Recently, I stumbled upon a Maine website that provides the ability to search multiple online historical collections that were provided by Advantage Archives in conjunction with Maine libraries. The website where you can perform this search is at https://www.mainegenealogy.net/community_archives_search.asp I have not seen any other state provide this multi-collection search. This is a very useful […]
Category: Newspapers
Newspapers
For the last 5 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 […]
Background Veridian Software is the product and service provided by DL Consulting, a company that resides in Hamilton, New Zealand. They specialize in national newspaper collections worldwide, large statewide collections in the United States, and universities. I interviewed the CEO of DL Consulting in July 2021. You can read it HERE. It will provide you […]
The Digital Library of Georgia has just announced that 67 titles have been added in the Spring 2024 Update. They are now 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, as well as their funding sources: […]
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. […]
After over a decade of availability, the Library of Congress (LOC) has upgraded the user interface for Chronicling America. It now incorporates the standard LOC search and results interface, which includes Results Filtering. It is available now (they still call it a Beta release) and my summary review is as follows: If you want to […]
Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 88 million pages currently. They power California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, 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 […]
Digital Michigan Newspapers regularly adds or updates newspaper titles for the collection. Last month 15 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Digital Michigan Newspapers website). Here is the list of titles: To access the site go to Digital Michigan Newspapers
Virginia Chronicle regularly adds or updates newspaper titles for the collection. Last month 29 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Virginia Chronicle website). Here is the list of titles: To access the site go to Virginia Chronicle
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 July 2023. The largest collection […]