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.

Alberta, California, Hawaii, Iowa, Illinois, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and West Virginia New Pages and Updates

While I have not posted updates to this blog since April, it does NOT mean I have not updated the site. On the contrary, I was very busy this summer posting new titles to the site. However, this fall, I started to have some familiar shoulder pain, and sure enough, I became a candidate once again, for rotator cuff surgery, this time on my right shoulder. I had the surgery on December 19th, and am still very much in the early stages of recovery. However, I can type one-handed, slowly, and so I decided that now was as good a time as any to inform you of the new titles and updates that were posted this past year.


New Pages

Alberta - with one title from NewspaperArchive


Updates

California - one new title from NewspaperArchive, and two from Google News Archive; corrected info on one title from Google News Archive

Hawaii - nine new titles from Library of Congress; expanded dates on three titles from Library of Congress

Iowa - two new titles from Library of Congress

Illinois - one new title from Library of Congress

Michigan - seven new titles from Library of Congress

Minnesota - two new titles from City of Brainerd

Montana - three new titles from GenealogyBank, 17 from Google News Archives, 21 from Library of Congress, 13 from Montana Memory Project, and 24 from NewspaperArchive

New Jersey - three from Cranford Public Library, two from Joint Digital Archives of Fanwood and Scotch Plains, two from New Brunswick Public Libray, ten from Rahway Public Library, two from Sadie Pope Dowdell Public Library, three from South Plainfield Public Library, and nine from Woodbridge Public Library

Oregon - four new titles from Ancestry, one from the City of Rainier, six from Gale's 19th Century U.S. Newspaper Collection, nine from GenealogyBank, 23 from Google News Archive, 65 from Historic Oregon Newspapers, 23 from Library of Congress, four from NewspaperArchive, 14 from SmallTownPapers, and one from the University of Oregon Libraries; expanded dates for one title from Library of Congress. At this point, Oregon's page is as complete as I am aware it can be!

Pennsylvania - seven new titles from LancasterHistory and one from Internet Archive (via LancasterHistory)

Texas - 29 new titles from Library of Congress, and two from University of North Texas Libraries; expanded dates for one title from Library of Congress

Washington - removed link to Tri-City Herald after determining it is no longer offered through Google News Archive

West Virginia - two new titles from Library of Congress

Manitoba - for some reason, this page was not linked to the Canada page, so the public didn't have access to it, unless they knew the direct link. Fixed. Added one title from University of Manitoba.

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

Recent Updates and New Pages for Titles Digitized by the LOC

I recently checked the Library of Congress' (LOC) Chronicling America website and found there were numerous titles I needed to update (the availability of years for a particular title) or add to my website. Corrections are where I've found errors in my original listings and made the necessary changes

New Pages:

Kansas - with five titles from LOC

Oklahoma - with one title from LOC

Oregon - with one title from LOC


Updates:

United States - now with 24 out of 50 states plus the District of Columbia linked

Arizona - 10 new and four expanded titles from LOC

California - one new, two expanded, and one corrected title from LOC

District of Columbia - three new, six expanded and one corrected title from LOC

Hawai`i - eight new titles from LOC

Illinois - one title from LOC - this is a new state for Chronicling America titles!

Kentucky - four new, 10 expanded, and four corrected titles from LOC; also two new and three corrected titles from Kentuckiana Digital Library

Missouri - three new titles from LOC

New York - one new and one expanded title from LOC

Ohio - nine new and one corrected title from LOC

Pennsylvania - two new and one expanded title from LOC

Texas - one expanded title from LOC

Utah - four new, two expanded, and one corrected title from LOC

Virginia - seven new and one expanded title from LOC

Washington - seven new and one expanded title from LOC

Adding Links Not Available to Public

My experiment failed. To my knowledge, it is not possible for the public to add their comments to pages on my website. I apologize for the inconvenience. From my perspective, when I was signed in as webmaster, it looked like once comments were enabled, anyone could comment. Unfortunately, it is only the webmaster and approved collaborators (such as Thomas) that can do so.

So I removed the comments that said "Please list your links below". I kept the comments I put up that listed links to other newspaper sites until we can get them all properly placed on the pages. There are a number for Illinois and Pennsylvania that I listed this morning in the comments sections at the bottom of the pages.

Thank you for your patience and your patronage.  Happy Hunting!