The newspapers are one of the best resources on Ancestry.com
But I'm going to have to say ditto regards searching. I've given up using the search function. Even if I have the person's exact name and a year, the search just spews out a bunch of hits that turn out to be misses.
The only way I've found articles is if I know almost exactly which issue they are in. For example, if I know a person's death date, I can go page by page through the paper the day after.
Some examples of misses:
If I'm looking for the last name
Vest, it will give me West.
One of my names is
Smith. Even with an exact name and a month/year, it gives me things like the Snuffy
Smith comic strip.
If I give an exact year, it gives me a bunch of hits that aren't even in hollering distance of the year.
