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 […]
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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 […]
Finding your ancestors in newspaper articles is in my opinion – an art, not a science. You must be clever and resourceful to get around the quality limitations in old newspapers A “feature” of older newspapers is the use of the hyphen. Hyphenated words were often used heavily to save space and due to the […]
There are several ways to enhance your ability to find obituaries in old newspapers and other sources. Here are just a few of the most important techniques: To download the 9 Ways to Effectively Find Obituaries in Online Newspapers Quick Sheet PDF, click on the Download button: For all the previously published Quick Reference Guides, […]
