In old newspapers, abbreviations were used to save space. Abbreviations were used to shorten many words – the most notable being given names as well as addresses. Remember that your search criteria are just a series of letters that are matched against a search index that was created from the scan and OCR process applied to the subject newspaper page. […]
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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 January 2024. There are 11 New Titles and 15 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: Here is a list of the January additions. To see our […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. 2023 Chronicling America Accomplishments In 2023, Chronicling America finally achieved the goal of including all 50 states, plus DC, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. New Hampshire was the final state to join. 2024 Chronicling America […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 916 million digitized pages from 24,522 titles. Here is a list of the 135 new titles from the past month. New Titles AustraliaNew South Wales CanadaOntario EnglandLondon Merseyside United StatesAlabama California Florida Illinois Kentucky Maine Michigan Minnesota […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for December 2023. There are 5 New Titles and 28 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 73.1 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for December 2023. There are 5 New Titles and 57 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of 16,096 titles available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. Below are the titles added or updated […]
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 72 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 6 new titles and added to 35 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for December 2023. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 19 in total. Connecticut Maine Massachusetts Minnesota Montana Nebraska New York […]
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. […]
