For anyone who follows this site and my articles, it would be quite easy to draw the conclusion that I am crazy obsessed with searching old newspapers to find ancestor stories. And you would be 100% correct! To help you with the same endeavor, below are 1000’s of free links, tips, tutorials, and lots of […]
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Newspapers
To help you find historical newspaper articles about your ancestors, below are thousands of free historical newspaper links. Please note that any article that includes links to free or other newspaper research sites are accurate at the time of publication. Collection updates may occur (as well as dead links) in the future, both of which […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for April, 2021. There are 14 New Titles, and 21 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 35 titles from 17 states and the District of […]
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 then. Now there […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for March 2021. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 20 in total from 6 different states. Arkansas Updated content for […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for March, 2021. There are 23 New Titles, and 28 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 41 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, it has titles from all over the world, including the U;S. Currently their collection numbers nearly.120 million pages. It is growing rapidly. Last month, Find My Past added 33 New Titles and added to 45 existing […]
Great news from the state of Georgia: “The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce that it has completed the digitization of two historically significant Georgia African American newspapers as part of a National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The digital images will be included […]
Source: Northern New York Library Network If you follow this website at all, you know that I from time to time update the free online historical newspapers that are available for you to search. I originally posted the New York Online Historical Newspapers Summary in February, 2014, and have added many updates, the latest in November, 2020. The largest collection for […]
The Connecticut State Library has just announced the addition of 2 new titles from the 1800s that have been added to Chronicling America. From the State Library: “The CT Digital Newspaper Project (CDNP) is excited to announce that two more historic Connecticut newspapers have been added to Chronicling America – the Litchfield County Post and the Litchfield Enquirer! […]