South Dakota and Wisconsin New Pages

Here are the latest new pages:

South Dakota - with eight titles from GenealogyBank

Wisconsin - with one title from The Timber News

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

Kansas Historical Society to Digitize 100,000 Pages of Newspapers

 From the Topeka Capital-Journal:

Kansas has been awarded additional funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue its participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program, according to Kansas Historical Society officials.

As a result, the Kansas Historical Society will digitize an additional 100,000 pages of Kansas newspapers, dating from 1836-1922.

Read the rest of the article here.

NEH Announces $3.8 Million for 2011 NDNP Awards, Including Three New States

 From the Library of Congress:

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced on July 27, 2011 awards totaling $3.8 million to 13 institutions representing their states in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Three of these institutions - Indiana State Library, State Historical Society of North Dakota, and the West Virginia University Research Corporation - are new to the program this year. Ten other institutions - the University of Illinois-Urbana, Kansas State Historical Society, University of Kentucky-Lexington, Louisiana State University, Minnesota Historical Society, Montana Historical Society, Oklahoma Historical Society, University of South Carolina, and the University of North Texas - have received continuing awards to contribute additional content to the program. This funding will support the selection and digitization of historic American newspapers published between 1836 and 1922 by each participating state, according to NDNP guidelines. The Library of Congress (LC) will make these newspapers available to the public through the Chronicling America Website (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov) beginning in mid-2012. In all, 28 states have institutions participating in the program.

NDNP, a partnership between the NEH and the LC, is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of all U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. The NEH grant program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories.

I'm a Guest on GeneaBloggers Talk Radio!

I'm honored to be one of two guests being interviewed on Thomas MacEntee's GeneaBloggers Talk Radio tonight, Friday the 12th, from 7:00 to 8:00 PM, PDT. The topic will be "Read All About It! Newspapers as Genealogy Resources." The other guest will be Thomas J. Kemp, of GenealogyBank and ObitsArchive. I'll be highlighting my Online Historical Newspapers website. You can listen online, call in (number is listed in the link below), and/or chat with other listeners on the site. If you can't make it, you can come back and listen later. The link to the show is here. Come join us!

News from Google News Archive and Chronicling America

 Google News Archive is ending their newspaper digitization project:

We work closely with newspaper partners on a number of initiatives, and as part of the Google News Archives digitization program we collaborated to make older newspapers accessible and searchable online. These have included publications like the London Advertiser in 1895, L’Ami du Lecteur at the turn of the century, and the Milwaukee Sentinel from 1910 to 1995.

Users can continue to search digitized newspapers at http://news.google.com/archivesearch, but we don’t plan to introduce any further features or functionality to the Google News Archives and we are no longer accepting new microfilm or digital files for processing. [Hat tip to John D. Reid of Anglo-Celtic Connections]

A link to browse individual historical titles is at http://news.google.com/newspapers, and from there you can search the individual newspaper. I will continue to add these titles to my Online Historical Newspapers website. It does take time, and I am currently nearly finished with the titles beginning with the letter A.

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Meanwhile, the Library of Congress' Chronicling America project continues in full swing:

Last week, the Library of Congress updated the Chronicling America Web site with more than 230,000 additional newspaper pages in various titles. The site now provides access to more than 3.7 million searchable newspaper pages from 506 newspaper titles, published in 22 states and the District of Columbia between 1860 and 1922.

These titles are also being added and updated on my site. Keeps me busy!

México and Ciudad de México New Pages

Here are the new pages of links to Mexico Online Historical Newspapers:

Mexico - with one out of 31 states and one federal district linked

Ciudad de México - with one new link to Google News Archive