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. The final update of 2021 adds another 1,400 titles. The grand total is 39,080 links to Historical American Newspapers that can […]
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OK – you won’t get rich when you find an obituary, but your genealogy research will benefit, and your family history research will get richer. We have a tendency as researchers to underappreciate the value of the documents or articles that we already have acquired, and spend our time looking for new “stuff.” There are […]
The State of Alaska has added 16 new titles and 21,000 pages to Chronicling America. Here is part of the announcement from the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project: Two new batches of data from the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project are now online at https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Our batches contain over 5000 newspaper issues from the following titles: Fort Wrangel […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for January 2022. There are 26 New Titles and 5 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: A total of 30 titles from 15 states, plus 1 national title […]
For the last 4 years, I have been tracking the online collections made available by the Advantage Archives (formerly Advantage Preservation) company, which has contracted with several hundred libraries and other institutions across the U.S. to digitize and host their online newspaper collections. These links have also been incorporated in the state collection summaries found […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for December 2021. There are 0 New Titles and 36 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 15,700 titles available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. Below are the titles added or […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for December 2021. There are 16 New Titles and 107 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 46.8 million pages available at 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. A subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers. Currently their collection numbers nearly 120 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 23 New Titles and added to 38 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Bromley & […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for December 2021. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 116 in total from 30 different states and DC. Alabama Updated […]
Finding information and articles in newspapers about your ancestors is incredibly rewarding. And the amount of information about your ancestors in old newspapers is likely more than we can find. But if you are not careful you can make assumptions about what is in the ink on the newsprint and foul up your research because […]
