The Library of Virginia and the Virginia Newspaper Project have collaborated to make available online, many newspapers published in Virginia from the various Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps throughout the state from 1934 to 1941. The complete announcement of the new collection is available at VNP ANNOUNCES THE CCC. Here is a list of the current Virginia […]
There are quite a bit of free online historical newspapers from Australia. Most of the links listed below are for totally free access. This article lists links to many online collections. There may be some that you are aware of that are not on this list, so please weigh in in the comments. The huge national […]
Many people have used the Free Google News Archive to search historic newspapers for articles about their ancestors. If you haven’t, you should. It is free and fairly easy to use.I for one, always seem to forget how to access the list of all the newspapers contained in the archives. Here is the link. In […]
There are several subscription websites for researching City Directories to find your ancestors, including ancestry.com and fold3.com as just examples. But are you aware of two free ones that are quite useful? The first is well known, and that is Internet Archive (www.archive.org). Just enter “city directory” with the quotes in the search box and […]
