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 […]
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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 […]
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 State of Alaska is adding 55,000 pages to Chroniclimg America! Here is part of the announcement from the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project: “October and November were exciting months here at the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project. We submitted 5 new batches of newspaper issues to the Library of Congress and all 5 were accepted! This […]
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. who preserve the historical newspapers for their communities. The list has grown a lot since […]
Reveal Digital, the company behind Independent Voices, which is a collection of alternative newspapers, has published a new collection, American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020 Here is a descripton from their website: On March 24, 1800, Forlorn Hope became the first newspaper published within a prison by an incarcerated person. In the intervening 200 years, over 450 prison newspapers have […]
