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I see that more digital newspapers will be coming online at the “Chronicling America” site soon. Now it’s New Mexico papers. Cool…
Following is an excerpt from an article in the August 16, 2010 edition of the Daily Lobo.
UNM Libraries received a more than $350,000 grant to resurrect hundreds of thousands of New Mexico [...]

According to an AP article currently circulating, the University of Tennessee will manage a project wherein about 2500 rolls of Tennessee newspapers on microfilm will be digitized and posted as part of the “Chronicling America” project. The project concentrates on papers published between 1836 and 1922.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ― A couple of years from now, [...]

I spotted an article in the paper today about my friend, Luana Darby, and her success using newspapers. The article has numerous online newspaper-related links. Following is a teaser.
PROVO, Utah — Professional genealogist Luana Darby was researching Madison Cheadle — the ancestor of a friend. But some things were not clear. Darby [...]

In two years, students, historians, and anyone else curious about nearly a century of history should have 100,000 pages of Tennessee newspapers at their fingertips. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize local newspapers from 1836 to 1922.
“This is telling what the people [...]

A snippet from another good article in the May 31, 2010 Deseret News:
It’s hard to say where the first obituary came from. The word comes from the Medieval Latin “obitus,” which means a going down, a fall, a ruin, a death.
But obituaries have pretty much always been linked with news.
After the popularization of the printing [...]

The following excerpt is from the May 5, 2010 edition of the Cherokeean Herald.

After four months of waiting, Mrs. Gonzalez and Singletary Memorial Library head librarian Amy Derrington received the news they had been waiting for: the library received a $60,288 grant through the Tocker Foundation for the digitization of microfilm of the Cherokeean Herald [...]

The following newspaper titles were recently added to the family history archives found in GenealogyBank.com and ObitsArchive.com. They recently added more than 104 newspapers from 35 states - over 130 million new articles.
ObitsArchive.com
NEW CONTENT: (1977 to present day)
CA-Mammoth Times
CO-Montrose Daily Press, The
CT-New Canaan News-Review
CT-Ridgefield Press, The
FL-Hernando Today
IA-Daily Democrat, The
ID-Independent Enterprise
IL-Macomb Journal
IL-Voice, The
IN-Indianapolis Recorder, The
IN-Pilot-News
MI-Shelby-Utica News
NC-Stanly [...]

I’m privileged to be speaking at the Virginia Beach Genealogical Society annual seminar this year. The program is on March 20, 2010, just 13 days from now. My lecture topics will be:

Organizing, Preserving, Accessing & Sharing Your Genealogy Using Digital Document & Pictures
Blogging Your Genealogy
USA State and Territorial Censuses & Substitutes
Using tax Records to Extend [...]

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 [...]