Wyoming Newspaper Project Now Complete

I received the following from the Erin Kinney, Digital Initiatives Librarian at the Wyoming State Library:

On December 15th, the Wyoming Newspaper Project reached a milestone--the last reel from the last drive was loaded.  That drive had 44 supplemental microfilm reels, and over 21,000 new pages.  The Wyoming Newspaper Project now has 791,764 full pages loaded.  Much of the new content fills in gaps in coverage, but there are many new titles as well.  Unfortunately, for many of the new titles, only a handful of issues survived to be microfilmed and added to this project.

The Wyoming Newspaper Project now has all of the newspaper microfilm reels for 1849-1922 that the Wyoming State Archives has in their collection.  We are aware that there are gaps in coverage and newspaper titles that are not included in the project.  We are building a list of newspaper titles and years that we know about through researchers like you, to be on the look out for to see if we can add them to the collection.  We have partnered with the Library of Congress to scan and microfilm the Wyoming newspapers that are in their collection, so look for those in the coming months.

Also, if you find anything amiss (a page that is mislabeled, search highlights not working, trouble getting a search to work or a page to print) feel free to contact me. [erin.kinney@wyo.gov]

Note from Miriam: I have not yet updated the Wyoming page of the Online Historical Newspapers site yet, so if you think there is a title from the Wyoming Newspaper Project that is not showing, just go directly to that site itself.

South Dakota and Wisconsin New Pages

Here are the latest new pages:

South Dakota - with eight titles from GenealogyBank

Wisconsin - with one title from The Timber News

Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, and Wyoming Updates

Here are updates from late August to the present:

United States - two new states added (South Dakota and Wisconsin), bringing the total to 45 out of 50 states

Alabama - four new titles from Birmingham Public Library; 19 new titles from GenealogyBank

California - three new titles from the Torrence Public Library; one expanded and five new titles from GenealogyBank

Colorado - two new titles from GenealogyBank


Connecticut - one new title from GenealogyBank

Florida - one new title from GenealogyBank

Georgia - one new title from GenealogyBank

Idaho - one new title from GenealogyBank

Illinois - three new titles from GenealogyBank

Indiana - six new titles from Switzerland County High School

Missouri - four new titles from the Southeast Missourian

North Carolina - one new title from the DigitalNC Collection

Wyoming - four new titles from GenealogyBank

Kansas Historical Society to Digitize 100,000 Pages of Newspapers

 From the Topeka Capital-Journal:

Kansas has been awarded additional funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue its participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program, according to Kansas Historical Society officials.

As a result, the Kansas Historical Society will digitize an additional 100,000 pages of Kansas newspapers, dating from 1836-1922.

Read the rest of the article here.

NEH Announces $3.8 Million for 2011 NDNP Awards, Including Three New States

 From the Library of Congress:

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced on July 27, 2011 awards totaling $3.8 million to 13 institutions representing their states in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Three of these institutions - Indiana State Library, State Historical Society of North Dakota, and the West Virginia University Research Corporation - are new to the program this year. Ten other institutions - the University of Illinois-Urbana, Kansas State Historical Society, University of Kentucky-Lexington, Louisiana State University, Minnesota Historical Society, Montana Historical Society, Oklahoma Historical Society, University of South Carolina, and the University of North Texas - have received continuing awards to contribute additional content to the program. This funding will support the selection and digitization of historic American newspapers published between 1836 and 1922 by each participating state, according to NDNP guidelines. The Library of Congress (LC) will make these newspapers available to the public through the Chronicling America Website (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov) beginning in mid-2012. In all, 28 states have institutions participating in the program.

NDNP, a partnership between the NEH and the LC, is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of all U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. The NEH grant program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories.

I'm a Guest on GeneaBloggers Talk Radio!

I'm honored to be one of two guests being interviewed on Thomas MacEntee's GeneaBloggers Talk Radio tonight, Friday the 12th, from 7:00 to 8:00 PM, PDT. The topic will be "Read All About It! Newspapers as Genealogy Resources." The other guest will be Thomas J. Kemp, of GenealogyBank and ObitsArchive. I'll be highlighting my Online Historical Newspapers website. You can listen online, call in (number is listed in the link below), and/or chat with other listeners on the site. If you can't make it, you can come back and listen later. The link to the show is here. Come join us!

News from Google News Archive and Chronicling America

 Google News Archive is ending their newspaper digitization project:

We work closely with newspaper partners on a number of initiatives, and as part of the Google News Archives digitization program we collaborated to make older newspapers accessible and searchable online. These have included publications like the London Advertiser in 1895, L’Ami du Lecteur at the turn of the century, and the Milwaukee Sentinel from 1910 to 1995.

Users can continue to search digitized newspapers at http://news.google.com/archivesearch, but we don’t plan to introduce any further features or functionality to the Google News Archives and we are no longer accepting new microfilm or digital files for processing. [Hat tip to John D. Reid of Anglo-Celtic Connections]

A link to browse individual historical titles is at http://news.google.com/newspapers, and from there you can search the individual newspaper. I will continue to add these titles to my Online Historical Newspapers website. It does take time, and I am currently nearly finished with the titles beginning with the letter A.

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Meanwhile, the Library of Congress' Chronicling America project continues in full swing:

Last week, the Library of Congress updated the Chronicling America Web site with more than 230,000 additional newspaper pages in various titles. The site now provides access to more than 3.7 million searchable newspaper pages from 506 newspaper titles, published in 22 states and the District of Columbia between 1860 and 1922.

These titles are also being added and updated on my site. Keeps me busy!

México and Ciudad de México New Pages

Here are the new pages of links to Mexico Online Historical Newspapers:

Mexico - with one out of 31 states and one federal district linked

Ciudad de México - with one new link to Google News Archive

Australia, Australia Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Terrritory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia New Pages

Here are the new pages of links to Australia Online Historical Newspapers:

Australia - with eight out of nine states/territories linked

Australia Capital Territory - with two new titles from Australia Trove

New South Wales - with 24 new titles from Australia Trove

Northern Territory - with seven new titles from Australia Trove

Queensland - with 13 new titles from Australia Trove

South Australia - with nine new titles from Australia Trove

Tasmania - with 14 new titles from Australia Trove

Victoria - with one new title from Google News Archive and three new titles from Australia Trove

Western Australia - with 11 new titles from Australia Trove

Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Québec New Pages

Here are the new pages of links to Canada Online Historical Newspapers:

Canada - with three out of 13 provinces/territories linked

New Brunswick - with one title from Google News Archive

Nova Scotia - with one title from Google News Archive

Ontario - with one title from Google News Archive

Québec - with 29 titles from Google News Archive

Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Washington New Pages and Updates

I have been adding quite a bit of links to the website the past four months, but have not taken the time to list the new pages and updates. It really is amazing how many digitized newspapers are out there, and how quickly various institutions, organizations, and businesses are adding more and more to the Internet each week!

New Pages

Idaho - with three titles from Google News Archive

Indiana - with two titles from Google News Archive

Iowa - with six titles from Google News Archive

Rhode Island - with one new title from Google News Archive


Updates

Alabama - one new title from Google News Archive

Arizona - updated three titles from the Library of Congress with more years of coverage; added two new titles from the Library of Congress, and one new title from Google News Archive

Florida - one new title from the University of Florida and three new titles from Google News Archive

Georgia - one new title from Google News Archive

Illinois -  one new title from Google News Archive

Kansas - 13 new titles from the Library of Congress and 39 new titles from GenealogyBank

Louisiana - five new titles from Google News Archive

Maryland - six new titles from Google News Archive

Michigan -28 new titles: one from the Commerical Record, seven from Google News Archive, 13 from GenealogyBank, two from Footnote, one from the Salem-South Lyon Digital Archives, two from the Rawson Memorial Library, one from the Making of Modern Michigan, and one from the Ann Arbor District Library

Montana -  two new titles from Google News Archive

North Carolina - three new titles from Google News Archive

Ohio - one new title from Google News Archive

Oklahoma - three new titles from Google News Archive

Pennsylvania - three new titles from Google News Archive

Texas - one new title from Google News Archive

Washington - one new title from Google News Archive