For the last 3 years I have been tracking the online collections made available by the Advantage Preservation company, who has contracted with several hundred libraries across the U.S. to digitize and host their online newspaper collections.

The great majority of these links have been Incorporated in the state collection summaries found in the Newspaper Research Links page on this site. 



The most recent update from Advantage Preservation totals over 465 collections from 37 states and a total number of pages exceeding 45 million!
​
Some of the collections are small, but others have over 50 different newspaper titles. Although Advantage-Preservation gets the credit for making these available, much of the credit should go to the individual libraries, library systems, historical societies and other institutions, who do the really hard work of obtaining the funds via grants and other funding sources to digitize these old newspapers and make them available online for their patrons.  In these times where funding for digitization of old newspapers from libraries, archives and other institutions is not easy to get, those of us who want to research our genealogy through newspapers and other documents owe a large debt of gratitude to the librarians and archivists who make all of this possible.  The moral of the story is "Support your local libraries and archives!"


Here is a list by state and county of the online collections available to search for free (with page counts in parentheses):

Alaska

• Wrangell-Petersburg - Petersburg Public Library (64,453 )  

Arizona

• Pinal - Casa Grande Public Library (386,991 )  
•  Pinal - Eloy Santa Cruz Library (49,384 )  

Colorado

• Yuma - Yuma Public Library (54,021 )  

Connecticut

• Hartford - Farmington Libraries (77,135 )  
•  Hartford - New Britain Public Library (11,963 )  
•  Hartford - Windsor Locks Historical Society (32,586 )  
•  Litchfield - Beardsley & Memorial Library (7,707 )  
•  Litchfield - Thomaston Public Library (50,443 )  
•  Middlesex - East Hampton Public Library (18,995 )  
•  New Haven - James Blackstone Memorial Library (146,895 )  
•  New Haven - North Haven Public Library (52,476 )  
•  New Haven - Wallingford City Directories (6,945 )  

Delaware

• New Castle - New Castle Public Library (32,986 )  

Georgia

• Colquitt - Moultrie Colquitt County Library (46,582 )  
•  Dawson - Dawson County Library (82,361 )  
•  Glynn - Marshes of Glynn Library (3,573 )  
•  Laurens - Oconee Regional Library System (359,710 )  (Library Access only)
•  Lee - Lee County Library (55,233 )  
•  Morgan - Uncle Remus Regional Library System (343,563 )  
•  Worth - Worth County Library (106,431 )  

Idaho

• Bannock - Marshall Public Library (22,193 )  
•  Bear Lake - Bear Lake County Library (101,595 )  
•  Cassia - Burley Public Library (24,718 )  
•  Clearwater - Elk River Free Library (1,334 )  
•  East Bonner - East Bonner County Library District (322,733 )  
•  Franklin - Franklin County Library District (87,172 )  
•  Jerome - Jerome Public Library (1,026 )  
•  Kootenai - Hayden Community Library Network (155,112 )  
•  Lemhi - Salmon Public Library (65,025 )  
•  Payette - Armoral Tuttle Public Library (15,532 )  
•  Teton - Valley of the Tetons District Library (78,682 )  

Illinois

• Brown - Brown County Public Library (97,378 )  
•  Cassio - Beardstown Houston Memorial Library (199,698 )  
•  Clark - Marshall Public Library (148,757 )  
•  Cook - Bellwood Public Library (43,994 )  
•  Cook - Forest Park Public Library (95,440 )  
•  Cook - Midlothian Public Library (43,613 )  
•  Cook - Park Ridge Library (285,797 )  
•  Cook - River Forest Public Library (367,403 )  
•  DeKalb - Shabbona Lee Rolo Historical Museum  (42,972 )  
•  DeWitt - Farmer City Public Library (82,968 )  
•  Hancock - Warsaw Public Library (89,228 )  
•  Henry - Clover Public Library District (35,570 )  
•  Henry - Galva Public Library (86,436 )  
•  Henry - Geneseo Public Library District (135,494 )  
•  Henry - Kewanee Public Library District (190,057 )  
•  Henry - Western District Library (73,075 )  
•  Kane - Town and Country Public Library District (91,184 )  
•  LaSalle - Earlville Library District (69,504 )  
•  Logan - Atlanta Public Library and Museum  (28,012 )  
•  Marshall - Henry Public Library (97,028 )  
•  McHenry - Harvard Diggins Library (87,024 )  
•  Ogle - Polo Public Library (6,512 )  
•  Peoria - Brimfield Public Library (39,097 )  
•  Peoria - Peoria Heights Public Library (19,878 )  
•  Rock Island - Moline Public Library (398,315 )  
•  St. Clair - Freeburg Area Library District (41,341 )  
•  St. Clair - New Athens District Library (65,534 )  
•  Stark - Bradford Public Library District (48,878 )  
•  Stark - Toulon Public Library (57,434 )  
•  Tazewell - Morton Public Library (150,302 )  
•  Whiteside - Erie Illinois Public Library (21,885 )  
•  Whiteside - Sterling Public Library (173,334 )  
•  Will - Plainfield Public Library (6,686 )  
•  Winnebago - Talcott Free Library District (103,246 )  

Indiana

• Knox - Knox County Public Library (235,996 )  

Iowa

• Allamakee - Postville Public Library (81,341 )  
•  Appanoose - Centerville Iowegian (362,302 )  
•  Benton - Baseball Museum of Norway (13,404 )  
•  Benton - Belle Plaine Community Library (108,981 )  
•  Benton - Blairstown Public Library (50,633 )  
•  Benton - Schroeder Public Library (9,524 )  
•  Benton - Vinton Public Library & the Benton County Historical Society (260,414 )  
•  Bremer - Sumner Public Library (87,920 )  
•  Bremer - Waverly Public Library (54,390 )  
•  Buchanan - Jesup Public Library (55,529 )  
•  Buena Vista - Albert City Historical Society (28,626 )  
•  Buena Vista - Marathon Public Library (14,388 )  
•  Buena Vista - Newell Public Library (115,590 )  
•  Buena Vista - Sioux Rapids Public Library (54,175 )  
•  Buena Vista - Storm Lake Public Library (285,917 )  
•  Butler - Aplington Legion Memorial Library (11,145 )  
•  Butler - Greene Public Library (63,595 )  
•  Carroll - Carroll Public Library (536,559 )  
•  Carroll - Coon Rapids Public Library (83,703 )  
•  Cass - Griswold Public Library (63,944 )  
•  Cedar - West Branch Public Library (19,480 )  
•  Cherokee - Cherokee Public Library (366,834 )  
•  Cherokee - Marcus Public Library (41,255 )  
•  Chickasaw - New Hampton Public Library (197,805 )  
•  Clarke - Oseola Public Library (115,874 )  
•  Clay - Kirchner French Public Library (42,855 )  
•  Clayton - Elkader Public Library (118,209 )  
•  Clayton - Garnavillo Historical Society (13,089 )  
•  Clayton - Guttenberg Public Library (106,593 )  
•  Clayton - Monona Public Library (34,238 )  
•  Clinton - Clinton Public Library (74,964 )  
•  Crawford - Norelius Community Library (130,888 )  
•  Crawford - Schleswig Public Library (40,515 )  
•  Dickinson - Dickinson County (232,817 )  
•  Dubuque - City of Dubuque (70,999 )  
•  Dubuque - The Witness (64,784 )  
•  Fayette - Fayette Public Library (67,492 )  
•  Emmet - Estherville Public Library (477,123 )  
•  Fayette - Elgin Public Library (64,277 )  
•  Fayette - Oelwein (357,211 )  
•  Fayette - The Collegian (13,872 )  
•  Fayette - West Union Community Library (131,029 )  
•  Floyd - Rockford Public Library (50,719 )  
•  Greene - Jefferson Public Library (155,900 )  
•  Grundy - Beaman Community Memorial Library (5,231 )  
•  Grundy - Conrad Museum (1,372 )  
•  Grundy - Kling Memorial Library (114,276 )  
•  Grundy - Ostfriesen Heritage Society (17,699 )  
•  Guthrie - Bayard Public Library (44,190 )  
•  Guthrie - Mary Burnett Memorial Library (108,649 )  
•  Guthrie - Stuart Public Library (56,863 )  
•  Hamilton - Ellsworth Public Library (46,831 )  
•  Hamilton - Hamilton County (451,874 )  
•  Hardin - Ackley Public Library (51,084 )  
•  Hardin - Hardin County Iowa (560,630 )  (Library Access only)
•  Harrison - Missouri Valley Public Library (101,029 )  (Library Access only)
•  Henry - Winfield Public Library (49,082 )  
•  Humblodt - Humboldt County Genealogical Society (25,663 )  
•  Ida - Battle Creek (29,441 )  
•  Ida - Ida Grove Public Library (70,274 )  
•  Iowa - Iowa County Genealogical (57,317 )  (Library Access only)
•  Iowa - Iowa County Iowa (289,209 )  (Library Access only)
•  Iowa - Williamsburg Iowa (289,209 )  (Library Access only)
•  Jasper - Monroe Public Library (28,277 )  
•  Johnson - Oxford Public Library (12,090 )  
•  Jones - Jones County Genealogical Society (319,387 )  
•  Jones - Ross & Elizabeth Baty Public Library, Monticello (142,426 )  
•  Keokuk - Hedrick Public Library (46,362 )  
•  Keokuk - Warren County Historical Society (49,629 )  
•  Kossuth - Algona Public Library (216,139 )  
•  Kossuth - Kossuth County Newspapers (173,196 )  
•  Linn - Cedar Rapids Public Library (1,886,367 )  
•  Linn - Cornell College (54,126 )  
•  Linn - Linn County Atlas (1,245 )  
•  Linn - Marion Public Library (150,538 )  
•  Linn - Mount Vernon Public Library (71,929 )  
•  Louisa - Mellinger Public Library (64,750 )  
•  Lucas - Chariton Public Library (119,334 )  
•  Lyon - Rock Rapids Public Library (115,623 )  
•  Madison - Earlham Public Library (30,578 )  
•  Madison - Winterset Public Library (122,001 )  
•  Marion - Central College Newspapers (34,250 )  
•  Marion - Pella Public Library (150,142 )  
•  Marshall - Gutekunst Public Library (64,881 )  
•  Marshall - Marshalltown Public Library (83,417 )  
•  Mills - Malvern Public Library (63,022 )  
•  Mills - The Silver City Historical Society (12,312 )  
•  Mitchell - Nissen Public Library (50,044 )  
•  Mitchell - Osage Public Library (31,835 )  
•  Monona - Mapleton Public Library (76,893 )  
•  Monona - Onawa Public Library (134,742 )  
•  Monroe - Monroe County Historical Society (164,560 )  
•  Montgomery - Red Oak Community (173,648 )  
•  Montgomery - Stanton Historical Society (25,094 )  
•  Montgomery - Villisca Public Library (69,503 )  
•  O'Brien - General N.B. Baker Library  (41,576 )  
•  O'Brien - Hartley Public Library (85,176 )  
•  O'Brien - Paullina Public Library (60,729 )  
•  O'Brien - Sanborn Public Library (100,650 )  
•  Osceola - Sibley Public Library (123,846 )  
•  Page - Essex Lied Public Library (41,265 )  
•  Page - Lied Library (186,598 )  
•  Page - Shenandoah Public Library (260,365 )  (Library Access only)
•  Palo Alto - Graettinger Public Library (10,636 )  
•  Palo Alto - Palo Alto County (86,308 )  
•  Plymouth - Akron Public Library (61,799 )  
•  Plymouth - Kingsley Public Library (55,902 )  
•  Plymouth - LeMars Public Library (232,808 )  
•  Plymouth - Remsen Public Library (57,179 )  
•  Pocahontas - Laurens Public Library (76,222 )  
•  Pocahontas - Pocahontas Public Library (96,852 )  
•  Pocahontas - Rolfe Public Library (43,637 )  
•  Polk - Children and Families of Iowa (3,938 )  
•  Polk - Johnston Public Library (29,599 )  
•  Pottawattamie - Avoca (13,543 )  
•  Pottawattamie - Botna Valley Genealogy Society (6,821 )  
•  Pottawattamie - Walnut Public Library (50,370 )  
•  Ringgold - Tingley Vindicator (16,223 )  
•  Sac - Odebolt Public Library and Museum (135,397 )  
•  Scott - Catholic Messenger (77,175 )  
•  Scott - Scott County Library (131,857 )  
•  Sioux - Libraries of Sioux County (621,597 )  
•  Story - Bertha Bartlett Public Library (66,145 )  
•  Taylor - Lenox Public Library (46,281 )  
•  Wapello - Eddyville Public Library (49,246 )  
•  Washington - Kalona Public Library  (69,908 )  
•  Wayne - Seymour Community Library (52,068 )  
•  Webster - Fort Dodge Public Library (189,341 )  
•  Woodbury - Morningside College (19,789 )  
•  Worth - Worth County Historical Society (8,426 )  
•  Wright - Clarion Public Library (98,811 )  
•  Wright - Eagle Grove Memorial Library (132,032 )  
•  Wright - Talbot Belmond  Public Library (40,655 )  (Library Access only)

Kansas

• Allen - Humboldt Public Library (51,852 )  
•  Anderson - Garnett Public Library (13,688 )  
•  Brown - Morrill Public Library (186,049 )  
•  Chase - Chase County Historical Society (4,632 )  
•  Coffey - Lebo Branch-Coffey County Library (42,540 )  
•  Cowley - Arkansas City Public Library (489,785 )  
•  Franklin - Ottawa University (25,223 )  
•  Geary - Dorothy Bramlage Public Library (469,242 )  
•  Gove - Grinnell-Angelus Heritage Center (24,600 )  
•  Harvey - Bethel College (28,030 )  
•  Harvey - Newton Public Library (171,444 )  
•  Logan - Oakley Public Library (72,137 )  
•  Lyon - Lyon County Library (23,446 )  
•  Marion - Peabody Township Library (63,088 )  
•  Marshall - Waterville Public Library (48,609 )  
•  Montgomery - Independence Public Library (29,092 )  
•  Nemaha - Mary Cotton Public Library (103,860 )  
•  Nemaha - Seneca Free Library (114,928 )  
•  Osborne - Osborne Public Library (227,429 )  
•  Pawnee - Jordaan Memorial Library (7,868 )  
•  Pottawatomie - Wamego Public Library (121,222 )  
•  Rooks - Plainville Memorial Library (77,403 )  
•  Russell - Russell Public Library (7,608 )  
•  Sedgewick - Derby Public Library (26,891 )  
•  Stevens - Stevens County Library (73,469 )  

Kentucky

• Adair - Adair County Library (27,845 )  
•  Clark - Clark County Public Library (14,771 )  
•  Clinton - Clinton County Public Library District (15,144 )  
•  Green - Green County Public Library (84,038 )  
•  Meade - Meade County Public Library (100,813 )  
•  Russell - Russell County Public Library (99,307 )  
•  Wayne - Wayne County Public Library (113,884 )  

Louisiana

• Acadia - Acadia Parish Library (534,006 )  
•  Bienville - Bienville Parish Public Library (57,609 )  
•  Concordia - Concordia Parish Public Library (158,427 )  
•  East Baton Rouge - East Baton Rouge Parish Library (19,103 )  
•  Jefferson Davis - Jennings Carnegie (29,379 )  
•  Lafayette - Lafayette Public Library (86,945 )  
•  LaSalle - LaSalle Parish Library (91,374 )  
•  Rapides - Rapides Parish Library (225,151 )  
•  Union - Union Parish Library (52,974 )  
•  Vermillion - Vermilion Parish Library (325,483 )  
•  Vernon - Vernon Parish Library (202,308 )  
•  Webster - Webster Parish Library (234,590 )  

Maine

• Aroostook - Fort Fairfield Public Library (55,608 )  
•  Aroostook - Houlton High School Yearbooks (9,711 )  
•  Aroostook - Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library (37,471 )  
•  Aroostook - Walter TA Hansen Memorial Library (8,403 )  
•  Cumberland - Bridgton Public Library (87,941 )  
•  Cumberland - Scarborough Public Library (68,530 )  
•  Kennebec - Gardiner Public Library  (17,851 )  
•  Lincoln - Skidompha Library (11,045 )  
•  Lincoln - Skidompha Public Library (2,077 )  
•  Penobscot - Old Town Public Library (110,681 )  
•  Piscataquis - Thompson Free Library (30,053 )  
•  Waldo - Belfast Free Library (7,881 )  
•  York - Springvale Public Library and Goodall Memorial Library (34,517 )  

Maryland

• Montgomery - Montgomery County Public Libraries (1,148 )  
•  Queen Anne's - Queen Anne's County Library (134,455 )  
•  Worcester - Worcester County Library (133,106 )  

Massachusetts

• Essex - Newburyport Public Library (132,311 )  
•  Franklin - Montague Public Libraries (18,246 )  
•  Hampden - Wilbraham Public Library (10,200 )  
•  Middlessex - Tewksbury Public Library (12,277 )  
•  Norfolk - Holbrook Public Library (17,129 )  
•  Norfolk - Turner Free Library (40,987 )  
•  Worcester - Ashburnham (802 )  
•  Worcester - Oxford Public Library (827 )  

Michigan

• Alger - Munising School Public Library (87,109 )  
•  Bay - Delta College Collegiate (6,944 )  
•  Berrien - Bridgman Public Library (1,535 )  
•  Genesee - Kettering University Library (5,954 )  
•  Gratiot - Alma College (4,753 )  
•  Newaygo - White Cloud Community Library (10,573 )  

Mississippi

• Coahoma - Carnegie Public Library (212,976 )  
•  Wayne - Waynesboro Wayne County Library System (115,916 )  

Missouri

• Grundy - Grundy County Jewett Norris Library (365,819 )  
•  Livingston - Livingston (50,180 )  
•  Putnam - Putnam County Public Library (150,014 )  

Montana

• Gallatin - Bozeman High School (7,880 )  
•  Hill - Havre Hill County Library (349,848 )  
•  Hill - Havre Hill Obituaries (13,135 )  
•  Yellowstone - Billings Public Library (118,976 )  

Nebraska

• Antelope - Neligh Public Library (80,924 )  
•  Boone - Albion Public Library (76,906 )  
•  Burt - Lyons Public Library (70,700 )  
•  Burt - Oakland Public Library (82,157 )  
•  Cheyenne - Dalton Delegate (2,769 )  
•  Dixon - Dixon County Nebraska (51,555 )  
•  Dixon - Ponca Carnegie Library (80,520 )  
•  Dodge - North Bend Public Library (71,345 )  
•  Dodge - Scribner Public Library (66,830 )  
•  Furnas - Arapahoe Public Library (86,063 )  
•  Furnas - Butler Memorial Library (65,776 )  
•  Greeley - Scotia Public Library and Heritage Center (40,091 )  
•  Holt - Atkinson Library (62,079 )  
•  Howard - Saint Paul Library (115,781 )  
•  Knox - Creighton Public Library (65,509 )  
•  Lincoln - North Platte Genealogical Society (182,174 )  
•  Madison - City of Norfolk (618,340 )  
•  Merrick - Central City Public Library (6,258 )  
•  Perkins - Hastings Memorial Library (80,314 )  
•  Pierce - Lied Pierce Public Library (88,237 )  
•  Pierce - Plainview News (66,516 )  
•  Polk - Polk County Historical Society  (119,358 )  
•  Seward - Seward Memorial Library (218,498 )  
•  Stanton - Stanton Public Library (54,520 )  
•  Valley - North Loup Public Library (18,132 )  

Nevada

• Douglas - Douglas County Public Library (176,336 )  

New Hampshire

• Grafton - Bethlehem Public Library (4,644 )  
•  Hillsborough - Fuller Public Library (69,679 )  
•  Hillsborough - Peterborough Public  Library (19,394 )  
•  Hillsborough - Wadleigh Memorial Library (70,510 )  
•  Hillsborough  - Nashua Public Library (229,239 )  
•  Rockingham - Derry Public Library (157,978 )  
•  Rockingham - Kelley Library (14,694 )  
•  Rockingham - Plaistow Public Library (47 )  
•  Rockingham - The Nesmith Library (66,454 )  
•  Strafford - Dover NH Public Library (13,785 )  
•  Strafford - Farmington News of Farmington New Hampshire (29,108 )  
•  Strafford - Lee Public Library (16,537 )  
•  Sullivan - Fiske Free Library (5,863 )  
•  Sullivan - Richards Free Library (129,191 )  

New Jersey

• Camden - Cherry Hills Public Library (61,685 )  

New York

• Albany - Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany (78,464 )  
•  Broome - George Johnson Memorial Library (148,662 )  
•  Broome - Lisle Free Library (12,950 )  
•  Broome - Mary L. Wilcox Memorial Library (35,660 )  
•  Cattaraugus - Allegany Public Library (29,813 )  
•  Cattaraugus - Saint Bonaventure University - Friedsam Memorial Library (39,624 )  
•  Cayuga - The Seymour Public Library (28,671 )  
•  Chenango - Afton Free Library (23,483 )  
•  Chenango - Bainbridge (NY) Historical Society (10,380 )  
•  Chenango - Guernsey Memorial Library (138,650 )  
•  Columbia - Roeliff Jansen Community Library (62,413 )  
•  Delaware - Sidney Memorial Library (107,451 )  
•  Jefferson - Roswell P Flower Memorial Library (3,518 )  
•  Madison - Cazenovia Public Library (134,087 )  
•  Madison - Oneida Public Library (3,974 )  
•  Nassau - Glen Cove Public Library (3,063 )  
•  Nassau - Hewlett Woodmere Public Library (108,069 )  
•  Nassau - Long Beach Public Library (1,882 )  
•  Nassau - Massepequa Public Library (34,498 )  
•  Onondoga - Fayetteville Free Library (68,717 )  
•  Onondoga - Marcellus Free Library (9,577 )  
•  Ontario - Pioneer Library System (80,059 )  
•  Orange - Albert Wisner Public Library (102,240 )  
•  Orange - Josephine - Louise Public Library (32,546 )  
•  Otsego - The Village Library of Morris (13,594 )  
•  Rensselaer - Troy Public Library (23,107 )  
•  Rockland - Nyack Library (798 )  
•  Steuben - Addison Public Library (8,216 )  
•  Steuben - Hornell Public Library (24,261 )  
•  Suffolk - Long Island Republic Airport Historical Society (2,847 )  
•  Sullivan - The Liberty Public Library (31,824 )  
•  Tompkins - Southworth Library (52,622 )  
•  Tompkins - Ulysses Philomathic Library (50,679 )  
•  Ulster - Saugerties Public Library (69,507 )  
•  Ulster - Woodstock Public Library (21,216 )  
•  Wayne - Clyde-Savannah Public Library (38,599 )  
•  Wayne - Sodus Community Library (39,169 )  
•  Wayne - Williamson Public Library (52,218 )  
•  Westchester - Chappaqua Public Library (93,377 )  
•  Westchester - Katonah Village Library (10,117 )  
•  Westchester - North Castle Public Library (17,329 )  
•  Westchester - Port Chester - Rye Brook Public Library (16,568 )  
•  Wyoming - Perry Public Library (59,738 )  
•  Wyoming - Stevens Memorial Library & The Attica Historical Society (35,531 )  

North Carolina

• Dare - Dare County Library (154,054 )  
•  Dare - Dare County Library (148,151 )  
•  Dare - Dare County Library (1,555 )  
•  Nash - Braswell Memorial Library (21,407 )  
•  Robeson - Mary Livermore Library (25,892 )  

Ohio

• Brown - Union Township Public Library (82,685 )  
•  Champaign - Champaign County Library (504,157 )  
•  Columbiana - Carnegie Public Library (35,922 )  
•  Columbiana - Lepper Public Library (212,478 )  
•  Erie - Huron Public Library (63,773 )  
•  Franklin - Southwest Public Libraries (63,441 )  
•  Franklin - Westland Area Library (36,127 )  
•  Fulton - Archbold Community Library (38,954 )  
•  Fulton - Swanton Public Library (60,439 )  
•  Hardin - Ada Public Library (106,352 )  
•  Hardin - Forest Jackson Public Library (1,325 )  
•  Holmes - Holmes County District Public Library (22,027 )  
•  Huron - Bellevue Public Library (280,856 )  
•  Huron - Huron County Community Library (231,973 )  
•  Lawrence - Briggs Lawrence County Public Library (10,683 )  
•  Licking - Mary Babcock Library (70,013 )  
•  Lorain - Avon Lake Public Library (1,841 )  
•  Mercer - Fort Recovery Public Library (18,807 )  
•  Ottawa - Oak Harbor Public Library (65,404 )  
•  Preble - Brown Memorial Library (37,532 )  
•  Richland - Marvin Memorial Library (214,351 )  
•  Seneca - Seneca East Public Library (43,113 )  
•  Stark - Stark County District Library (227,420 )  
•  Trumbull - McKinley Memorial Library (373,168 )  
•  Wayne - Wayne County Public Library (54,174 )  
•  Wood - Rossford Public Library (34,612 )  
•  Wood - Way Public Library (115,087 )  
•  Wood - Wayne Public Library (35,673 )  
•  Wood - Weston Public Library (32,766 )  
•  Wood - Wood County District Public Library (46,557 )  
•  Wyandot - Dorcas Carey Public Library (87,250 )  

Oklahoma

• Bryan - Donald W Reynolds Community Center & Library (176,478 )  
•  Kingfisher - Hennessey Public Library (73,564 )  
•  Texas - Guymon Public Library (324,916 )  

Oregon

• Coos - Flora M Laird Memorial Library (57,489 )  
•  Umatilla - The Weston Public Library (12,290 )  
•  Wallowa - Wallowa History Center (14,418 )  

Pennsylvania

• Chester - Spoke Newspaper (5,422 )  
•  Franklin - Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library (462,792 )  

Rhode Island

• Bristol - Bristol Phoenix (131,629 )  
•  Kent - East Greenwich Free Library (76,375 )  
•  Kent - Warwick Public Library (102,302 )  
•  Kent - West Warwick Public Library (9,424 )  
•  Newport - Jamestown Philomenian Library (14,721 )  
•  Washington - Island Free Library (22,040 )  
•  Washington - Maury Loontjens Memorial Library (3,281 )  
•  Washington - North Kingstown Library (117,423 )  

South Dakota

• Union - Beresford Public Library (62,412 )  

Texas

• Andrews - Andrews County Library (101,136 )  
•  Austin - Bellville Public Library (96,266 )  
•  Beeville - Joe Barnhart Bee County Library (135,570 )  
•  Blanco - Blanco County North and South Library Districts (24,363 )  
•  Cameron - Harlingen Public Library (283,403 )  
•  Camp - Pittsburg-Camp County Public Library (55,515 )  
•  Chambers - Chambers County Library System (47,697 )  
•  Colorado - Nesbitt Memorial Library (130,816 )  
•  Comal - New Braunfels Public Library (23,933 )  
•  Crane - Crane County Public Library (20,534 )  
•  Dallam - XIT Museum (298,714 )  
•  Frio - Dilley Public Library (29,603 )  
•  Galveston - Friendswood Public Library (37,812 )  
•  Grayson - Denison Public Library (38,748 )  
•  Hays - San Marcos Public Library (155,603 )  
•  Hidalgo - Speer Memorial Library (47,851 )  
•  Hood - Hood County Public Library (188,187 )  
•  Karnes - Kenedy Public Library (56,478 )  
•  Oldham - Oldham County Public Library (14,573 )  
•  Pecos - Fort Stockton Public Library (18,089 )  
•  Pecos - Iraan Public Library (10,088 )  
•  Reeves - Reeves County Library (3,897 )  
•  Scurry - Scurry County Library (15,425 )  
•  Swisher - Swisher County Public Library (60,474 )  
•  Tarrant - John Ed Keeter Public Library (9,327 )  
•  Tom Green - Tom Green County Library (23,235 )  
•  Trinity - Blanche K. Werner Library  (8,787 )  
•  Wichita - Electra Public Library (57,992 )  
•  Wichita - Wichita Falls Public Library (626,868 )  
•  Williamson - Eula Hunt Beck Florence Public Library (2,271 )  
•  Wood - Gilbreath Memorial Library (3,168 )  

Vermont

• Chittenden - Charlotte News (19,977 )  
•  Franklin - Arvin A Brown Public Library (12,910 )  
•  Lamoille - Stowe Free Library (6,027 )  
•  Rutland - Sherburne Memorial Library (1,400 )  

Virginia

• Frederick - Handley Regional Library (6,385 )  
•  Frederick - Wayside Theater (2,217 )  

West Virginia

• Mercer - Princeton Public Library (2,206 )  
•  Mineral - Potomac State College Mary Shipper Library (102,787 )  
•  Ohio - Ohio County Public Library (138,781 )  

Wisconsin

• Barron - Rice Lake Public Library (19,161 )  
•  Chippewa - Chippewa Falls Public Library (36,498 )  
•  Columbia - Kilbourn Public Library (137,117 )  
•  Dunn - Menomonie Public Library (34,950 )  
•  Jefferson - Irvin L Young Memorial Library (205,502 )  
•  Juneau - Elroy Public Library (118,900 )  

Happy Hunting!​

The State of North Dakota has just announced that they have received funding that will enable the state to add 100,000 historical newspaper pages to their collection in Chronicling America.  From the State Historical Society:

"The Archives Division of the State Historical Society of North Dakota has been awarded a fourth National Digital Newspaper Program grant of $246,605 from the National Endowment for the Humanities."

For the complete article, please click on Historical society awarded grant to digitize newspapers.



Terrific News from the State of North Dakota!

For access to historic newspapers from the state that are currently available for free online, please check out​​
North Dakota Online Historical Newspapers Summary.

The State of Delaware has just announced that they have received funding that will enable the state to add 100,000 historical newspaper pages to their collection in Chronicling America.  From the state:

"The University of Delaware Library has received a $253,869 two-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to continue its efforts of digitizing historic Delaware newspapers as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Once digitized, these newspapers will be freely accessible to the general public on the Library of Congress’ searchable, full-text database, Chronicling America.
​

With the help of its advisory board, the Library’s Delaware Digital Newspaper Project (DDNP) team has selected the two titles it will digitize and the issue dates it will choose from during this grant phase: Every Evening (1871-1922) and Evening Journal (1888-1922). Competing titles at the time, these newspapers eventually merged to form The News Journal that Delawareans know today."

For the complete article, please click on UD Library receives NEH grant to continue digitizing historic newspapers

Terrific News from the State of Delaware!


For access to historic newspapers from the state that are currently available for free online, please check out​​
Delaware Online Historical Newspapers Summary.

The State of Florida has just announced that they have received funding that will enable the state to add 100,000 historical newspaper pages for Florida and Puerto Rico to their collections in Chronicling America.  From the state:

"UF’s George A. Smathers Libraries recently received $310,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to make pages from historic newspapers from Florida and Puerto Rico available digitally. The grant supplements earlier awards of $288,000 in 2015 and $325,000 in 2013 for a total award $923,000, the single largest direct award ever received by the Libraries.  The funds will be used to digitize more than 100,000 additional pages as part of the Florida and Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project, a collaboration between UF and the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. By the project's conclusion, it aims to provide free online access to more than 300,000 pages dating from 1690 to 1963."

For the complete article, please click on With NEH grant, libraries preserve pages of the past

Terrific News from Florida and Puerto Rico!


For access to historic newspapers from the state that are currently available for free online, please check out​​Florida Online Historical Newspapers Summary.

FamilySearch continues to add or update their records collections at a fast pace for us to search.
​
For the period of August 1- 15, 2017,  the added/updated collections are:​​​​
​

• Belgium, Namur, Civil Registration, 1800-1912
• BillionGraves Index
• California, San Diego Passenger Lists, 1904-1952
• California, San Francisco, Immigration Office Special Inquiry Records, 1910-1941
• Chile, Cemetery Records, 1821-2015
• Dominican Republic Civil Registration, 1801-2010
• England and Wales Census, 1911
• England, Staffordshire, Church Records, 1538-1944
• Idaho, Southern Counties Obituaries, 1943-2013
• Kansas County Birth Records, 1885-1911
• Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954
• Liberia, Marriage Records, 1941-1974
• Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1837-1957
• Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Miscellaneous Records
• South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011​​​

​For a complete list of all added/updated collections, go to 

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list
​
I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for!

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 June, 2017. The largest collection for the state is Old Fulton New York Postcards which has significant updates every few months. I usually write an article alerting you to those updates as they are published.


​


​There is another fast growing site for New York that you should be aware of. And that is NY State Historic Newspapers. They are adding and updating titles at a very rapid rate and now have over 7.2 million pages available.

All of the counties in the state are now represented. It is brought to you by the Northern New York Library Network in partnership with the Empire State Library Network. You should take advantage of this resource and check back often.
​
Here are the latest added and updated newspapers included in the June and July, 2017 update

• Lackawanna Leader
• Buffalo Express
• Morning Express
• Buffalo Morning Express, 1849-55
• Buffalo Morning Express, 1878-1926
• Buffalo Morning Express and Daily Democracy
• Batavia Daily News
• The Daily News
• Daily News
• Daily Morning News
• The Ray
• The Clarion

For a complete list of all this collection's titles as well as all New York titles available online, go to New York Online Historical Newspapers Summary.

Good luck with your research!

For other states and additional Newspaper research resources, check out the Newspapers! page.

The State of West Virginia has just announced that they have received funding that will enable the state to add 100,000 historical newspaper pages to their collection in Chronicling America.  From the state:

"The West Virginia University Libraries’ West Virginia & Regional History Center has received a $210,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue digitizing newspapers published in West Virginia from 1836 to 1922.The award is the Libraries’ fourth NEH grant as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program. The collaboration between the NEH and the Library of Congress enlists libraries and institutions from around the country to create a digital database of historical United States newspapers.

“We are honored that the NEH recognizes the tremendous value of the historical newspapers archived in the WVRHC,” WVRHC Director John Cuthbert said. We are thrilled to make more of these resources accessible to the world. So far, the WVRHC has contributed 300,000 pages from 39 historic West Virginia newspapers."

“Newspapers are possibly the most significant single resource for studying the history of civilization since newspaper publishing began. They are a daily chronicle of what is happening in society,” Cuthbert said."
​
WVRHC Curator Stewart Plein said the grant will enable the Center to digitize 100,000 more newspaper pages. They will focus on a period of significant change with the opening of coalfields and the influx of African-Americans who migrated to West Virginia for jobs, and the expansion of the railroad and the corresponding birth of Huntington as a city developed to serve the exportation of coal."

For the complete article, please click on WVU Libraries receives fourth grant to digitize historical newspapers

Terrific News from the State of West Virginia!


For access to historic newspapers from the state that are currently available for free online, please check out​​
West Virginia Online Historical Newspapers Summary.

The State of Connecticut has just announced that they have received funding that will enable the state to add 100,000 historical newspaper pages to their collection in Chronicling America.  From the state:

"The Connecticut State Library is pleased to announce that it has received a supplemental grant award of $320,536 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to continue to digitize historically significant Connecticut newspapers through the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) over the next two years. This grant brings the total award amount the State Library has received for the project to $844,570.  The digital images will be included in the Library of Congress’ newspaper site: Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/.

I am very excited that the National Endowment for the Humanities has recognized the excellent work that is being done here at the State Library through the Connecticut Newspaper Project. This grant also recognizes the importance of adding Connecticut’s voice to the Chronicling America database. Everyone expects everything to be online today, but without financial support from federal agencies like the NEH, we wouldn’t be able to digitize the tens of thousands of newspaper pages that we have done over the past 4 years. – – State Librarian, Kendall Wiggin.

Following the NDNP guidelines, the grant will allow Connecticut to add another 100,000 pages, digitized from microfilm of newspapers published in the state between the new timeframe of 1690 and 1963.  The Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project advisory board will select the newspapers to be scanned."

For the complete article, please click on Connecticut State Library Receives Grant for Phase 3 of Newspaper Digitization

Great news for Connecticut newspaper researchers!


For access to historic newspapers from the state that are currently available for free online, please check out​​ 
Connecticut Online Historical Newspapers Summary

Did you know that there is a special collection for historic newspapers from the island countries in the Caribbean? It is called the Caribbean Digital Newspaper Library (CBNL), which is part of the Digital Library of the Caribbean​ (DLOC). DLOC has a wide variety of digitized materials as well as newspapers.





The CBNL Newspaper Library has about 220 different titles from most of the island countries in the Caribbean. If you have relatives or ancestors from the islands, it is definitely worth searching this free online historical newspaper collection.

In terrific news regarding Haiti historic newspapers, here is a summary of a new exciting project from the caribbeanhistories.com website:

"The British Library’s Endangered Archives programme contributes to the preservation of archival material that is in danger of destruction, neglect, or physical deterioration world-wide.  In exciting news for historians of Haiti, the Endangered Archives programme has just approved a grant to work with the Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Frères de l’Instruction Chrétienne (BHFIC) in Port-au-Prince to digitise ninety-one Haitian newspapers published between 1813 and 1913. As set out in the Project overview, the material in the collection has been identified as BHFIC staff as vulnerable to degradation."

The complete announcement  can be read by clicking on:

Endangered Archives: Digitising 19th Century Haitian Newspapers

Great news from the Caribbean for those of us who wish to research online historic newspapers (for free)!
 

Today (at least in the U.S.), only about 20% of all newspapers published have been digitized and are available on online sites. The other 80% still are only in newsprint or microfilm form.
​
But that 20% is growing, and the amount of newspaper digitization projects are growing also.  Whether they be commercial subscription sites, state wide projects, or small library digitization projects for just one newspaper, they all add up.
​



​Here is a list of new digitization efforts that are either in progress or are recently completed.  All are in the U.S. The link will take you to an article that describes in more detail the status of the project.

• Florida - With NEH grant, libraries preserve pages of the past
• Hawaii - The Maui News index almost ‘just a click away’
• Iowa - State grants to help southwest Iowa communities preserve the past
• Iowa - Mapleton library receives grant to digitize The Mapleton Press newspapers​
• Massachusetts - Derry Public Library efforts save history in digital form
• Missouri - Partee Wins Grant to Digitize Word&Way Archive​
• New Hampshire - Digital archive created for historical newspapers of the Monadnock Region
• New York - Read all about it: Concordy archives dating to 1877 now online
• North Carolina - Students help preserve copies of the Wilmington Record, burned by whites in 1898
• Oregon - First draft of history has been rescued​

• Washington - Historic Duvall newspapers, Duvall Citizen, Carnavall Reporter, now available online
• Wisconsin - Editions of early Unions now online

Hopefully the paper or location is in the area of your research!

​I'm sure there are more projects underway - these are just some that have written articles about them.

​If you know of more - please let us know in the comments.