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I got a note from my friend, Tom Kemp, this morning, apprising me of the fact that GenealogyBank.com is now up to over 280 African-American newspapers in their online offerings. The following is from the website:
This fully searchable and expanding collection of newspapers provides details about the daily lives of millions of African [...]

Tom Mooney wrote a good column for the Times Leader today. It included suggestions on how to go about locating online data for Northeastern Pennsylvania.
One important bit of information I got from the article is that The Sunday Independent, published in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania from 1906 through 1993, is digitized for the years 1913-1927 and is [...]

The National Library of Australia, using their Trove online database system, has posted the historic newspaper, The Argus, published in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The digitized newspaper runs from Vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 15, 1848) through about 1945. The newspaper itself ceased publication on January 19, 1957. Note that the headings and titling all say [...]

The following press release was received this morning from Ed Johnson. Although many resources available through Georgia’s Galileo program are available to Georgia residents only, these newspapers are available to all researchers by following the links below.
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the free online availability of three historic Georgia [...]

The editorial board of the Kalamazoo Gazette write an excellent editorial for National Newspaper Week entitled “Newspapers helped win Revolutionary War” I recommend it. Following is a teaser.
During the current National Newspaper Week, it’s especially appropriate to examine the impact that newspapers had on the success of the rebellion against the British.
Although [...]

The British Library, in affiliation with Gale (now owned by GENGAGE Learning) has made digital editions of forty-nine 19th-century British newspapers now available online. According to their press release, “every front page, editorial, birth and death notice, advertisement and classified ad that appeared within the pages of the selected papers is easily accessible [...]

Over several days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many new newspapers from 20 states. The majority of the papers posted the last few days are dated between 1915 and 1925. I note that some South Carolina papers were included this week. This is good stuff…
I am pleased to again announce that the folks at NewspaperARCHIVE.com appreciate what [...]

NewspaperARCHIVE.com has just added a FREE membership program that allows users to access up to three newspaper pages per day without spending any money at all! If you were to search every day, that’s about 90 pages per month! Of course, the hope is that users will like the service so much that [...]

In the last three days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many new newspapers. While compiling this list, I noticed that the time period of about 1925 through 1929 is prevalent in these posts. Eighteen states are represented this time around. Iowa is again the clear winner when it comes to numbers of papers represented. Hmmm… Have I [...]

There’s an interesting article posted online, written by Lydia Grimes of the Brewton Standard, that deals with the history of the funeral homes of Brewton, Alabama. Ms. Grimes realizes the historical and genealogical value of the local funeral homes, as well as the Brewton Standard newspaper. Check it out.

In the last four days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many turn of the century newspapers, as well as numerous papers from the World War I time period - up to about 1919. Eighteen states and one Canadian province are represented this time around. Iowa is again the clear winner when it comes to numbers of papers [...]

In the last four days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many turn of the century newspapers, as well as numerous papers from the 1870s and 1880s. Twenty-one states are represented this time around. Iowa is again the clear winner when it comes to numbers of papers represented.
I am pleased to again announce that the folks at [...]

The following digitized newspapers are either available or planned at GenealogyBank.com
According to Tom’s entry today at the GenealogyBank Blog, “in the months ahead GenealogyBank will be expanding it’s coverage of 9 newspapers from 9 states.”
The dates of this planned coverage follow each of the titles below. The second date is what is [...]

In the last four days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many turn of the century newspapers. Seventeen states and one Canadian province are represented this time around. Iowa is again the clear winner when it comes to numbers of papers represented. I note that they are also posting turn-of-the-century Valdez, as well as Fairbanks, Alaska papers.
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In the last three days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many newspapers from the 1880s & 1890s. Seventeen states and one Canadian province is represented this time around. Iowa is again the clear winner when it comes to numbers of papers represented. I note that they are posting turn-of-the-century Valdez, Alaska papers - and my next posting will [...]