The U.S. Virgin Islands received a NEW Grant to digitize newspapers in August, 2020. Chronicling America has just announced the addition of the first title. From The Library of Congress: “This month Chronicling America added newspapers from its 50th contributor – the University of the Virgin Islands! This first newspaper from the U.S. Virgin Islands, the St. Croix Avis, provides […]
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Newspapers
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 […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for March, 2021. There are 39 New Titles, and 24 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 52 titles from 24 states, plus 11 national titles […]
The Digital Library of Georgia just announced that 41 titles have just been added in the past few months to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. The complete announcement can be found HERE. The announcement also discusses where the funding for each of the added titles came from. Here is a list of the titles (and funding organization): Titles […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for February, 2021. There are 33 New Titles, and 45 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. Below […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers, regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for February, 2021. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 26 in total from 8 different states and the Virgin Islands. Alaska Updated […]
Source: Images from findmypast.com 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 23 New Titles […]
The Alaska State Library has just announced that they have added 13 titles to the state’s digitized newspaper collection available at Chronicling America. The complete announcement can be read HERE Here are the titles that have been added: The New Native (Hydaburg, Alaska) The Free Press (Fairbanks, Alaska) The Alaska Socialist (Fairbanks, Alaska) The Midnight […]
Source: University of Wyoming and the Wyoming State Library The state of Wyoming has just announced a partnership that yields a new collection of the state’s historical newspapers available online. From the State: “The Wyoming State Library and the University of Wyoming Libraries have worked in partnership to launch a new digital collection of historic […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for January, 2021. There are 64 New Titles, and 24 Titles that have had issues added in the previous month. From GenealogyBank: “We just completed adding new content from 88 newspaper titles, increasing our content coverage from coast to coast: a total of 82 titles from […]