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.

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!