There are thousands of newspapers that have yet to be scanned and made available online. You still need to know where they are and how to access them. Please use this list and let me know if you find other sites that are good repositories for further newspaper research. Your feedback is welcome.
Google Index (
International):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_archives_online Elephind.com [click on Advanced Search]: http://www.elephind.com/National Sites for research: A brief history of newspapers-Historic Newspapers:
http://www.historicpages.com/nprhist.htm Visualization of newspapers spread from east to west; Data Visualization:
Journalism’s Voyage West:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/ruralwest/cgi-bin/drupal/visualizations/us_newspapers Newspapers in Microform, LOC:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/news_research_tools/newspapersinmf.html Library of Congress
: http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/extnewsp.html Stars & Stripes:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/ Library of Congress, Chronicling of America:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ (26 states with newspapers from 1836-1922)
Library of Congress, U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Presenthttp://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/Library of Congress, browsable newspapers listed by state:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/ Newspaper Program:
http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html Newspaper Abstracts:
http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/ Repository of Primary Sources:
http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html United States Newspaper Program:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/usnp/usnpp.html US Newspaper Links: current newspapers (not inclusive list):
http://www.usnpl.com/ US Full-Text Newspaper Databases:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/news/db.html Readex: Early American Newspapers, 1690-1876:
http://www.newsbank.com/readex/?content=96 Small Town Papers: $$$
http://www.smalltownpapers.com/
www.GenealogyBank.com $$$
www.footnote.com/
www.newspaperarchive.com $$$ (Allows up to 3 look ups per day, free)
Cyndi’s List, Newspapers:
http://www.cyndislist.com/newspapers Ancestry.com $$$:
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=50000&enc=1 Rootsweb Newspaper Indexes:
http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/news/ Google News Archive Service:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch GenealogyBuff.com – US newspaper list
US Newspaper Indexes in Olin University:
http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/olindexes.html ****US Online Historical Newspapers: ****https://sites.google.com/site/onlinenewspapersite/Home/usa Newspapers, date of Statehood in parentheses. ILL equals Inter Library Loan. Alabama: (1819) ILL
AL Dept. of Archives and History:
http://www.archives.state.al.us/dataindex.html Birmingham Public Library:
http://www.bham.lib.al.us/ (See databases on that site)
Alaska: (1959) ILL
Alaska's Newspapers on Microfilm:
http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist/newspaper/news.html Alaska Newspaper Index:
http://www.eed.state.ak.us/lam/newspapers.cfm Tundra Times:
http://ttip.tuzzy.org/ Alaska Newspaper Index:
http://www.eed.state.ak.us/lam/newspapers.cfmArizona: (1912) ILL
Arizona Newspaper Project:
http://www.lib.az.us/anp/ Mesa FamilySearch Library Obituary Search:
http://mesarfhc.org/search/azobits.htm Arkansas: (1836) Arkansas History Commission:
http://www.ark-ives.com/documenting/newspapers.asp Princeton University Library: African American Newspapers, 1829- present:
http://libguides.princeton.edu/aas California: (1850) California State Library, Sutro:
http://www.library.ca.gov/calhist/newspaper.html (ILL only "non-rare materials,")
California Newspaper Project:
http://cnp.ucr.edu/ California Newspaper Project:
http://www.cbsr.ucr.edu/California Digital Newspaper Collection:
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/newsucr The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkley:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ El Clamor Publico:
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/collection/clamor-m235.html Colorado: (1876) Colorado Historical Society:
http://www.coloradohistory.org/chs_library/research_coll_files/rc_newspapers.htm Colorado newspaper online (today’s newspapers)
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/usstate/uscolora.htm Colorado Historic Newspapers, 1859-1923:
http://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/Default/welcome.asp?skin=Colorado&QS=Skin%3DColorado%26AW%3D1319598992767%26AppName%3D2Connecticut: (1788) Connecticut State Library: ILL:
http://www.cslib.org/cnp.htm Connecticut Newspaper Indexes:
http://www.cslib.org/newspaper/indexes.htm Newspapers of Connecticut:
http://cslib.cdmhost.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15019coll9 Delaware: (1787) University of Delaware Library: ILL
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/delnews/ UDel, Microfilmed Newspaper List:
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/delnews/list.htm Historical Society of Delaware:
http://www.hsd.org/ [“Newspaper” in search box]
District of Columbia: D.C. Public Library:
http://www.h-net.org/~dclist/dcplnews1.pdf D.C. Public Library Special Collections:
http://dclibrary.org/research/collections Florida: (1845) State Library of Florida: ILL
http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/fgils/flnews2.html State Library of Florida, Florida Collection:
http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/library/FLCollection/newspapers.cfm Florida History in Newspapers:
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/newspap.html Boca Raton Historical Society:
http://www.bocahistory.org/boca_history/br_history_newpaper.asp Florida Digital Newspaper Library:
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/?c=fdnl1 Central Florida Memory:
http://www.cfmemory.org/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOBOX1=newspaper&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=all Georgia: (1788) University of Georgia: ILL
http://www.libs.uga.edu/gnp/ Digital Library of Georgia:
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/zlgn_information.html?Welcome&Welcome&Welcome **Search engine for Digital Library**
http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/ftaccess.cgi?_id=7f000001&dbs=ZLGN Georgia Historic Newspapers:
http://atlnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers/search UofGA Libraries, Microfilm Holdings:
http://www.libs.uga.edu/gnp/titlelist.html Hawaii: (1959) (NO ILL)
Hawaii State Archives:
http://hawaii.gov/dags/archives Hawaiian Historical Society:
http://www.hawaiianhistory.org/ Hawaiian Language Newspaper Index:
http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/newspapers.htm University of Hawaii:
http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/research/digicoll.html Hawai’i Newspaper Indexes:
http://www.hawaii.edu/emailref/instruction/guides/hni.pdf Idaho: (1890) (Edit>Search>Newspapers)
Idaho State Historical society: Some ILL
http://history.idaho.gov/archives-collections Illinois: (1818) Illinois Historic Preservation Agency: ILL
http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/Microfilm.htm Illinois Newspaper Project: ILL
http://www.library.illinois.edu/inp/microfilm.php Chicago’s, Hyde Park Herald:
http://www.hpherald.com/archive/ Barrington Area History:
http://barringtonarealibrary.org/local-history.html Farm, Field & Fireside; Agricultural Newspaper Collection:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/dnc/Default/Skins/FFF/Client.asp?Skin=FFF&AppName=2&AW=1347931968438 Flora Journal-Record:
http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/search/collection/fpl01 Quincy Historical Newspaper Archive:
http://www.quincylibrary.org/library_resources/newspaperArchive.asp Indiana: (1816) Indiana State Library: ILL
http://www.in.gov/library/3006.htm Indiana Historical Society:
http://www.indianahistory.org/ [‘newspaper’ in search box]
Indiana University, Bloomington:
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=3089 Indianapolis Newspapers Database, 1848-1991:
http://208.119.72.68/IndyNews/1848_1991_search.asp Depauw University, Digital Archives:
http://digital.library.depauw.edu/ Iowa: (1846) State Historical Society of Iowa: ILL$
http://www.iowahistory.org/libraries/newspaper-search.html Barnard Bulletin, Digital Archives:
http://barnardcollege.newspaperarchive.com/Default.aspx Floyd County:
http://cc.newspaperarchive.com/ Sioux County Index, The:
http://siouxcounty.newspaperarchive.com/ Kansas: (1861) Kansas State Historical Society:
http://www.kshs.org/p/newspapers-in-kansas/11528 Kansas Public Library:
http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/kansas-collection/topic/genealogy-resources.aspx Kentucky: (1792) University of Kentucky Libraries: ILL
http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/NDNP/kycollections.html Kentucky GenWeb:
http://www.kygenweb.net/counties/ukfilm.html Louisiana: (1812) ILL
Louisiana State University:
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/lnp/ft/ftsearch.php The New Orleans Bee:
http://www.jefferson.lib.la.us/genealogy/NewOrleansBeeMain.htm Maine: (1820) ILL
University of Maine, Fogler Library:
http://library.umaine.edu/speccoll/newspapers.htm Maine UsGenWeb:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~megenweb/newspaper/project/ Snow Index to Brunswick Newspapers, 1853-1960:
http://community.curtislibrary.com/CML/cml_php/snow_index.phpMaryland: (1788) Maryland State Archives:
http://speccol.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/catalog/newspapers/cfm/index.cfm Maryland State Archives - by County:
http://speccol.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/catalog/newspapers/cfm/dsp_county.cfm Frederick County Public Libraries:
http://fredericknewspost.newspaperarchive.com/Default.aspx University of Maryland, Periodicals and Newspapers:
http://lib.guides.umd.edu/content.php?pid=131120&sid=1149455 St. Mary's Beacon Index, 1852-1980:
http://beacon.lib.md.us/Baltimore Sun, 1837-1986, 1990-date:
http://beacon.lib.md.us/Massachusetts: (1788) Boston Public Library: ILL
http://www.bpl.org/research/microtext/news.htm State Library of Massachusetts:
http://www.mass.gov/portal/ In Search box, input: ‘Historical Newspapers’ Massachusetts Newspapers Index & Database:
http://www.mass-doc.com/news_indexes.htm Massachusetts, Cambridge Tribune:
http://cambridge.dlconsulting.com/ Boston Evening Transcript, 1850s-1890s:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=sArNgO4T4MoCObits, Boston Globe & Boston Herald, 1953-2010:
http://www.bpl.org/catalogs/interpro/bpl_search/obits.htmMichigan: (1837) Michigan State University:
http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/content.php?pid=61656&sid=454236 Michigan, Otsego County Newspaper Archive:
http://66.129.39.201:8080/docushare/dsweb/HomePage
Michigan, Farmington – Historical Newspaper Collection:
http://www.farmlib.org/localhist/ Western Michigan Newspapers, 1910-2012:
http://data.wmgs.org/Newspapers/FMPro?-token=114887&-db=Newspapers&-format=search.htm&-findall Southwest Michigan Obituary Index:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mivanbur/SWMIObitIndex/SWMIObit.htmMinnesota: (1858) University of Minnesota:
https://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=942 Minnesota Historical Society (‘Newspapers’ over half way down the page):
http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/personal/guide.html Winona Newspaper Project:
http://www.winona.edu/library/databases/winonanewspaperproject.htm Minneapolis Central: Labor Review:
http://www.minneapolisunions.org/labor_review_archive_about.php Mississippi: (1817) Mississippi Department of Archives and History:
http://zed.mdah.state.ms.us/ Missouri: (1821) Missouri History Museum – Digitized St. Louis Newspapers:
http://www.mohistory.org/node/7179 Missouri Digital Heritage – Search engine for site:
http://cdm.sos.mo.gov/cdm4/search.php Missouri Newspaper Card File Indexes:
http://shs.umsystem.edu/newspaper/newscardfiles.shtml State Historical Society of Missouri: ILL
http://shs.umsystem.edu/newspaper/index.shtml Montana: (1889) Montana Historical Society:
http://mhs.mt.gov/research/library/pamphletsguides.asp Nebraska: (1867) Nebraska State Historical Society: ILL
http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/research/library/newspapr.htm Nebraska Newspaper Extraction Project:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/newspapers/NSHS/nshsnews.htm Nebraska Newspapers:
http://nebnewspapers.unl.edu/info/about/NDNPNevada: (1864) Nevada State Library:
http://nsla.nevadaculture.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1210 University of Nevada, Las Vegas:
http://www.library.unlv.edu/collections/micro/nevnews/ New Hampshire: (1788) New Hampshire Historical Society:
http://www.nhhistory.org/orginfo.html New Hampshire State Library:
http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/public/newspapers.html New Jersey: (1787) New Jersey Historical Society:
http://www.jerseyhistory.org/search.php?sstring=newspapers Middle Tennessee State University:
http://ulibnet.mtsu.edu/microtext/st/nj.html New Jersey Newspapers:
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/scua.shtml New Mexico: (1912) New Mexico Newspaper Project:
http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm4/index_NewMexicoNewspapers.php New York: (1788) New York State Newspaper Project: ILL
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/ New York Historical Society:
https://www.nyhistory.org/web/default.php?section=library&page=research_guides# Pro-Quest: Historical New York Newspapers:
http://historynews.chadwyck.com/home/home.cgi?source=config2.cfg Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Default/Skins/BEagle/Client.asp?Skin=BEagle&AppName=2&GZ=T&AW=1347587432015 Huron River Valley Historical Newspapers:
http://news.hrvh.org/ Ithaca College, The Ithican: Historical Issues in a Digital Version:
http://www.ithacalibrary.com/archives/ithacan.php Cornell University - The Cornell Daily Sun Digitization Project:
http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/ Suffolk Historic Newspapers:
http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Default/Skins/Suffolk/Client.asp?Skin=Suffolk&AppName=2&AW=1347932317273 Fulton History (warning! music):
http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.htmlNew York Times, 1851-1980:
http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?srchst=p New York State Newspaper Project:
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/about.htmNew York Newspaper Morgues:
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/research/media_morgues.phpNorth Carolina: (1789) North Carolina Newspaper Project: ILL
http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ghl/resources/newspapers.html North Carolina Newspaper Digitization:
http://www.archives.ncdcr.gov/newspaper/index.html North Carolina Digital:
http://library.digitalnc.org/cdm/search/searchterm/Newspapers/field/format/mode/exact/ RCPL: Newspaper Obituaries:
http://www.randolphlibrary.org/newspaperobits.htmNorth Dakota: (1889) State Historical Society of North Dakota:
http://history.nd.gov/archives/whatnewspapers.html Ohio: (1803) ILL$
The Ohio Historical Society:
http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/newspaper/home.cfm Ohio Newspaper Index:
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/database/news.html Ohio Obituary Index:
http://index.rbhayes.org/hayes/index/record_detail.asp?id=1479429 Oklahoma: (1907) Oklahoma Historical Society:
http://okhistory.cuadra.com/star/public.html University of Oklahoma Libraries, Western History Collections:
http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/sooner/search.asp?term=newspapers&name=Go The Gateway to Oklahoma History:
http://gateway.okhistory.org/ Oklahoman obituaries:
http://www.okhistory.org/research/obits.phpOregon: (1859) ILL
Newspapers on Microfilm:
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/micro/papers.htm Oregon Newspaper Microfilming Project:
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/micro/pos.htm Oregon Newspaper Index:
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/micro/nindex.htm Genealogical Forum of Oregon-Oregon Obituary Index:
http://www.gfo.org/obits/index.htm Pennsylvania: (1787) Free Library of Philadelphia:
http://libwww.library.phila.gov/faq/guides/genealogy/newspapers.cfm?FAQCategory=19 Penn Libraries:
http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/guides/philadelphia/phnews.html Rhode Island: (1790) Middle Tennessee State University:
http://ulibnet.mtsu.edu/microtext/st/ri.html Rhode Island Historical Society:
http://www.rihs.org/refnews&per.htm South Carolina: (1788) South Carolina State Library:
http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/south-carolina-obituary-resources South Carolina Historical Society:
http://www.southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org/ Middle Tennessee State University:
http://ulibnet.mtsu.edu/microtext/st/sc.html South Dakota: (1889) South Dakota State Historical Society:
http://history.sd.gov/ South Dakota State Library:
http://library.sd.gov/LIB/ERD/access/complete.aspx Tennessee: (1796) Tennessee State Library & Archives:
http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/newspapers/index.htm Tennessee State Library & Archive:
http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/newspapers/tn-obits.htm Texas: (1845) Dallas Public Library:
http://www.dallaslibrary2.org/texas/newspapers.htm Texas State Library:
https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/news.html University of Texas, Austin:
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/services/finding_items/newspapers.php Texas Newspaper Project:
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/research/newspapers.phpPortal of Texas:
The Portal to Texas History-Newspapers [above search box] Utah: (1896) Utah State Historical Society:
http://history.utah.gov/research_and_collections/collections/search/newspapers/index.html Finding aid at USHS:
http://history.utah.gov/findaids/index.html [scroll down to Collections]
Utah Digital Newspapers:
http://digitalnewspapers.org/Vermont: (1791) Vermont Newspaper Project:
http://library.uvm.edu/vtnp/ Burlington Free Press/Rutland Herald Index:
http://bfprhdindex.uvm.edu/ Vermont Genealogy:
http://community.middlebury.edu/~swilson/introvc.html Old Newspaper Collections Project:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/niagara/news/vt/index.html The Vermont Chronicle, 1826-1898:
http://community.middlebury.edu/~swilson/chronicle.htmlVirginia: (1788) University of Mary Washington:
http://libguides.umw.edu/newspapers The Virginia Newspaper Project:
http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/using_collections.asp#_guides-NewspapersandMagazines Fairfax County, Virginia – Historical Newspaper index with over 1M records from 10 papers.
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/newsindex/ Virginia Tech |American Civil War Newspapers:
https://dcr.emd.vt.edu/vital/access/manager/Index Virginia Gazette, 1736-1780:
http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/BrowseVG.cfm American Civil War Newspapers:
https://dcr.emd.vt.edu/vital/access/manager/IndexWashington: (1889) ILL
Washington State Library:
http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/newspapers.aspx University of Washington:
http://depts.washington.edu/mcnews/indexes/newsguide.htm Walla Walla, WA, WWII Airport Newspaper Archives:
http://www.wallawallaairport.com/archives/default.htm West Virginia: (1863) ILL
West Virginia University Libraries:
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/collections/collection.php?id=48 West Virginia State Archives:
http://www.wvculture.org/history/newspapers/newsmic.html Wisconsin: (1847) ILL
Wisconsin Historical Society Library:
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/collections/news.asp http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/ Wyoming: (1890) Wyoming State Archives:
http://micrographics.state.wy.us/index.aspx Wyoming Newspaper Project:
http://www.wyonewspapers.org/ African-American Newspapers and Periodicals Wisconsin Historical Society:
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aanp/freedom/ The Friend of Man:
http://fom.library.cornell.edu/ Ethnic Newspaper: Connecticut’s Ethnic Newspapers:
http://www.cslib.org/newspaper/ethnic.htm Pacific Northwest and Minority:
http://db.lib.washington.edu/press/ Immigration History Research Center:
http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/ Duke University; Jewish Studies:
http://library.duke.edu/research/subject/guides/jewishstudies/general_resources/newspapers/index.html Foreign:
Canadian: Saskatchewan GenWeb
-ILL
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansk/Saskatchewan/newspaper.html Canada/Austria/Britain/Ireland: (1/3 way down page) ‘The Press in America’ & ‘Newspaper Collections’ & ‘American Newspapers’ – some links broken as page is ‘old’
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rwguide/lesson20.htm Quebec Collections:
http://www.banq.qc.ca/collections/collection_numerique/index.html?categorie=6 Manitoba Digital Resources:
http://manitobia.ca/content/en/newspapers International Coalition on Newspapers:
http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm Irish Newspaper Archives:
http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/ Hartland Forum:
http://www.hartlandforum.co.uk/News1.htm Papers Past – New Zealand newspapers, 1839-1945:
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast National Library of Singapore:
http://newspapers.nl.sg/default.aspx And last but least, before you throw in the towel, Google the name you are seeking with quotes.
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