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: 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.

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, 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!