Newspapers Online for Your Family Quest

Googling for Community Newspapers

Search by the state, county, or community or include keyword such as “newspaper.”

For example: Grand Junction Colorado + newspaper

Library of Congress List of News and Periodical Resources on the Web:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/lists.html

Library of Congress Newspapers in Microform, United States (1948-1983): the years cited are when they compiled the list – NOT the years of the historic newspapers included.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/news_research_tools/newspapersinmf.html

Online Catalogs

National Endowment for the Humanities U.S. Newspaper Program

http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html

Family History Library – go to “Library Catalog” and search by Place

http://www.familysearch.org

Denver Public Library

http://denverlibrary.org/

Allen County Public Library

http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/

Ways to Find Historic Newspapers Online

For a fee – search by either name or date or both

Proquest articles include text only – no photographs.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution 1869-current:

http://www.ajc.com/ historic archives and obituary archives are separate.

Boston Globe 1872-current:

http://search.boston.com/local/Historic.do

Chicago Tribune Archives 1852-current:

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/advancedsearch.html

Christian Science Monitor 1908-current:

http://www.csmonitor.com/search

Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 1764-current:

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/advancedsearch.html

Los Angeles Times Archives 1881- current:

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/search.html

New York Times:

www.nytimes.com

Washington Post Archives 1877- current:

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/search.html

By State – Newspapers, archives & historical societies

Alabama

http://www.archives.state.al.us/newsp/newsp.html

Alaska

http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist/hist.html

Arizona

http://www.lib.az.us/anp/

Arkansas

http://www.ark-ives.com/

http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/

California

http://www.library.ca.gov/calhist/genealogy.html

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/

Colorado

http://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/

http://www.coloradohistory.org/chs_library/library.htm

Connecticut

http://www.cslib.org/cnp.htm

http://www.chs.org/

Delaware

http://www.hsd.org

http://www.state.de.us/sos/dpa

Florida

http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/

Georgia

http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/

Hawaiian language

http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/newspapers.htm

Idaho

http://www.idahohistory.net

Illinois

http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/inp

Indiana

http://www.in.gov/library/

http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy

Iowa

http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/

Kansas

http://www.kshs.org/

Kentucky

http://216.68.116.14:8081/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=main#focus

http://history.ky.gov

http://www.filsonhistorical.org/library.html

Louisiana

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/lnp.html

Maine

http://www.library.umaine.edu/

http://www.mainehistory.com

Maryland

http://www.msa.md.gov/

Massachusetts

http://www.bpl.org/

http://www.state.ma.us/sec/arc/arcidx.htm

Massachusetts – Boston Pilot 1821—1921 Missing Irish

http://infowanted.bc.edu/

Michigan

http://www.michigan.gov/hal

http://bentley.umich.edu/

Minnesota

http://www.mnhs.org/

Mississippi

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/

Missouri

http://shs.umsystem.edu/index.shtml

Montana

http://www.his.state.mt.us/

Nebraska

http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.htm

Nevada

http://nevadaculture.org/docs/nsla/

New Hampshire

http://www.nhhistory.org

New Jersey

http://www.state.nj.us/state/darm

New Mexico

http://elibrary.unm.edu/cswr

http://www.cabq.gov/library/specol.html

New York

http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/

https://www.nyhistory.org/web/

New York – Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841 - 1902

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/

Northern New York – several papers

http://news.nnyln.net/

North Carolina

http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/

North Dakota

http://www.nd.gov/hist/

Ohio

http://www.ohiohistory.org/index.html

Ohio – Cincinnati

http://newsdex.cincinnatilibrary.org/

Oklahoma

http://users.icnet.net/~frizzell/ohspage.html

Oklahoma, Tulsa, death notices from 1989 to present

www.tulsalibrary.org/deathnotice/

Oregon

http://www.ohs.org

Pennsylvania

http://www.statelibrary.state.pa.us/libraries/cwp/view.asp?a=2&q=40127

Rhode Island

http://www.rihs.org/

South Carolina

http://www.southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org/

South Dakota

http://www.sdhistory.org/

Tennessee

http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/

Texas

http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/

Utah

http://history.utah.gov

Utah – Deseret News Deaths, Marriages 1852-1876

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~utsaltla/obit_DeseretNews_1850s.html

Utah – several papers

http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews/

Vermont

http://www.dol.state.vt.us/

Virginia

http://www.lva.lib.va.us

Virginia – Fairfax County News Index – several papers

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/newsindex/default.asp

Washington

http://www.secstate.wa.gov/library/

West Virginia

http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvsamenu.html

Wisconsin News Articles

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/

Wyoming

http://wyoarchives.state.wy.us/

Other Free Newspaper Sites

Free and amusing, but does not have an extensive collection

http://www.theoldentimes.com/

For links to current newspapers

www.onlinenewspapers.com

Historic Newspaper Collection Subscription Sites

These are improving all the time, but they are incomplete, and there is considerable overlap between the various sites.

www.ancestry.com available at FHC and public libraries

www.worldvitalrecords.com available at FHC

www.genealogybank.com

www.newspaperarchive.com

http://www.accessible.com/accessible/