In a word, the Old Fulton New York Postcards website is a marvel. Created and maintained by one man, Tom Tryniski, this newspaper database has been in existence since 1999 when Tom began scanning microfilmed newspapers. Currently, this database has over 51.6 million digitized newspaper pages that are searchable by anyone, anywhere. I have just […]
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GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for December 2022. There are 56 New Titles and 58 Titles that have had issues added in the previous month. From GenealogyBank: Here are some of the details about our most recent U.S. newspaper additions: Here is a list of the December additions. To see our […]
Just like newspapers of all types and sources, many of these African-American newspapers have been digitized and are available for research – some for free, some only available at a library or archive, and some via subscription. And of course, most are still in paper form or microfilm and have not been digitized, so must […]
Find My Past is an underappreciated source for digitized newspapers. It is a subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers. Currently their collection numbers over 50 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 25 New Titles and added to 215 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 50 million pages currently. They power California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming state newspaper collections. And country-wide collections, such as Estonia, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, and Switzerland. Veridian is the name of the software and […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for November 2022. There are 39 New Titles and 160 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 60.4 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for November 2022. There are 1 New Title and 37 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 15,988 titles available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. Below are the titles added or […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 811 million digitized pages from over 22,2264 titles. Here is a list of the 192 new and updated titles from the past month. Canada British Columbia England Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Derbyshire Devon Greater London Hertfordshire Kent […]
For those of you who have some Italian in your family tree, there are several Italian-American newspapers that have been published over the last hundred or so years that may help you find some information and stories about your ancestors. Listed are only those that are available online. As always, there are tons more available […]
Union membership was about 15% in the 1930s and peaked at about 35% in the 1950s in the U.S. Currently, union membership is about 10%, even though in the past couple of decades, public-sector union membership has increased. Unions, labor movements, and workers had specialty newspapers throughout the country. Some of these have been digitized and the […]
