Chronicling America Updates – September 2022

Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for September 2022. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 10 in total from 3 states and the District of Columbia. […]

FamilySearch New and Updated Collections – September 30, 2022

FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. ​​For the period of September 1-30, 2022, the added/updated collections are: Argentina, Catamarca, Catholic Church Records, 1724-1971 Argentina, Catamarca, Civil Registration, 1888-2000 Argentina, Chaco, Civil Registration, 1889-1946 Argentina, Corrientes, Catholic Church Records, 1734-1977 Argentina, Jujuy, Catholic Church Records, […]

NY State Historical Newspapers Adds/Updates 1 Title – September, 2022

Source: Northern New York Library Network  If you follow this website at all, you know that I from time to time update the free online historical newspapers that are available for you to search. I originally posted the New York Online Historical Newspapers Summary in February 2014, and have added many updates, the latest in April 2022. The largest collection […]

Georgia Historic Newspapers Update Fall 2022 Adds 159 Titles

The Digital Library of Georgia has just announced that 159 titles have been added this year. They are part of the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. The complete article announcement can be read HERE Here is the list of the titles and date ranges available: Adel News, 1900-1904 Advance (Vidalia), 2021 Advertiser (Cleveland), 1881 Advocate-Democrat (Crawfordville), 1893-1906 American […]

9,925 Free Online Obituary and Obituary Index Collection Links from the U.S.

Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to obituary information and transcriptions of obituaries from newspapers have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the scanned newspaper clipping is included. And remember you […]

1,450 Free Obituary and Obituary Index Collection Links for the Western States

Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to obituary information and transcriptions of obituaries from newspapers have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the scanned newspaper clipping is included. And remember you […]

4,390 Free Obituary and Obituary Index Collection Links for the Southern States

Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to obituary information and transcriptions of obituaries from newspapers have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the scanned newspaper clipping is included. And remember you […]

Advantage Archives Adds 2.9 Million Historical Newspaper Pages – August 2022

In February 2017, I started publishing a list of the catalog of online historical newspapers from over 400 different collections put together by the Advantage Archives Company, developed in conjunction with the libraries, historical societies, and museums across the U.S. that preserve the historical newspapers for their communities. The list has grown a lot since […]

Spain Free Online Historical Newspapers

In 2014, this website began to curate links to free online newspapers in the United States. The initial publication listed about 10,000 titles. A few years later, digitized and free Canadian newspaper collection links were curated and published. Today, between the two countries there are over 47,500 historical newspaper titles that are listed. The common […]

1,190 Free Obituary and Obituary Index Collection Links for the Mid Atlantic States

One of the main goals for genealogists is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information, and more importantly – information about the relatives of the deceased’s family and extended family. This family name information is often not found anywhere else. Over the past […]