Gannett, Ancestry.com to digitally archive more than 80 U.S. newspapers

McLean-based Gannett Co. Inc. has teamed up with Ancestry.com to digitize more than 80 daily newspapers across the nation.

Gannett and Newspapers.com, one of Ancestry’s websites, expect to deliver more than 100 million images of newspapers in an online archive through each newspaper’s website and app.

“We’re thrilled to partner with Gannett to deliver newspapers from the past directly to subscribers’ devices, allowing them to step back in time and experience the news as it was happening on that day, from new babies and marriages to war updates and other major news events,” Brent Carter, senior director of business development at Newspapers.com, said in a statement.

Through this collaboration, more than 4 million pages of The Cincinnati Enquirer are available online. Newspapers.com and Gannett plan to start rolling out the other archives.

Gannett digital subscribers will have access to the most recent two years of content included in full-access subscriptions. Complete archives will be available to everyone with an monthly or annual subscription.

Ancestry.com is an online family history resource with more than 2 million subscribers across all its websites.

Gannett Co. Inc. is a media company whose publications include USA Today, Detroit Free Press and The Tennessean.