Last year I saved quite a few pages from newspapers, and now I find they are suddenly gone. To site just one example, Waukesha Daily Freeman, October 16, 1922 or 1923 (there's a smudge on the scan) is no longer online.

I thought perhaps this problem with the index and failed searches was to blame, but then I looked through the list of years avaiable for the paper and they are all gone!!

Does Ancestry remove data -- and perhaps then add it back at a later date with a claim that they've added to the database??? I am highly suspicious with what I am beginning to believe is a shady company...

Wow -- that's really discouraging. I intend to go back and look at some of my old newspaper copies to see if the papers are still there. When I last looked, they were -- I could find them by browsing the particular paper for a given date. Sure hope what you suspect is not true!

Pat

There are MANY newspapers that are now missing. It's not clear if just the links are gone, or of the papers have been removed. Either way, it's pretty outrageous for Ancestry not to alert its customers that things they have used in the past (and paid for!) are no longer available.

Head to Newspaperarchive.com
They have all the papers and more for a mere $30 a year.

So far, I cannot locate 30 papers I previously found. I'm still trying to find them all, which doesn't help matters if the search facility is broken! In the future, I guess I have to save every single one - and buy a bigger hard disk! The whole process is tedious, since you have to save the entire page, and then, when you want to see the information later, you have to read the entire thing to find the little bit that's of interest!

People at Ancestry - we would be highly interested to receive a response from you on this subject. Surely you don't want customers (potential and curent) to think and say bad things about the company. What say you?

Believe me, Ancestry does not care. Nor do they have any interest in responding to the issue.

With Newspaperarchive.com, you view each paper via Acrobat Adobe, and can simply cut and paste the image of your article right into an email or Word doc. They have far more newspapers than Ancestry. The cutting and pasting is very handy - very simple. The subscription is Very inexpensive. And they even respond when there is a technical glitch. What a concept!

I am one of Ancestry's "pioneer" subscribers - and I cannot tell you how discouraged I am by what has happened to this company.

Thanks, Laura - I'll give Newspaperarchive a go.

I have also found missing papers. I had several pages from the Deming (NM) Headlight saved and they are now missing. What is odd is that the current years on Ancestry match Newspaperarchive exactly. In the past someone from Ancestry was very helpful in getting additional years added but it looks like those days are gone.

Thanks for this info...even though I can't afford it, I bet there's many who can.
There's issues missing at Ancestry from the North Adams Transcript which contain info on my Pratt family who lived & died & are buried there...
Kind of ticks me off that Ancestry doesn't have all the issues available....or maybe they used to given what I've read in this discussion.

The Newspaperarchive.com subscription is now $9.99 per month if paid annually --- $17.99 per month if paid one month at a time.