Wednesday, December 26, 2012

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

Monday, July 16, 2012

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

Sunday, March 4, 2012

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.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

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!