Friday Finds in Newspapers: 11 December 2015

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:

• Tip: Don't Just Rely on the Search Function When Using Newspaper Databases by Christine Manczuk at Ancestry Island
• The British Newspaper Archive celebrates its 4th birthday by Holly at FindMyPast Blog - make sure to watch the video!
• Digital Newspapers Provide Genealogy Surprises by Lee Drew at FamHist
• Have You Looked in All Newspapers? by Michael John Neill at Genealogy Tip of the Day
• Troy Irish Genealogy Website adds Death Notices Appearing in Troy, NY Newspapers 1797 – 1860 by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• More than 200,000 WWI-period Saskatchewan newspaper pages digitized by Gail Dever at Genealogy à la carte
• National Digital Newspaper Program by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• The Europeana Newspapers Project Now Has 20+ Million Newspaper Pages Available Online by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Also:

• 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.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 16 October 2015

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:

• University of Manitoba’s digital archives contain newspapers, military, and prairie history by Gail Dever at Genealogy à la carte
• Chronicling America @ 10 Million Pages! at the Chronicling America Blog
• Did Your Great-Great Grandparents Date Through the Newspaper by the Ancestry Team at the Ancestry Blog
• You Can't Close Newspapers by Michael John Neill at Genealogy Tip of the Day

Also:

• 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.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 25 September 2015

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:

• Brazilian Newspaper Diario de Pernambuc – November 1825 - September 1924 – Now Digitized by Leland Meitzler at GenealogyBlog
• Updated: Richard Heaton’s Index to Digitalised British and Irish Newspapers Online by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• Poughkeepsie Journal Newspapers are now Online by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• Lamar University Newspapers 1933-2015 Posted Online by Leland Meitzler at GenealogyBlog

Also:

• 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.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 4 September 2015

Recently, I found the following articles and items regarding historic newspapers:

• Ancestry Collaborates with Gannett to Digitally Archive More Than 80 U.S. Newspapers by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter  - includes The Cincinnati Enquirer, Detroit Free Press, The Arizona Republic, The Indianapolis Star, The Tennessean and many others
• 2015 NDNP Awards Announced - Wisconsin and Delaware Join the Program! from the Chronicling America blog
• Google Custom Search for English Newspapers by Dick Eastman of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - a customized Google search engine that will search the major newspapers in England
• Taking Clues From Your Ancestor’s Ethnicity by Amy Johnson Crow at the Ancestry blog - an article from a year ago, but very pertinent and useful
• More than century of Centenary online from the Shreveport Times - college student newspapers from Centenary College
• The Dublin Gazette from 1750-1800 online by John D. Reid at Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections
• Connecticut State Library Receives New Grant for Newspaper Digitization from the Connecticut State Library
• Genealogy With Janice: Small town newspapers are a boon for family historian by Janice Nickerson at Inside Toronto
• Digital database breathes new life into newspaper archives by Venesa Brashier at Your Houston News
• How to Research Legal Notices in Newspapers for Genealogy by Gena Philibert-Ortega at the GenealogyBank blog
• Not fade away... how robots are preserving our old newspapers by Nicola Davis at The Guardian

Also:

• 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.

Chronicling America OFFLINE This Weekend

It's getting late; too late to post my Friday Finds in Newspapers, especially since I have an early beginning to my long day tomorrow.

I did want to post this notice that the Library of Congress sent out: all their websites, including Chronicling America, will be OFFLINE this weekend, while the Architect of the Library is performing maintenance.

They plan to be back online the evening of Sunday, August 30th.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 21 August 2015

Recently, I found the following articles and items regarding historic newspapers:

• Tuesday's Tip: Use AmericanAncestors.org to Access Two Early Newspaper Collections by Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings - this is an older, but helpful, article that I meant to include in Friday Finds a while ago
• Great news for Washington Digital Newspapers! by Nono Burling at the Washington State Library blog - "The Washington State Library has been awarded a Veridian Newspaper Conversion Grant to process and present up to 10,000 newspaper images from our Historic Newspapers Collection."
• Kalkaska County (Michigan) Library’s Digital Newspaper Archive by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - featuring issues of The Leader and Kalkaskian and predecessor newspapers, from 1879 to 2012
• 90 years of McGill student newspapers being uploaded to Internet Archive by Gail Dever at Genealogy à la carte - student newspapers of McGill University in Montreal from 1911 to 2011
• Free Online Search: Digitized Welsh Newspapers by Diane Haddad at Genealogy Insider - "The National Library of Wales has updated its free Welsh Newspapers Online website with a new look and 400,000 pages from newspapers published between 1804 and 1919."
• The very best newspaper website for my genealogy is... by Paula Stuart-Warren at Genealogy by Paula - excellent advice, the same which I tell my students in my class, Finding Your Ancestors in Historical Newspapers
• Newspaper Searches Days Before the Death by Michael John Neill at Genealogy Tip of the Day - great tip, and I highly recommend subscribing to this free blog!

Also:

• The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 227 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and West Australia.
• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 45 of its titles with more content from Idaho, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
• The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program has added 24 titles to its collection from the following cities: Albany, Astoria, Corvallis, Heppner, Hood River, Monmouth, Pendleton, Prineville, Roseburg, Salem, and St. Helens.
• Findmypast has added two new titles to and updated several others from its historic Irish Newspapers collection. These include the Missionary Herald of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Tyrone Constitution, and the Dublin Evening Mail. They have also added 11 new titles to their British Newspapers collection, including the Glasgow Sentinel, Lincolnshire Advertiser, Kentish Advertiser, Sheffield Iris, and the Yorkshire Early Bird. In addition, they have updated the Newcastle Journal and the Birmingham Daily Gazette.
• The Digital Library of Georgia has added the Southern Voice, the newspaper of Kennesaw State University, to its collections. The issues range from 1988 to 2010,
• The Chicago Tribune is providing a text-searchable archive of past issues from 1849 through 1991. These may eventually go being a subscription wall, so search them now!

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 17 July 2015

Recently, I found the following articles and items regarding historic newspapers:

• How To Save Articles, And Things From Google News Archive, a handy video at YouTube - I get emails all the time asking how to do this!
• Preserving and Digitizing Newspapers by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• Savannah Historic Newspapers Expansion by Donnie Summerlin at The DLG (Digital Library of Georgia) Blog
• Battle Creek Enquirer Digitized Images Strikes Again! by Brenda Leyndyke at Journey to the Past
• List of links to online BC and New Brunswick newspapers updated by Gail Dever at Genealogy à la carte
• Historic Oregon Newspapers Online: Available and Forthcoming Titles at the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program blog

Also:

• The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated several hundred of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from all six states, the Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory.
• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 56 of its titles with more content from Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
• The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program has added 11 titles to its collection from the cities of Albany, Astoria, Heppner, Hood River, Monmouth, Pendleton, Salem, and Spray.
• Since March, GenealogyBank has added 444 new historical digitized titles and updated 46 historical digital titles with more content. They have also added transcribed obituaries from 78 new non-digitized, current newspapers. These include newspapers from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
• In February, the Fulton (New York) Postcard Old Newspaper site updated its digitized collection with 105 titles. These include 62 titles from New York, as well as titles from Arkansas, California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and the country of Sierra Leone.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 17 April 2015

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:

• Hidden Gems in Newspapers - I Hit the Jackpot on This Website by Diane Gould Hall at Michigan Family Trails
• Who Do You Think You Are? Recap with America Ferrera: Good News About Newspapers by Jessica Murray at the Ancestry.com blog
• Great Read: "How Fast It Grew": Old Photos of Valley's Birth and Boom by Hailey Branson-Potts at the Los Angeles Times - an online photo collection from the now-defunct (Los Angeles) Valley Times
• International Newspaper Links by Angela McGhie at Adventures in Genealogy Education

Also:

• The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 34 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria.

US, Australia, and Canada Updates

Florida - four new titles for Lauderdale County from Google News Archive

Idaho - one new title from the Library of Congress

Illinois - one new and one updated title from the Library of Congress

Iowa - four new titles for Wayne County from Advantage-Preservation; 25 new titles for Appanoose County from Advantage-Preservation

Louisiana - three new titles from the Library of Congress

Minnesota - 26 new titles from the Library of Congress

Mississippi - 22 new titles from the Library of Congress

Nebraska - three new titles from North Bend Public Library

New Jersey - corrected two links to New Brunswick Free Public Library; added two new links from Rockaway Township Public Library

New York - corrected 84 links to New York State Historic Newspapers from old Northern New York Historical Newspapers and Rochester Regional Library Council site

Oregon - eight new and four updated titles from the Library of Congress; 20 new and eight updated titles from Historic Oregon Newspapers

Virginia - one new title from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Washington - removed link to Seattle Post-Intelligencer, pending updated info from webmaster

Wisconsin - three new titles for Milwaukee from Google News Archive

Tasmania - corrected the spelling of Launceston; also updated range of dates for Examiner

Ontario - one new title from Google News Archive

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 10 April 2015

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:

• State Not Archiving Newspapers by Lauren Mills at IowaWatch
• Troy (New York) Irish Genealogy Society Adds Marriage Notices Appearing in Lansingburgh Newspapers 1787 – 1895 by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• Please Copy by Michael John Neill at Genealogy Tip of the Day

Also:

• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 32 of its titles with more content from Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, and West Virginia.
• The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 70 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 27 March 2015

Recently, I found the following article regarding historic newspapers:

• Troy (New York) Irish Genealogy Society Adds Marriage Notices Appearing in Lansingburgh Newspapers 1787 – 1895 by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Also:

• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 10 of its titles with more content from Idaho, North Dakota, and South Carolina.
• The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 25 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, and Victoria.
• The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program has added one title to its collection, Spilyay Tymoo, the current newspaper of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 20 March 2015 (A Day Late)

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:

• Extra, Extra, Read All About It --- The Detroit News SUBJECT Index Cards are Now Online at SeekingMichigan.org by LE at MCGG and Let's Talk...Genealogy
• New additions to BAnQ’s online newspapers collection by Gail Dever at Genealogy à la carte
• The focus for The Genealogy Guys Podcast #285 was Newspaper Research. This podcast is hosted by George G. Morgan and Drew Smith. Go here for more information on how to listen to a podcast.
• Now Online: Death Notices Appearing in Lansingburgh, New York, Newspapers 1787 – 1895 by Dick Eastman of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• Ancestry.com Launches Genealogy Website for Searching Irish Newspapers by Tyler at GenealogyInsider
• But WE know… by Judy G. Russell at The Legal Genealogist
• In search of the Eatonville Dispatch by Shawn Schollmeyer at Between the Lines (Washington State Library Blog)
• Milford (Michigan) Times Obituary Index 1929-1949 is now Online by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Also:

• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 17 of its titles with more content from Mississippi.
• The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 35 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, and Victoria.
• GenealogyBank added 31 new titles and updated 11 titles with more content. These include newspapers from Alabama, California, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington
• March 16 was the 188th anniversary of the founding of the first black newspaper in the United States, Freedom's Journal, which was published in New York City.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 13 March 2015

Recently, I found the following article regarding historic newspapers:

• Women's History Month 2015: Newspapers by Gena Philibert-Ortega at Gena's Genealogy - Gena points out that while it may be difficult to research our female ancestors, historical newspapers make it easier.

Also:

• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated two of its titles with more content from Ohio.
• The National Library of Australia's Trove has update  eight of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from Queensland, Tasmania, and Victoria.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 6 March 2015

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:

• Checking Out Chicago’s Old German Newspapers by Julie Cahill Tarr at Julie's Genealogy & History Hub - Got Germans? Got Germans in German newspapers with German script? Check this out!
• How to Search for Old Newspaper Articles in the Google News Archive by Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers - a handy video tutorial
• North Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive by Donnie Summerlin at the blog of the Digital Library of Georgia - "The North Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to six newspaper titles published in three north Georgia cities (Dalton, Gainesville, and Rome) from 1850 to 1922." Click on the link to read more.
• Bill Silver Digital Newspaper Archive by Gail Dever at Genealogy à la carte - for those of us with British Columbia, Canada ancestors and relatives
• Four early newspapers added to historic collection by Sam Thompson at From Our Corner (the Washington Office of the Secretary of State’s blog) - titles from Anacortes, Oroville, Shelton, and Yakima

Also:

• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 34 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Washington.
• The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 36 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Victoria.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 20 February 2015

The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated seven of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from Connecticut, Louisiana, Montana, Oregon, South Carolina, and West Virginia.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 6 February 2015

The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 29 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oregon.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 16 January 2015

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:

• Findmypast releases...new additions to their collection of British Newspapers: press release at GeneaPress
• Digital Newspapers May Index Unindexed Court Records by Michael John Neill at Genealogy Tip of the Day
• Newspaper Research: The Importance of Being Thorough by Debbie Mieszala at The Advancing Genealogist
• Perkins County, Nebraska, Newspaper Digitization Project is being Expanded by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• Google Brings Back The Google News Archives by Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable
• Newspaper Research Strategies Boot Camp – Saturday, 31 January 2015 by Thomas MacEntee at Hack Genealogy - Do you live in Australia and New Zealand and want to attend a really good webinar on newspaper research with awesome presenters? It's a great price, too! Don't know what a webinar is or how to attend one? Read my tutorial here.

Also:

• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 22 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, and South Carolina. 
• The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program has updated one of its titles with more content.