. Mother - by Willa Van Every
2. Mother - by Ida Green 

Poems Written by Others

1. Our Mother Was the Pussy-Cat - by Edward Lear (an unfinished sequel to The Owl and the Pussy-Cat)
2. On Going Home For Christmas - by Edgar Guest
3. To a Lady - by Victor Hugo (Translation by Thomas Hardy)
4. On the Burial of his Brother - by Caius Valerius Catullus (Translation by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley)
5. The Mounds of Cahokia - by Micah P. Flint
6. The Jewish Cemetery at Newport - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Weekly Genealogy Picks: Dec 16-19

Highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heritage, and Technology.

Note: I am posting this several days early. Our Weekly Picks will be taking a holiday, and will return Sunday, January 6th.

• Evidentia, a new genealogical software program was released this week. This one isn't like the others, as its focus is on evidence, not people. For the past several weeks there has been a group of beta-testers, and some of them are providing reviews. Similarly, since the application is now released to the public, some non-beta-testers are providing reviews, as well.
  
  Reviews I've seen:
• Jenny Lanctot at Are My Roots Showing?
• Shannon Bennett at Trials and Tribulations of a Self-Taught Family Historian
• Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings

I did participate in the beta-testing period, but unfortunately, haven't had a great amount of time to test it out, and I don't have the time to write up a full review. However, I liked what I have seen. I feel it would be a great secondary software program for me to focus on gathering and visualizing the evidence for selected brick walls. It would also be useful for creating a database for my family records, and transcriptions. Currently it doesn't allow for attaching files or transcriptions, but I have been told by the creator that that is planned for a future update.

It will not work as a primary genealogy database for me, and I don't believe it is the intent of the creator that it should. Some (perhaps many) will find its inability to import or export into the standard GEDCOM format a deal-breaker. However, GEDCOM doesn't include a standardized method for handling citations. Evidentia is built around evidence and citations. Oil and Water don't mix. Since those with large databases will not want to manually copy information to a new database, those who use Evidentia will likely use it for select individuals. 

There are both PC and Mac verstions, however, if you are a Mac user you need to have the 10.7 OS (Lion) or above. There are screenshots, tutorials, and sample reports on the software site.

• RootsMagic released an iOS app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Randy Seaver at GeneaMusings has taken a first look at the app, as well as a second. Tamura Jones at Modern Software Experience also has given it a review. I'm unable to test it out, as while I have both an iPhone, and an iPod, it's a secondary app that is meant to accompany their full software package. It can't stand alone, and their full software is PC only.

• Instagram released new Terms of Service this week that seemed to permit the company to sell user photos to advertisers without paying the user anything. [Source: Good Morning Silicon Valley] Instagram has responded, and said the terms were misunderstood. They have assured their users they will clarify their terms.
  
  However, as GMSV pointed out, in an era of 'free software' you get what you pay for. It is always better to be the purchaser of a commodity, than the commodity that is being purchased. Judy G. Russell at The Legal Genealogist provides a good summary of the events.

• Good Morning Silicon Valley also predicts the next Social Networking outrage: Auto-Playing video advertisments on Facebook. Rumored to be coming by April 2013 on both desktop and mobile versions of Facebook.

• Michael Hait, at Planting the Seeds, defines for the genealogist, The most important thing you can ever prove.  I agree with him on the importance, and difficulty at times, proving this.

• Philip Moeller at US News and World Report discusses how Digital Stories Preserve and Share Memories. His article includes a review of the StoryPress website and apps.

• In Before You Were Born: We Were Digitizing Texts, Leslie Johnston at The Signal provides an historical look at digitized text. (However, the earliest date provided was two years after I was born.)

• Stuart Rockoff at MyJewishLearning shares some historical resources for small communities in the Southern US.

• In Why We Don't Write, and How We Can, Harold Henderson at Archives challenges us to become better buffalo hunters.

Upcoming holidays - religious and secular, national and international - for the next three weeks

Three Week Calendar

• Dec 20 - International Human Solidarity Day
• Dec 21 - Pancha Ganapti - Dec 21-25 (Hindu)
• Dec 21 - Forefathers' Day (Plymouth, MA)
• Dec 21 - Yule - Northern Hemisphere / Litha - Southern Hemisphere (Pagan)
• Dec 24 - Christmas Eve (Christian)
• Dec 25 - Christmas (Christian)
• Dec 26 - Kwanzaa - Dec 26-Jan 1
• Dec 26 - Boxing Day
• Dec 26 - Zarathosht Diso (Zoroastrian)
• Dec 28 - Holy Innocents (Christian)
• Dec 30 - Freedom Day (Church of Scientology)
• Dec 30 - Feast of the Holy Family (Christian)
• Dec 31 - New Year's Eve
• Jan 1 - New Year's Day
• Jan 1 - Gantan-sai (Shinto) 
• Jan 1 - Global Family Day
• Jan 1 - Public Domain Day
• Jan 5 - Twelfth Night (Christian)
• Jan 5 - Guru Gobindh Singh birthday (Sikh)
• Jan 6 - Epiphany (Christian)
• Jan 6 - Feast of the Theophany (Orthodox Christian) 
• Jan 7 - Nativity of Christ (Orthodox Christian)
• Jan 7 - The Festival of Seven Herbs (Japan)
• Jan 13 - Maghi (Sikh)

Amanuensis Monday: A Deed for a Church (1680)

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.

I began this project back on February 16, 2009.  Since I began, many others have joined in on the meme. I am thrilled that this meme I started has inspired so many to transcribe their family history documents. Why do we transcribe? I provide my three reasons in the linked post. You may find others.

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This week I am sharing a passage from The Annals of Albany, by Joel Munsell. It includes a transcription of the deed for a Lutheran church in Albany from the 17th century, and mentions my 8th great grandfather, Myndert Frederickse (son of Frederick Van Iveren), as well as Myndert's brother, Carsten. The children of Myndert and Carsten would, by and large, return to the Van Iveren surname, which later changed to Van Every.

The deed was originally in Dutch, though the author provides a translation. I include both below.

Weekly Genealogy Picks: Dec 9 to Dec 15

Highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heritage, and Technology.

• Bill LeFurgy at The Signal promotes Raising Digital Preservation Awareness to Combat Placency and Fear

• In The Bloggers' Best Selections Diane Boumenot at One Rhode Island Family solicited submissions of 'favorite' posts from other genealogy bloggers.

• The controversial Martin Luther King Jr. memorial transcription, which misquoted the Civil Rights leader, will be removed instead of corrected. (Source: CNN)

• Tamura Jones at The Modern Software Experience takes a look at the Genealogy Communities that have been created on the Google+ network in the past week since Google introduced the Community feature.

• In a recent patent filing, "Apple outlined a system that analyzes the characteristics of an image's subject and uses the data to create a 'faceprint,' which can then be matched with other photos to determine a person's identity." [Source: Apple Insider]

• In Why can't the media get the facts straight in Connecticut, Charles Apple,  at The Visual Side of Journalism discusses the issues with 'breaking news reporting' and how reporters handle constantly changing facts. I thought I noticed some parallels in his description of news research to that of genealogy research. We too can make a mistake when we try to reach a conclusion before our research is complete.

Other Weekly Lists

• Beth's Genealogy News Corral at Genealogy Insider 
• Ruth Blair's Ruth's Recommendations at The Passionate Genealogist 
• Julie Cahill Tarr's Friday Finds at GenBlog 
• Dan Curtis's Monday's Link Roundup at Professional Personal Historian 
• Jana Last's Fab Finds at Jana's Genealogy and Family History 
• Lynn Palermo's Monday Morning Mentions at The Armchair Genealogist 
• Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs at Genea-Musings 

Upcoming holidays - religious and secular, national and international - for the next two weeks

Two Week Calendar

• Dec 16 - Las Posadas/Posadas Navidenas - Dec 16 (evening) to Dec 24 (evening) (Christian - Spanish)
• Dec 17 - Saturnalia (Roman)
• Dec 17 - Wright Brothers Day (US)
• Dec 18 - International Migrants Day
• Dec 20 - International Human Solidarity Day
• Dec 21 - Pancha Ganapti - Dec 21-25 (Hindu)
• Dec 21 - Forefathers' Day (Plymouth, MA)
• Dec 21 - Yule - Northern Hemisphere / Litha - Southern Hemisphere (Pagan)
• Dec 24 - Christmas Eve (Christian)
• Dec 25 - Christmas (Christian)
• Dec 26 - Kwanzaa - Dec 26-Jan 1
• Dec 26 - Boxing Day
• Dec 26 - Zarathosht Diso (Zoroastrian)
• Dec 28 - Holy Innocents (Christian)
• Dec 30 - Freedom Day (Church of Scientology)
• Dec 30 - Feast of the Holy Family (Christian)
• Dec 31 - New Years Eve

Amanuensis Monday: Obituary for Louis Pleas Gober

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.

I began this project back on February 16, 2009.  Since I began, many others have joined in on the meme. I am thrilled that this meme I started has inspired so many to transcribe their family history documents. Why do we transcribe? I provide my three reasons in the linked post. You may find others.

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This week I am sharing the obituary for my wife's 2nd great grandfather, Louis Pleas Gober. It appeared in the November 4, 1948 Sikeston Herald, and I retrieved the image from Ancestry.com.

Weekly Genealogy Picks: December 2-8

Highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heritage, and Technology.

• Michael J Leclerc at Mocavo Blog asks if it is Curtains for Cursive, as many schools across the county are ceasing instruction in script.

• Michele Simmons Lewis at Ancestoring discusses graphology, or the analysis of handwriting to uncover personality traits. 

• Barry Wheeler at Digital Preservation looks at the process of scanning documents, and addresses the question: What Resolution Should I Use?

• Jen Hodnett at the Ancestry Blog explains how to merge duplicate records in their online family trees.

• Daniel Hubbard at Personal Past Mediations describes what he calls, Pyrrhic Research, and why it is important to avoid it, whether you are researching Homer's Iliad, or your family's oral history.

Other Weekly Lists

• Beth's Genealogy News Corral at Genealogy Insider
• Julie Cahill Tarr's Friday Finds at GenBlog 
• Dan Curtis's Monday's Link Roundup at Professional Personal Historian 
• Jana Last's Fab Finds at Jana's Genealogy and Family History 
• Michael J. LeClerc's From the Blogs at Mocavo Blog
• Lynn Palermo's Monday Morning Mentions at The Armchair Genealogist 
• Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs at Genea-Musings 

Upcoming holidays - religious and secular, national and international - for the next two weeks

Two Week Calendar

• Dec 9 - International Anti-Corruption Day
• Dec 10 - Human Rights Day
• Dec 10 - Alfred Nobel Day
• Dec 15 - Bill of Rights Day (US)
• Dec 15 - Esperanto Day
• Dec 16 - Las Posadas/Posadas Navidenas - Dec 16 (evening) to Dec 24 (evening) (Christian - Spanish)
• Dec 17 - Saturnalia (Roman)
• Dec 17 - Wright Brothers Day (US)
• Dec 18 - International Migrants Day
• Dec 20 - International Human Solidarity Day
• Dec 21 - Pancha Ganapti - Dec 21-25 (Hindu)
• Dec 21 - Forefathers' Day (Plymouth, MA)
• Dec 21 - Yule - Northern Hemisphere / Litha - Southern Hemisphere (Pagan)

Amanuensis Monday: A second obituary for Willa Van Every

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.

I began this project back on February 16, 2009.  Since I began, many others have joined in on the meme. I am thrilled that this meme I started has inspired so many to transcribe their family history documents. Why do we transcribe? I provide my three reasons in the linked post. You may find others.

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Back in October I shared an obituary I found in the Lockhart Post Register for my maternal grandmother's sister, Willa (Van Every) Roberts. It had been written by another sister of my maternal grandmother, Minnie (Van Every) Benold, and had appeared on July 20, 1916, 11 days after the death.

Since then I discovered another obituary mixed in with some other newspaper clippings my grandmother preserved.  I don't know what newspaper it appeared in, but I believe it was written by someone else, as there are differences in style. It also fills in a few additional details. The obituary I shared back in October is shown below on the right, though I do not re-transcribe it.

Weekly Genealogy Picks: Nov 25-Dec 1

Highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heritage, and Technology.

The topic around the genealogical water-cooler at the end of this week was Ancestry.com's announcement of the creation of a new website: Newspapers.com (GeneaPress)

• Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings took a First Look at Newspapers.com
• As did Pat Richley-Erickson at Dear Myrtle also took A First Look.
• Judy G. Russell at The Legal Genealogist compared the legal terms of service for the various newspaper archival sites.

On other topics:

• Michael John Neill at RootDig illustrates the occasional importance of color records.

• Julie Cahill Tarr at GenBlog takes a risk by suggesting Some People Just Aren't Cut Out for Genealogy Research.

• Leslie Johnston at Digital Preservation shares a story of When Data Loss is Personal.

• James Tanner at Genealogy's Star explains that sometimes Focusing on a Problem, is the Problem.

• Daniel Hubbard at Personal Past Meditations in Up Close and Personal outlines why he prefers to think about the proximity of a  record instead of the traditional terms of primary, secondary, original and derivative.

• Jill Hurst-Wahl at Digitization 101 considers The Importance of Physical Space, and how the layout of a library is important.

• Denise Grollmas at TabletMag writes about a Jewish Revival in Poland, where the grandchildren of those who hid their religion, are rediscovering, and embracing, their roots.

Other Weekly Lists

• Beth's Genealogy News Corral at Genealogy Insider
• Julie Cahill Tarr's Friday Finds at GenBlog 
• Jana Last's Fab Finds at Jana's Genealogy and Family History 
• Michael J. LeClerc's From the Blogs at Mocavo Blog
• Lynn Palermo's Monday Morning Mentions at The Armchair Genealogist 
• Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs at Genea-Musings 

Upcoming holidays - religious and secular, national and international - for the next two weeks

Two Week Calendar

• Dec 2 - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
• Dec 2 - Advent - First Sunday (Christian)
• Dec 3 - International Day of Persons with Disabilities
• Dec 6 - St. Nicholas Day (Christian)
• Dec 7 - Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (US)
• Dec 8 - Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Christian)
• Dec 8 - Rohatsu/Bodhi Day (Buddhist) 
• Dec 8 - Hanuka - Dec 8 (sunset) to Dec 16 (sunset) (Jewish) 
• Dec 9 - International Anti-Corruption Day
• Dec 10 - Human Rights Day
• Dec 10 - Alfred Nobel Day
• Dec 15 - Bill of Rights Day (US)
• Dec 15 - Esperanto Day
• Dec 16 - Las Posadas/Posadas Navidenas - Dec 16 (evening) to Dec 24 (evening) (Christian - Spanish)

Show Me the Newspapers

Ancestry announced on Thursday a new website: Newspapers.com. Subscription rates are $80/year or $40/year for those who are already subscribing to Ancestry or Fold3. [Note: I rounded up 5 cents from the advertised prices.]

This inspired me to compare the newspaper selections at five major newspaper archival sites. I decided to focus on one state, fully realizing that the comparison was likely to differ somewhat depending upon which state I chose. However, I do not have the time to do this for every state. I chose the state I, personally, was most interested in. Missouri. My ancestors first moved to this state in the 1880s, and my wife's ancestors moved here a bit earlier.

I looked at the newspaper collections at Newspapers (N), Ancestry (A), NewspaperArchive (NA), GenealogyBank (GB), and ChroniclingAmerica (CA).  Of these five, Chronicling America is the only free offering, since it is a product of the Library of Congress. I have free access to NewspaperArchive through my library card. I also can access Ancestry's newspapers at my local library, but I can't access them from home without maintaining my subscription.

Utilizing the abbreviations above, I have noted where a title has shared coverage at a different site. If only a portion of the years are duplicated, I have indicated which years the other site has.  I've separated the titles each site has exclusively.

Note: There are some titles that look similar, but if a site listed them as separate, I assumed they were.

Newspapers.com (22 titles, 9 exclusive, 9 also at NewspaperArchive, 9 also at Ancestry, 5 at all three)

Exclusive

• Mexico Ledger (Mexico, Missouri)
• 1947 – 1977 (52,521 pages )
• Moberly Democrat (Moberly, Missouri)
• 1899 – 1922 (2,883 pages)
• Moberly Evening Democrat (Moberly, Missouri)
• 1899 – 1923 (13,901 pages)
• Moberly Morning Monitor (Moberly, Missouri)
• 1910 – 1916 (2,235 pages)
• Moberly Weekly Democrat (Moberly, Missouri)
• 1906 – 1909 (2,182 pages)
• Neosho News (Neosho, Missouri)
• 1953 – 1976 (7,194 pages)
• The Neosho Daily News (Neosho, Missouri)
• 1913 – 1976 (49,781 pages)
• The Neosho Times (Neosho, Missouri)
• 1913 – 1938 (10,553 pages)

Shared

• The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune (Chillicothe, Missouri) [A 1920-1988]
• 1901 – 1988 (141,823 pages)
• Cole County Democrat (Jefferson City, Missouri) [NA]
• 1904 – 1905 (8 pages)
• The Daily Capital News (Jefferson City, Missouri) [A] [NA]
• 1937 – 1977 (52,108 pages)
• Daily Capital News and Jefferson City Post-Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri) [NA]
• 1931 – 1933 (276 pages)
• Jefferson City Post-Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri) [A] [NA]
• 1932 – 1967 (8,715 pages)
• Jefferson City Tribune-Post (Jefferson City, Missouri) [NA]
• 1927 – 1927 (333 pages)
• Joplin Globe (Joplin, Missouri) [NA] 
• 1921 – 1929 (27,082 pages)
• Magic City Free Press (Moberly, Missouri) [A] [NA]
• 1970 – 1974 (1,618 pages)
• Moberly Monitor-Index (Moberly, Missouri) [A]
• 1922 – 1964 (38,057 pages)
• Moberly Weekly Monitor (Moberly, Missouri) [A]
• 1929 – 1929 (552 pages)
• The News and Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri) [A] [NA]
• 1933 – 1976 (6,729 pages)
• Sedalia Daily Democrat (Sedalia, Missouri) [A] [NA]
• 1871 – 1925 (4,698 pages)
• The Sedalia Democrat (Sedalia, Missouri) [A]
• 1949 – 1950 (6,455 pages )
• The Sikeston Herald (Sikeston, Missouri) [A]
• 1936 – 1960 (12,270 pages)

Ancestry.com (17 titles, 5 exclusive, 9 also at Newspapers, 6 also at NewspaperArchive, 5 at all three)

Exclusive

• Chillicothe Morning Constitution (Chillicothe, Missouri)
• 1889-1985
• The Chillicothe Constitution (Chillicothe, Missouri)
• 1901-1928
• The Constitution Tribune (Chillicothe, Missouri)
• 1985-1988
• Stars and Stripes Newspaper, WWI Edition, 1918-1919
• 1918-1919
• U.S., "Happy Days" Newspaper of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1940
• 1933-1940

[Note: I believe Ancestry lists these last two for every state.]

Shared

• Daily Capital News (Jefferson City, Missouri) [N] [NA]
• 1937-1977
• Sedalia Daily Democrat (Sedalia, Missouri) [N]
• 1871-1925
• Sedalia Democrat, The (Sedalia, Missouri) [N] [NA]
• 1949-1950
• Jefferson City Post-Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri) [N 1932-1967] [NA]
• 1929-1974
• Joplin Globe (Joplin, Missouri) [NA]
• 1944-1958
• Magic City Free Press (Moberly, Missouri) [N] [NA]
• 1970-1974
• Moberly Monitor-Index (Moberly, Missouri) [N 1922-1964]
• 1922-1977
• Moberly Weekly Monitor (Moberly, Missouri) [N 1929]
• 1929-1932
• News and Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri) [N 1933-1976] [NA]
• 1933-1977
• The Chillicothe Constitution Tribune (Chillicothe, Missouri) [N]
• 1920-1988
• The Maryville Daily Forum (Maryville, Missouri) [NA]
• 1940-1955
• The Sikeston Herald (Sikeston, Missouri) [N]
• 1936-1960

NewspaperArchive (31 titles, 21 exclusive, 9 also at Newspapers, 6 also at Ancestry, 6 at all three)

Exclusive

• Capital Daily News (1970)
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Chillicothe Weekly Constitution (1902 - 1920)
• Chillicothe, Missouri
• Daily Capital News and Post Tribune (1931 - 1933)
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Daily Democrat Tribune (1910 - 1924)
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Daily Saint Charles Cosmos Monitor (1921 - 1953)
• Saint Charles, Missouri
• Democrat Tribune (1920 - 1922)
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Jefferson City Daily Capital News (1918 - 1972)
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Jefferson City Daily Tribune (1909)
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Jefferson City Democrat Tribune (1915 - 1920)
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Jefferson City Tribune (1909 - 1927)
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Jefferson City Weekly Tribune (1909)
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Joplin Daily Globe (1898 - 2012)
• Joplin, Missouri
• Joplin News Herald (1921 - 1970)
• Joplin, Missouri
• Joplin Sunday Globe (2010 - 2012)
• Joplin, Missouri
• Mexico School News Roundup (1954)
• Mexico, Missouri
• Missouri Gazette Public Advertiser (1822)
• St Louis, Missouri
• Missouri Republican (1823 - 1824)
• St Louis, Missouri
• St Louis Star Times (1945)
• St Louis, Missouri
• St Louis Weekly Globe Democrat (1896 - 1901)
• St Louis, Missouri
• St Louis World Fair (1904)
• St Louis, Missouri
• Weekly Democrat Tribune (1911 - 1914)
• Jefferson City, Missouri

Shared

• Cole County Democrat (1904 - 1909) [N]
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Daily Capital News (1920 - 1977) [A 1930-1977] [N 1930-1977]
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Daily Capital News and Jefferson City Post Tribune (1931 - 1933) [N]
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Daily Democrat (1871 - 1999) [N 1871-1925] [A 1871-1925]
• Sedalia, Missouri
• Jefferson City News and Tribune (1933 - 1978) [N 1933-1976] [A 1933-1977]
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Jefferson City Post Tribune (1927 - 1978) [A 1929-1974] [N 1932-1967]
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Jefferson City Tribune Post (1927) [N]
• Jefferson City, Missouri
• Joplin Globe (1915 - 2012) [A 1944-1958] [N 1921-1929]
• Joplin, Missouri
• Magic City Free Press (1970 - 1974) [A] [N]
• Moberly, Missouri
• Maryville Daily Forum (1940 - 1955) [A]
• Maryville, Missouri

GenealogyBank (15 titles, 15 exclusive)

• Hannibal - Missouri Courier
• 1/18/1849 – 12/28/1854
• Kansas City - Kansas City Star
• 9/18/1880 – 12/31/1941
• Kansas City - Kansas City Times
• 5/1/1884 – 1/31/1896
• Kansas City - Rising Son
• 1/16/1903 – 12/28/1907
• Kansas City - Cosmopolitan
• 8/22/1914 – 11/15/1919
• Sedalia - Sedalia Times
• 8/31/1901 – 12/19/1903
• St. Louis - St. Louis Republic
• 5/1/1888 – 10/31/1900
• St. Louis - Daily Missouri Republican
• 3/1/1841 – 4/1/1888
• St. Louis - St. Louis Palladium
• 1/10/1903 – 10/5/1907
• St. Louis - Daily Commercial Bulletin
• 5/18/1835 – 12/31/1838
• St. Louis - Weekly St. Louis Pilot
• 1/6/1855 – 11/15/1856
• St. Louis - Missouri Gazette and Public Advertiser
• 3/23/1808 – 9/18/1818
• St. Louis - St. Louis Enquirer
• 3/17/1819 – 12/18/1824
• St. Louis - St. Louis Clarion
• 12/18/1920 – 4/2/1921
• Washington - Die Washingtoner Post
• 11/17/1870 – 11/14/1878

Chronicling America (57 titles, 57 exclusive)

• The Professional world.
• Columbia, Mo., 1901-1903
• The Cape weekly tribune.
• Cape Girardeau, Mo., 1914-1914
• Fair play.
• Ste. Genevieve [Mo.], 1872-1921
• The Jasper news.
• Jasper, Mo., 1901-1922
• The Holt County sentinel.
• Oregon, Mo., 1865-1880
• The Hayti herald.
• Hayti, Mo., 1909-1922
• The state republican.
• Jefferson City, Mo., 1890-1896
• The Missouri herald.
• Hayti, Mo., 1922
• The Cape County herald.
• Cape Girardeau, Mo., 1911-1914
• The Montgomery tribune.
• Montgomery City, Mo., 1900-1910
• The St. Joseph observer.
• St. Joseph, Mo., 1915-1922
• The Lincoln County herald.
• Troy, Lincoln County, Mo., 1866-1873
• The state journal.
• Jefferson City, Mo., 1872-1878
• The Kansas City sun.
• Kansas City, Mo., 1914-1920
• Boon's Lick times.
• Fayette, Mo., 1840-1848
• The Cape Girardeau Democrat.
• Cape Girardeau, Mo., 1891-1901
• Hannibal journal.
• Hannibal, Mo., 1853-1853
• The County paper.
• Oregon, Mo., 1881-1883
• The Holt County sentinel.
• Oregon, Mo., 1883-1921
• Osage Valley banner.
• Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo., 1879-1881
• The Weekly tribune and the Cape County herald.
• Cape Girardeau, Mo., 1914-1918
• Monroe City Democrat.
• Monroe City, Mo., 1898-1919
• Kansas City journal.
• Kansas City, Mo., 1890-1899
• Glasgow weekly times.
• Glasgow, Mo., 1848-1861
• Western union.
• City of Hannibal, Mo., 1850-1851
• Hannibal journal.
• Hannibal, Mo., 1852-1853
• University Missourian.
• Columbia, Mo., 1908-1916
• The Saline republican.
• Marshall, Mo., 1898-1899
• Morgan County democrat.
• Versailles, Mo., 1903-1906
• Morgan County republican.
• Versailles, Mo., 1906-1914
• The Rich Hill tribune.
• Rich Hill, Mo., 1903-1910
• The tribune.
• Rich Hill, Mo., 1901-1902
• Mexico Missouri message.
• Mexico, Audrain County, Mo., 1899-1918
• The Jackson herald.
• Jackson, Mo., 1901-1910
• Glasgow weekly times.
• Glasgow, Howard County, Mo., 1866-1869
• The Howard union.
• Glasgow, Mo., 1865-1865
• The news boy.
• Benton, Scott County, Mo., 1894-1897
• Scott County kicker.
• Benton, Mo., 1901-1917
• The daily Missourian.
• Columbia, Mo., 1916-1917
• The Evening Missourian.
• Columbia, Mo., 1917-1920
• The Columbia evening Missourian.
• Columbia, Mo., 1920-1922
• Saturday morning visitor.
• City of Warsaw, Mo., 1848-1849
• The Sedalia weekly bazoo.
• Sedalia, Mo., 1877-1893
• Weekly graphic.
• Kirksville, Adair Co., Mo., 1880-896
• The Troy herald.
• Troy, Mo., 1873-1878
• Salt River journal.
• Bowling Green, Mo., 1839-1841
• The radical.
• Bowling Green [Mo., 1841-1845
• The St. Louis Republic.
• St. Louis, Mo., 1900-1906
• Kansas City daily journal.
• Kansas City, Mo., 1895-1897
• Sedalia weekly conservator.
• Sedalia, Mo., 1903-1908
• Democratic banner.
• Bowling Green, Pike County, Mo., 1845-1851
• Hannibal journal and western union.
• Hannibal, Mo., 1851-1852
• Richmond democrat.
• Richmond, Ray County, Mo., 1879-1888
• The Rising son.
• Kansas City, Mo., 1903-1907
• The Andrew County Republican.
• Savannah, Mo., 1871-1876
• The weekly tribune.
• Cape Girardeau, Mo., 1918-1919
• The Marshall republican.
• Marshall, Saline County, Mo., 1899-1914

Conclusions

1) Newspapers.com is definitely not merely a duplicate of the selection at Ancestry. Nor is it a duplicate of the selection at NewspaperArchive. There is overlap, but all three have unique coverage.

2) GenealogyBank and Ancestry are essentially tied with 15 titles in Missouri, not counting the two national titles at Ancestry. However, GenealogyBank's titles are all exclusive. And they have coverage in St. Louis and Kansas City the other sites don't have. I don't know if it holds up in other states, but in Missouri GenealogyBank seems to have an urban focus, while the other sites focus rurally.

3) If a researcher isn't utilizing ChroniclingAmerica - they are missing out on an excellent free resource.

4) Personally, I don't see a strong need to subscribe to Newspapers.com.  However, this choice is going to depend entirely on the newspapers of interest for each individual researcher.