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 service package created by DL Consulting, headquartered in Hamilton, New Zealand.
This past month, they have added or updated 50 titles from 10 collections and 4 different countries, including the U.S.
Here is the list of their collections that had additions and the date range available for that title.
Cambridge Public Library’s Historic Cambridge Newspaper Collection
- Boston Herald American’s Cambridge Rambler (1-Jul-75 – 12-Sep-81)
- The Cambridge Chronicle (7 May 1846 – 26-Dec-19)
- The Cambridge Sentinel (31-Oct-03 – 13-Dec-47)
Catholic Research Resources Alliance
- The Catholic Commentator (8-Feb-63 – 21-Sep-21)
- The Catholic Voice (25-Jan-21 – 24-Sep-21)
Colorado State Library / Wyoming State Library – Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
- The Dolores Star (5-Apr-01 – 19-Dec-24)
- The Salida Mail (January 5, 1884 – 9-Oct-25)
- The Silver Star (April 8, 1897 – 29-Mar-01)
Eastview – Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection
- Shanhai / 上海 [The Shanghai, Japanese Weekly], (Shanghai, China) (7/1/1938 – 12/1/1941)
- Yamato Shinbun / やまと新聞 [The Yamato Shimbun], (Honolulu, HI) (1896-10-03 – 10/31/1906)
National Library of Israel – Israel National Library
- Die Deborah (24 August 1855 – 1-Dec-02)
- Unzer Hilf (Rivne) – אונזער הילף (רובנו) (25-Apr-26 – 1-Feb-39)
- Unzer ṿeg (Lemberg) – אונזער וועג (לעמבערג) (8-Mar-32 – 13-Jul-34)
- Unzer ṿeg (Rivne) – אונזער וועג (רובנו) (9-Sep-34 – 26-Jan-35)
- ha-Arets – הארץ (4-Apr-18 – 30-Dec-94)
- ha-Mevaśer ha-ʻIvri – המבשר העברי (19-Mar-31 – 5-Mar-32)
- ha-ʻIvri (Tunis) – העברי (תוניס) (1-Dec-37 – 1-Jun-38)
Rift Valley Institute – Sudan Open Archive
- Wunlit Peace Conference (Oral Interview) (20-Aug-19 – 9-Mar-20)
Swiss National Library – e-newspaperarchives.ch
- Der Demokrat (15. November 1957 – 21. Oktober 1959)
- Journal du Jura (1. Januar 1876 – 30. Dezember 1995)
- La Voce delle Valli (20. März 1948 – 26. Oktober 2012)
University of California, Riverside – California Digital Newspaper Collection
- Aptos Post (21-Aug-81 – 18-May-83)
- Chula Vista Star-News (3-Jun-89 – 26-Dec-08)
- Daily News Leader (San Mateo) (25 May 1889 – 31-Dec-24)
- National City Star-News (5-Jan-23 – 31-May-89)
- Pomona Clarion (5-Mar-70 – 13-Aug-70)
- Star-News National City and Chula Vista (11-Apr-55 – 27-Aug-61)
- Times Gazette (9 April 1859 – 5-Dec-03)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
- Abendblatt (24 October 1894 – 27 July 1899)
- Abendblatt der Illinois Staats-zeitung (27 March 1893 – 23 October 1894)
- Daily Worker (13-Jan-24 – 28-Feb-35)
- Illinois Staats-zeitung (Chicago, Ill. 1862) daily (2 January 1888 – 30 April 1888)
- )Illinois Staats-zeitung (Chicago, Ill. Weekly) (26 March 1863 – 27 December 1899)
- Proletarec (1-Jan-06 – 25-Dec-46)
- Rassvet (1-Dec-26 – 26-Sep-38)
- Rassvet (New York) (1-May-25 – 31-Dec-25)
- Russkiĭ vestnik (1-May-26 – 14-May-26)
- Russkiĭ vestnik i rassvet (15-May-26 – 30-Nov-26)
- Svobodnai︠a︡ Rossii︠a︡ (6-Jul-18 – 23-Aug-23)
- The American Issue (Illinois Edition) (16-Feb-12 – 1-May-32)
- The Chicago Star (6-Jul-46 – 4-Sep-48)
- The Illinois Standard (11-Sep-48 – 29-Jan-49)
- The Jewish Advance (14 June 1878 – 14 October 1881)
- Theocrat (21-Feb-14 – 7-Sep-49)
- Vandalia Whig and Illinois Intelligencer (28 March 1832 – 17 December 1834)
Washington State Library – Washington Digital Newspapers
- Scandinavian American (1-Jan-45 – 1-Dec-56)
- Southwest Washington Labor Press (24-Nov-22 – 10-Dec-63)
- The Kennewick Courier-reporter (2-Apr-14 – 20-Jan-21)
- The Northwest Times (1-Jan-47 – 23-Mar-55)
- The Oroville Weekly Gazette (1-Jan-09 – 21-Dec-23)
Check out their website at Veridian Software to learn more about them. And as always, you can see all the free online newspaper links colledcted by The Ancestor Hunt in Newspaper Links
