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.

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!

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

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

Alaska, Michigan, North Carolina, and Ohio New Pages and Updates

New Pages:

Alaska - my newest state page is Alaska, with eight titles from GenealogyBank, 24 titles from NewspaperArchive, and one title from Tundra Times. This makes 26 states plus the District of Columbia that are now available for US papers.

Updates:

United States - now with 26 states plus the District of Columbia linked

Michigan - one new title from the Farmington Community Library

North Carolina - one new title from the Washington County, NCGenWeb site

Ohio - one new title from the Cleveland Jewish News