GenealogyBank Adds/Updates 91 Titles – September, 2021

GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for September 2021. There are 37 New Titles and 54 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 86 titles from 32 states, plus 2 titles from […]

Advantage Archives Adds 1.2 Million Historical Newspaper Pages – August, 2021

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 […]

Find My Past Makes 1 Million Pages of British Newspapers Available for Free

Announced on August 9, 2021, Find My Past in partnership with the British Library, has made 158 titles and one million pages available to search for free. Read the announcement HERE Search the newspapers HERE Below is a list of the 158 titles that are available: Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser, 1875-1879 Baldwin’s London Weekly […]

NewspaperARCHIVE Update – August, 2021

NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for August 2021. There are 28 New Titles and 303 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 15,000 titles available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. Check out the Interview I conducted […]

British Newspaper Archive Adds/Updates 121 Titles – August, 2021

The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for August 2021. There are 50 New Titles and 71 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 44.6 million pages available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]

Find My Past Adds/Updates 114 Historical Newspaper Titles – August, 2021

Find My Past is an underappreciated source for digitized newspapers. A subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers, it has titles from all over the world, including the U.S. Currently their collection numbers nearly 120 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 49 New Titles and added to […]

Chronicling America Updates – August 2021

Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for August 2021. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 23 in total from 8 different states. Alaska Updated content for […]

Interview With Kendall Hulet, CEO of Newspaper Archive

You may not know this, but Newspaper Archive has a new management team, after their acquisition in October 2020. From the Press release, “Charles Thayne Capital, a growth-oriented private investment firm focused on technology and based in Chicago, has acquired World Archives, the operator of NewspaperArchive.com.” The new CEO, Kendall Hulet, formerly of Ancestry.com, answered […]

NEH Announces 2021 Awards to 10 States in the National Digital Newspaper Program

The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced the 2021 grants for the National Digital Newspaper Program to 10 states: Arkansas Connecticut Florida Georgia Massachusetts Montana Rhode Island Texas Wisconsin Wyoming The details for each state’s grant can be found in this pdf

GenealogyBank Adds/Updates 88 Titles – August, 2021

GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for August 2021. There are 34 New Titles and 54 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 85 titles from 32 states, plus 1 title from […]