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 […]
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This just in from DL Consulting. the makers of Veridian Software, and the providers of Elephind, which provided a federated search of several newspaper databases, all at once. Dear Elephind Community, We’ve made the difficult decision to take Elephind offline. Over the past few years, the platform has been running on outdated technology, as it […]
For those of you who have some French in your family tree, several French-American newspapers have been published over the last hundred or so years that may help you find some information and stories about your ancestors. Most of the French language newspapers were published in the upper New England states and Louisiana, but also a […]
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. […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for March 2024. There are 60 New Titles and 12 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: To see our newspaper archives’ entire title list of more than […]
MyHeritage has just announced and made available its Historical Newspaper Research subscription site, called Old News. I have included below the initial Press Release plus my initial review. As with all new services, there are some good things and things that need to be added and improved. They have written a more detailed description of […]
For those of you who have Catholic ancestry in your family tree, there are lots of newspapers that have been published in the past that may help you find some information and stories about your ancestors. I recently became aware of the Catholic Newspapers Program, which is a result of a project started in 2011 by the Catholic Research Resources Alliance. […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 932 million digitized pages from 25,607 titles. Here is a list of the 36 new titles from the past month. New Titles AustraliaSouth Australia ScotlandEast Lothian Strathclyde United StatesCalifornia District of Columbia Florida Illinois Maine Pennsylvania Good […]
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 74.4 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 5 new titles and added to 78 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for February 2024. There are 7 New Titles and 114 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 74.4 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]