Alabama Online Historical Newspapers Page Updated and Complete!

The Alabama Online Historical Newspapers page has recently been updated and is complete (for the time being!). It now contains links to every known complete online digitized newspaper for Alabama, covering the years 1813 to 2016, and featuring 134 titles from 43 communities in 35 of Alabama's 67 counties. These digitized newspapers are located in 15 resources (5 subscription, 10 free), including ADAH Digital Collections, Alabama Mosaic, Ancestry, Birmingham Public Library, The Florala News, GenealogyBank, Google News Archive, Internet Archive, Jacksonville State University, the Library of Congress's Chronicling America, NewspaperArchive, Newspapers.com, Old Fulton NY Postcards, SmallTownPapers, and The Southern Courier. Check it out, and please share!

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 11 December 2015

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:

• Tip: Don't Just Rely on the Search Function When Using Newspaper Databases by Christine Manczuk at Ancestry Island
• The British Newspaper Archive celebrates its 4th birthday by Holly at FindMyPast Blog - make sure to watch the video!
• Digital Newspapers Provide Genealogy Surprises by Lee Drew at FamHist
• Have You Looked in All Newspapers? by Michael John Neill at Genealogy Tip of the Day
• Troy Irish Genealogy Website adds Death Notices Appearing in Troy, NY Newspapers 1797 – 1860 by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• More than 200,000 WWI-period Saskatchewan newspaper pages digitized by Gail Dever at Genealogy à la carte
• National Digital Newspaper Program by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• The Europeana Newspapers Project Now Has 20+ Million Newspaper Pages Available Online by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Also:

• The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 363 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 40 of its titles with more content from Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), South Carolina, Tennessee. Vermont, and Virginia
• In October and November, GenealogyBank added 18 new titles and updated 27 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from Arizona, California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin. Read details here and here.
• The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program has added eight titles to its collection from the cities of Athena and Corvallis.

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.

Friday Finds in Newspapers: 25 September 2015

Recently, I found the following articles regarding historic newspapers:

• Brazilian Newspaper Diario de Pernambuc – November 1825 - September 1924 – Now Digitized by Leland Meitzler at GenealogyBlog
• Updated: Richard Heaton’s Index to Digitalised British and Irish Newspapers Online by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• Poughkeepsie Journal Newspapers are now Online by Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• Lamar University Newspapers 1933-2015 Posted Online by Leland Meitzler at GenealogyBlog

Also:

• The National Library of Australia's Trove has updated 121 of its titles with more content. These include newspapers from Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia.
• The Library of Congress' Chronicling America has updated 29 of its titles with more content from the District of Columbia, Indiana, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), Maryland, Nevada, South Carolina, and South Dakota.
• In August, GenealogyBank added 10 new titles and updated 30 of its titles with more content. Read details here.

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.

Chronicling America OFFLINE This Weekend

It's getting late; too late to post my Friday Finds in Newspapers, especially since I have an early beginning to my long day tomorrow.

I did want to post this notice that the Library of Congress sent out: all their websites, including Chronicling America, will be OFFLINE this weekend, while the Architect of the Library is performing maintenance.

They plan to be back online the evening of Sunday, August 30th.

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!