In February 2017, I started publishing a list of the catalog of online historical newspapers from over 400 different collections put together by the Advantage Archives Company, developed in conjunction with the libraries, historical societies, and museums across the U.S. that preserve historical newspapers for their communities. The list has grown a lot since then. Now there are over 990 collections – a 145% percent growth in six years. To see the latest complete list, click on 100 Million Historic U.S. Newspaper Pages Now Available from Advantage Archives Here are the new County and Library ..read more

Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to obituary information and transcriptions of obituaries from newspapers have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the scanned newspaper clipping is included. And remember you can always find online historical newspapers to search for obituaries for free on this website (links at Newspaper Links). Here are a few articles that may be helpful:  How to Find Historical Obitua ..read more

One of the main goals for genealogists is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information, and more importantly – information about the relatives of the deceased’s family and extended family. This family name information is often not found anywhere else. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to obituary information and transcriptions of obituaries from newspapers have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide ..read more

After over a decade of availability, the Library of Congress (LOC) has upgraded the user interface for Chronicling America. It now incorporates the standard LOC search and results interface, which includes Results Filtering. It is available now (they still call it a Beta release) and my summary review is as follows: The addition of Results Filtering is in a word – “Fantastic”. The old version provided no results filtering, which is a real boon to researchers. The Basic Search is accurately named. It has less capability than the old version. But I have always recommended and still do, to use ..read more

Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 88 million pages currently. They power California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Virginia,  Washington, and Wyoming state newspaper collections. And country-wide collections, such as Estonia, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, and Switzerland. Veridian is the name of the software and service package created by DL Consulting,  headquartered in Hamilton, New Zealand. This past month, they have added or updated 247 titles from 9 collections. Here is the list o ..read more

Digital Michigan Newspapers regularly adds or updates newspaper titles for the collection. Last month 15 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Digital Michigan Newspapers website). Here is the list of titles:  Pinconning Journal (1/10/1940 – 12/28/2022)  Pinconning Journal and Bay County News (4/8/1925 – 12/29/1948)  Empire Journal (3/13/1902 – 11/13/1919)  Leelanau Enterprise (1878-07-01 – 12/25/1997)  Leelanau News (1/3/1908 – 6/19/1913) &n ..read more

Virginia Chronicle regularly adds or updates newspaper titles for the collection. Last month 29 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Virginia Chronicle website). Here is the list of titles: Blue Ridge Guide (14-Jun-17 – 2-Aug-35)  Christian Observer (5 January 1860 – 28 December 1865)  Courier Record (6-Feb-31 – 27-Dec-73)  Daily Old Dominion (22 August 1864 – 25 August 1865)  EMQ (1-Dec-37 – 1-Dec-40)  Fauquier Gazette (8 July 1825&nbs ..read more

Source: Northern New York Library Network  If you follow this website at all, you know that I from time to time update the free online historical newspapers that are available for you to search. I originally posted the New York Online Historical Newspapers Summary in February 2014, and have added many updates, the latest in July 2023. The largest collection for the state is Old Fulton New York Postcards which has significant updates once a year. I usually write an article alerting you to those updates as they are published. The NY State Historic Newspap ..read more

Yearbooks from high school or college are one of the most fun sets of records for a genealogist to search. It provides you with a ton of story-like information about your ancestor’s life. What their interests were, what sports and clubs they participated in, and often some goofy snapshots of them before they settled into being an adult. And of course, you get to see what they looked like. Here are a few articles that may convince you to research these gems: ​Using Yearbooks For Genealogical Research A Genealogy Education is in School Yearbooks Genealogy 101: School Yearbooks And here is an ..read more

Yearbooks from high school or college are one of the most fun sets of records for a genealogist to search. It provides you with a ton of story-like information about your ancestor’s life. What their interests were, what sports and clubs they participated in, and often some goofy snapshots of them before they settled into being an adult. And of course, you get to see what they looked like. Here are a few articles that may convince you to research these gems: ​Using Yearbooks For Genealogical Research A Genealogy Education is in School Yearbooks Genealogy 101: School Yearbooks And here is an ..read more