British Newspaper Archive Adds/Updates 132 Titles – January, 2022

The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for January 2022. There are 17 New Titles and 115 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 47.4 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 108 Historical Newspaper Titles – January, 2022

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 10 New Titles and added to 98 existing titles.  They are listed below: New Titles Bexhill-on-Sea Chronicle, […]

Historical Free Caribbean Newspapers Online

For those of you who have ancestors/relatives from the Caribbean island countries, there are over 250 historical newspapers listed below that have been published over the last two hundred or so that may help you find some information and stories about them. Listed are only those that are available online. As always, there are many […]

Interview With The Headline King, Lee Hanover

A while ago, I came in contact with a gentleman, Lee Hanover, who is even more interested in old newspapers than I am! His interest is not genealogical in nature, but more from a historical perspective. He specializes in newspaper headlines and other historical media. Lee was kind enough to provide answers to my interview […]

Veridian Adds/Updates 116 Titles – January, 2022

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 […]

Almost 40,000 Free Online Historical U.S. Newspapers Now Available to Research – End of 2021

On this website, the first set of free online links to U.S. historical newspapers was published in February 2014. with about 10,000 titles. There have been at least two updates published each year since then. The final update of 2021 adds another 1,400 titles. The grand total is 39,080 links to Historical American Newspapers that can […]

Alaska Adds 16 Newspaper Titles to Chronicling America

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 […]

GenealogyBank Adds/Updates 31 Titles – January 2022

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 […]

95 Million Historic U.S. Newspaper Pages Now Available from Advantage Archives

Note: This post has been replaced with a more current list of Advantage Archives collections. Please visit 120 Million Historic U.S. Newspaper Pages Now Available from Advantage Archives 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 […]

NewspaperARCHIVE Update – December, 2021

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 […]