Alaska, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Washington Updates

Petersburg, Alaska

Alaska - four new titles from the Petersburg Public Library

Indiana - seven new titles from the Library of Congress

Michigan - two new titles from Google News Archive

New Mexico - 27 new and two updated titles from the Library of Congress

Washington - ten titles from the Library of Congress

New Website for New Mexico National Digital Newspaper Project

I received an email today from Andrew Weidner, Project Coordinator of New Mexico Historical Newspapers announcing that the New Mexico National Digital Newspaper Project (part of the Library of Congress' Chronicling America program) has set up a site to link to their content at http://newmexicodigitalnewspapers.weebly.com/. From this site, you can view a map showing the locations of where the digitized newspapers were originally published, a timeline of when they were published, and links to all the titles so far digitized. You can also read the related blog and see how far production has come (look for both under About in the menu).

Additionally, the Library of Congress has notified the the New Mexico Historical Newspapers project that another 30,000 New Mexico newspaper images will go online soon, including many new titles. Mr. Weidner will update me as soon as that happens.

 

Online Newspaper Sites Terms of Use, Newspaper Copyright, and the Google News Archive

This past week, I've come across some tremendous resources that will be of help to those doing research in online historical newspapers.

The first include three articles from The Legal Genealogist's blog:

"Looking at the news sites" - this article compares the terms of use of three major online historical newspaper websites, Newspapers.com (the newest member of the Ancestry.com family), GenealogyBank.com, and NewspaperArchive.com. This is important information to understand should you be using their digitized newspaper images.

"Copyright & the news reprint" - Judy Russell discusses copyright and public domain and how that affects using digitized newspaper images of whole newspaper pages as well as copies of hard copy newspapers

"Copyright & the newspaper article" - here's more detail about copyright laws and newspaper articles in particular

You can also search The Legal Genealogist's blog for copyright law as it pertains to obituaries, another newspaper-related topic.

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A new genealogy blog made its debut this week, the Enhanced News Archive. This blog is devoted to the topic of Google News Archive. If you've spent any time at the Google News Archive site, you'll find that unfortunately, all the digitized newspapers are listed alphabetically by title only and there is no easy way to determine if any of those papers came from your ancestral locations. Jose Munoz, of Enhanced News Archive has composed two extremely helpful lists. One is the Enhanced News Archive List with Locations in which he has listed all the locations of all the newspapers found at Google News Archive. The second is the Table of States 2, which lists all the American newspapers at Google News Archive by their location. The post "USA Only - Enhanced Newspaper Archive List"--despite its name--has downloads in Microsoft document form of both lists.

These lists are extremely helpful in determining whether your ancestral locations have newspapers digitized at Google News Archive. Jose did inform me that there were some general, rather than specific, locations listed and I did find a couple minor errors--Yukon Territory (part of Canada) being listed under Alaska, for instance--but as a whole, these are amazing resources and a great deal of work and time were expended creating them. I ought to know, as I've only started adding the titles beginning with the letter "B" to my Online Historical Newspaper site!

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I trust these two blogs will be of great assistance in your newspaper research!

British Columbia, Kansas, Manitoba, Maryland, and Michigan New Pages and Updates

New Pages

Manitoba - with seven titles from the Manitobia Project

Updates

British Columbia - one new title from the University of Victoria

Kansas - 19 new titles from Belleville Public Library

Maryland - two new titles from Google News Archive

Michigan - two new titles each from the Kalamazoo Public Library and the Northville District Library

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New York, Quebec and West Virginia New Pages and Updates

It's hard to believe it's been over six months since I have posted the new pages and updates! I have added a lot of new links and updates over the past two months. There are now pages for all 50 states of the Union, plus Washington, D.C.! Here's the latest:

New Pages

Massachusetts - with one title each from the Sturgis Library and the Barnstable Patriot, three titles from the University of Massachusetts at Boston via NewspaperARCHIVES, and four titles from the Provincetown Public Library

Mississippi - with 17 titles from GenealogyBank

Nevada - with one title from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, two titles from the Henderson District Public Libraries, seven titles from GenealogyBank, and 10 titles from the Cooperative Libraries Automated Network

West Virginia - with four titles from GenealogyBank



Updates

Alabama - one new title from GenealogyBank

Arizona - seven new titles from GenealogyBank and one from ProQuest

Arkansas - one new title from GenealogyBank

Georgia - two new titles from ProQuest

Maryland - two new titles from Google News Archive

Michigan - two new titles from the Kalamazoo Public Library

New York - changed three Erie County links from the Western New York Legacy site to the New York Heritage Digital Collection. Links to more titles at this new site will be added soon to this page.

Québec - one new title from Google News Archive

News from the Library of Congress' Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

More than 550,000 pages and 100 Titles Added to Chronicling America in Recent Months

Since October 2011, the National Digital Newspaper Program has expanded the Chronicling America site by more than 550,000 historic newspaper pages published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Including titles like the Wenatchee Daily World (Wenatchee, WA), the Anti-Slavery Bugle (New-Lisbon, OH) and the Montana News (Lewiston, MT), these pages have been digitized from collections in Arizona, California, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. More than 4.7 million pages are now available online, published between 1836 and 1922.

Alabama, British Columbia, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, and North Carolina New Pages and Updates

Here are new pages and updates from mid-November 2011 to the present:

New Pages

British Columbia, Canada - with 26 titles from the University of British Columbia (free)

New Jersey - with six titles from the Millburn Free Public Library (free) and 41 titles from GenealogyBank ($)


Updates

Alabama - two new titles from Jacksonville State University (free) 

California - expanded dates for Evening Tribune (San Diego) from 1898-1933 to 1895-1933; title found at GenealogyBank ($)

Connecticut - one new title from Genealogy Bank ($)

Florida - expanded dates for Tampa Tribune from 1926-1933 to 1895-1933; title found at GenealogyBank ($)

Georgia - expanded dates for Augusta Chronicle from 1881 - 1917 to 1792-2003 and Marietta Journal from 1985 - 1988 to 1868 - 1998; both titles found at GenealogyBank ($)

Illinois - added Broad Axe for Chicago from GenealogyBank ($)


North Carolina - 17 new titles from the DigitalNC Collection (free); 14 new titles from GenealogyBank ($)

Canada - now with four out of 13 provinces and territories linked

United States - now with 47 out of 51 states and the District of Columbia linked. Only Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, and West Virginia remain. Yes, they have newspapers; I just haven't gotten to them yet!