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 historical newspapers for their communities. The list has grown a lot since then. […]
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Newspapers
For those of you who have Polish ancestry in your family tree, there are lots of Polish-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. In fact, according to the Library of Congress, there are exactly 240 Polish-language newspapers […]
For those of you who have some German in your family tree, there are several German-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 […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 878 million digitized pages from over 23,987 titles. Here is a list of the 99 new and updated titles from the past month. England Devon Panama Panama United States California Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for June 2023. There are 0 New Titles and 70 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 69.1 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
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 12 New Titles and added to 50 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
On this website, the first set of free online links to U.S. historical newspapers was published in February 2014, with about 10,000 titles. There have been at least two updates published each year since then. This second update for 2023 adds another 1,300 titles. The grand total is 47,075 links to Historical American Newspapers that […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for August 2023. There are 15 New Titles and 9 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 August additions. To see our […]
For those of you who have Jewish ancestry in your family tree, there are lots of Jewish-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. The first part of the list is titles that are available from many different […]
Over 35% of American families were involved in agriculture in the late 19th century. It is down to less than 5% today and certainly higher than 35% prior to 1899. Obviously, the stories of farmers and their families were recorded in local and county newspapers. As researchers, we also need to look to Farming newspapers […]
