Wyoming Newspaper Project Down Temporarily

I received the following message from Erin Kinney, Digital Initiatives Librarian of the Wyoming State Library:

This Friday, June 28, the Wyoming Newspaper Project will be down for a few hours starting in the evening, possibly into Saturday.  We are moving the newspapers to a new set of drives, ones that will be more stable, so we will no longer have those aggravating "Bad File Location" errors.  The data copying has already started, but the final switch will happen Friday evening.  Hopefully it will be fast with no problems.

Wyoming Newspaper Project Now Complete

I received the following from the Erin Kinney, Digital Initiatives Librarian at the Wyoming State Library:

On December 15th, the Wyoming Newspaper Project reached a milestone--the last reel from the last drive was loaded.  That drive had 44 supplemental microfilm reels, and over 21,000 new pages.  The Wyoming Newspaper Project now has 791,764 full pages loaded.  Much of the new content fills in gaps in coverage, but there are many new titles as well.  Unfortunately, for many of the new titles, only a handful of issues survived to be microfilmed and added to this project.

The Wyoming Newspaper Project now has all of the newspaper microfilm reels for 1849-1922 that the Wyoming State Archives has in their collection.  We are aware that there are gaps in coverage and newspaper titles that are not included in the project.  We are building a list of newspaper titles and years that we know about through researchers like you, to be on the look out for to see if we can add them to the collection.  We have partnered with the Library of Congress to scan and microfilm the Wyoming newspapers that are in their collection, so look for those in the coming months.

Also, if you find anything amiss (a page that is mislabeled, search highlights not working, trouble getting a search to work or a page to print) feel free to contact me. [erin.kinney@wyo.gov]

Note from Miriam: I have not yet updated the Wyoming page of the Online Historical Newspapers site yet, so if you think there is a title from the Wyoming Newspaper Project that is not showing, just go directly to that site itself.

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

Wyoming New Page

I've just added a page for the state of Wyoming, with 186 titles from the Wyoming Newspaper Project! This makes 25 out of 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, that are now linked from the United States page!