Newspapers

Search indexed newspapers or browse the actual digitized pages of hundreds of digitized historical newspapers online. This listing directs you to historical newspapers online for the United States, organized by state.

Research online in these historic newspaper collections from around the world. Most include digital images of the actual newspapers as well as a searchable index.

Digitized versions of historic newspapers are an outstanding source of genealogical information. Yet, since many such newspapers are made searchable using imperfect OCR technology, actually finding the information you seek can be problematic. Search features vary greatly by newspaper archive, which will impact the search features available to you, but these tips should help you dig details on you…

historic newspapers online

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.

Serving as daily (or weekly) diaries of local communities and their inhabitants, newspapers are excellent sources of family history.

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.

Quick tips from Ancestry.com.

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).

A free lesson from Genealogy.com.

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.

Genealogists who research only the obituary page will miss other valuable resources.

What you can learn from small community newspapers and how to find them. By Roseann Reinemuth Hogan, Ph.D.

Try these search tips to improve your chances of finding historical articles, obituaries, marriage announcements and more in Google News Archive -...