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Newspapers provide a window into the lives of your ancestors through advertisements of popular products, ‘gossip’ columns, notices of births, deaths and marriages, long-forgotten news items pertinent to the day and even editorial comments reflecting community sentiments. Don't miss these online sources for the newspapers of our past.
Proquest Historical Newspapers Collection
Find your family history in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database with these search tips and strategies for refining your search. Learn how to use advanced search features such as wildcards, phrase searching, proximity searching and boolean operators to find news articles, marriage notices, obituaries, photos, and other historical data.
How to Find & Use Newspapers for Genealogical Research
Serving as daily (or weekly) diaries of local communities and their inhabitants, newspapers are excellent sources of family history.
Collecting Historic Newspapers: An Introduction
This wonderful page for people interested in collecting old newspapers includes a history of newspapers, reasons for collecting historic newspapers and a newspaper collecting FAQ.
Gleaning Information From Newspapers
Quick tips from Ancestry.com.
Historic Newspaper Catalog
Purchase historic newspapers online at Phil Barber's newspaper shop. Categories include a sampler of World Newspapers (1675-1945), Early Americana (1775-1830), Antebellum America (1830-1860), the Civil War (1860-1865), the Age of Expansion (1865-1910), and the 20th Century (1910-1950).
History Buff Paper Collectibles Auction
This site hosts six auctions per year (auctions open the first week of the odd months - January, March, May, July, September and November) and includes categories for historic newspapers, Civil War newspapers and the Saturday Evening Post.
Maori Newspapers
A collection of historic newspapers published primarily for a Mâori audience between 1842 and 1932. The newspapers can be searched (full text), browsed (by series) or accessed by date. From the New Zealand Digital Library. Also in English.
Searching Newspapers - Read All About It
Genealogists who research only the obituary page will miss other valuable resources.
Using Hometown Newspapers to Gather Little Known Facts
What you can learn from small community newspapers and how to find them. By Roseann Reinemuth Hogan, Ph.D.
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