Saturday, August 5, 2017

Online Historical Newspapers One of Family Tree Magazine's 101 Best Websites!


I'm thrilled and honored to announce that Family Tree Magazine has selected the Online Historical Newspapers site as one of its 101 Best Websites for 2017! The Online Historical Newspaper site was listed with four other sites in the "Old Newspaper Genealogy Sites" category.

All 101 Best Websites for 2017 will be featured in the September issue of Family Tree Magazine, but you can visit them now at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/article/101-best-websites-2017. The September issue will be available August 15 at select newsstands nationwide and online at https://www.shopfamilytree.com. By the way, all 101 sites highlighted this year are free, and not subscription sites!

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Saturday, November 5, 2016

Genealogy Bank Newspaper Archives by State

For the past year and a half or so, Toni Pettinato has been posting about newspaper archives by state at the blog of my favorite newspaper subscription website, GenealogyBank. Since GenealogyBank has digitized historical newspapers and modern transcribed obituaries from every state in the union, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, there is plenty of information in each of these posts.

Below is the current list of links to the posts, alphabetically by state. I encourage you to check these out, and if any seem of interest, consider a subscription. You can choose a 30-day trial for $9.95, or choose a monthly ($19.95) or annual ($69.95) subscription. I have found their website easy to search and navigate, and download relevant articles and whole pages. I enjoy access to the most up-to-date Social Security Death Index online, as well as historical books and documents (non-newspapers). And, as always, you can read their informative blog anytime, for free, with tips on how to best search newspapers and locate information to help you in your genealogical research.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Alabama Online Historical Newspapers Page Updated and Complete!


The Alabama Online Historical Newspapers page has recently been updated and is complete (for the time being!). It now contains links to every known complete online digitized newspaper for Alabama, covering the years 1813 to 2016, and featuring 134 titles from 43 communities in 35 of Alabama's 67 counties. These digitized newspapers are located in 15 resources (5 subscription, 10 free), including ADAH Digital Collections, Alabama Mosaic, Ancestry, Birmingham Public Library, The Florala News, GenealogyBank, Google News Archive, Internet Archive, Jacksonville State University, the Library of Congress's Chronicling America, NewspaperArchive, Newspapers.com, Old Fulton NY Postcards, SmallTownPapers, and The Southern Courier. Check it out, and please share!

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Friday, December 11, 2015

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 11 December 2015



Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:
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  • The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 363 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia.
  • The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 40 of its titles with more content from Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), South Carolina, Tennessee. Vermont, and Virginia
  • In October and November, GenealogyBank added 18 new titles and updated 27 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from Arizona, California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin. Read details here and here.
  • The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program has added eight titles to its collection from the cities of Athena and Corvallis.

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Friday, October 16, 2015

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 16 October 2015



Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:
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  • The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 125 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia.
  • The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 12 of its titles with more content from the District of Columbia, Montana, and Tennessee.
  • In September, GenealogyBank added 11 new titles and updated 11 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from California, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. Read details here.
  • The Digital Library of Georgia has created a new resource, the West Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive, with six newspaper titles published in five west Georgia cities (Butler, Carrollton, Dallas, Douglasville, LaGrange) from 1843 to 1942. Read details here.
  • The Digital Library of Georgia has also re-released its South Georgia Historic Newspaper Archive so that it is compatible with all browsers. Details here.

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Friday, September 25, 2015

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 25 September 2015



Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:
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  • The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 121 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia.
  • The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 29 of its titles with more content from the District of Columbia, Indiana, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), Maryland, Nevada, South Carolina, and South Dakota.
  • In August, GenealogyBank added 10 new titles and updated 30 of its titles with more content. Read details here.

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Friday, September 4, 2015

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 4 September 2015



Recently, I found the following articles and items regarding historic newspapers:
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  • The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 86 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and West Australia.
  • The Library of Congress' Chronicling America (which is back online after a weekend of maintenance) has updated 15 of its titles with more content from the District of Columbia and Oregon.
  • In August, Findmypast added eight new titles to its Irish Newspaper Collection and 22 new titles to its British Newspaper Collection. They also updated many titles with more content in both collections.

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