Newspaper research is one of the most important areas of interest for genealogists, and thanks to a pair of database-rich websites, this kind of research might be made a lot easier.

On Monday, newspaper record giant NewspaperARCHIVE.com announced its partnership with World Vital Records. The agreement will provide increased access to an astounding half-billion records from newspaper archives dated from 1759 to 1923.

“Historical newspapers contain valuable information about our ancestors, which may not have been preserved in any other form. By making these records easily accessible, we hope they can become a part of someone’s family history,” said Jeff Kiley, General Manager, NewspaperARCHIVE.com.

“We wanted to have vital record information from early American newspapers. NewspaperARCHIVE.com has allowed us to extract this information from their newspapers that cover the first 160-years of their collection,” said Yvette Arts, Director, Content Acquisition, World Vital Records, Inc.

With this partnership, NewspaperARCHIVE.com will provide several million pages of vital record data, which will be available for subscribers at WorldVitalRecords.com.

Once the material from NewspaperARCHIVE.com has been launched, the data will be available for free at WorldVitalRecords.com for a ten-day period. The first release of the data will include 40 million records. Subsequent releases will follow totaling more than a half-billion records. Some links to the data will also be available at FamilyLink.com (World Vital Records Inc.’s new genealogy social network).