FamilySearch continues to add or update their records collections at a fast pace for us to search.
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For the period of June 1- 30, 2017,  the added/updated collections are:​​​​

• Argentina, Mendoza, Catholic Church Records, 1665-1975
• Austria, Upper Austria, Linz, Death Certificates, 1818-1899
• Belgium, Limburg, Civil Registration, 1798-1906
• Belgium, Namur, Civil Registration, 1800-1912
• BillionGraves Index
• Bolivia Catholic Church Records, 1566-1996
• Brazil, Pernambuco, Civil Registration, 1804-2014
• Chile Civil Registration, 1885-1903
• China, Imperial Examinations and Related Papers (Han Yu-shan Collection), 1646-1904
• Costa Rica, Civil Registration, 1823-1975
• Dominican Republic Civil Registration, 1801-2010
• England, Cambridgeshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1599-1860
• Find A Grave Index
• Florida, Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home records, 1888-1938
• Florida, Spanish Land Grants, 1763-1821
• Florida, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919
• France, Coutances et d'Avranche Diocese, Catholic Parish Records, 1533-1894
• Hawaii Obituaries Index, ca. 1980-present
• Ireland Civil Registration, 1845-1913
• Italy, Chieti, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1866-1930
• Italy, Macerata, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1808-1814
• Italy, Modena, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1806-1942
• Kansas State Census, 1865
• Kansas State Census, 1875
• Kansas State Census, 1885
• Kansas State Census, 1895
• Lesotho, Evangelical Church Records, 1874-1983
• Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960
• Louisiana, Orleans Parish Vital Records, 1905-1913, 1955-1963
• Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1837-1957
• Michigan Obituaries, 1820-2006
• Missouri, Reports of Separation Notices, 1941-1946
• Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Miscellaneous Records
• New Hampshire, United States Naturalization Records, 1906-1993
• New York State Census, 1905
• New York, New York City Marriage Licenses Index, 1950-1995
• Nicaragua Civil Registration, 1809-2013
• Ohio, Crawford County Obituaries, 1860-2004
• Panama, Catholic Church Records, 1707-1973
• Peru, Amazonas, Civil Registration, 1939-1998
• Peru, Lambayeque, Civil Registration, 1873-1998
• Philippines Civil Registration (Local), 1888-1986
• Portugal, Coimbra, Civil Registration, 1893-1980
• Rhode Island Naturalization Records 1907-1991
• Russia, Samara Church Books, 1779-1923
• Russia, Simbirsk Poll Tax Census (Revision Lists), 1782-1858
• Scotland Church Records and Kirk Session Records, 1658-1919
• South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011
• South Africa, Transvaal, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1869-1958
• Spain, Province of Asturias, Municipal Records, 1470-1897
• Spain, Province of Barcelona, Municipal Records, 1387-1986
• Sweden, Stockholm City Archives, Index to Church Records, 1546-1927
• Texas, Eagle Pass Arrival Manifests and Indexes, 1905-1954
• United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925
• United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783
• Vermont Naturalization Records, 1908-1987
  

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

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

Seven years of the Montgomery Times, now called the African-American Times, renamed after its merge with the Prince Georges Times, are now online.

A cooperative project with Advantage-Preservation in Iowa has resulted in the online collection.  It can be searched at the Montgomery County Library site.

​The complete article - is found at LOCAL AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER COLLECTION AVAILABLE AT MCPL

Currently, these online historic newspapers cover the years 1992 to 1999.

About 400 new and updated Free Historic Newspaper Links have been added to the Southern States' free "newspaper link lists": These were all updated in June, 2017, and represent additions from the past 6 months.


Alabama - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/alabama-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Arkansas - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/arkansas-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Florida - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/florida-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Georgia - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/georgia-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Kentucky - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/kentucky-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Louisiana - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/louisiana-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Mississippi - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/mississippi-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Missouri - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/missouri-online-historical-newspapers-summary

North Carolina - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/north-carolina-online-historical-newspapers-summary

South Carolina - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/south-carolina-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Tennessee - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/tennessee-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Texas - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/texas-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Virginia - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/virginia-online-historical-newspapers-summary

West Virginia - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/west-virginia-online-historical-newspapers-summary

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I hope these new links help you find more newspaper articles about your ancestors!

Over 260 new and updated Free Historic Newspaper Links have been added to the Mid-Atlantic States' free "newspaper link lists": These were all updated in June, 2017, and represent additions from the past 6 months.


New York - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/new-york-online-historical-newspapers-summary1

Pennsylvania - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/pennsylvania-online-historical-newspapers-summary

New Jersey - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/new-jersey-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Virginia - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/virginia-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Delaware - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/delaware-online-historical-newspapers-summary

West Virginia - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/west-virginia-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Maryland - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/maryland-online-historical-newspapers-summary

District of Columbia - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/district-of-columbia-online-historical-newspapers-summary

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​I hope these new links help you find more newspaper articles about your ancestors!

​About 75 new and updated Free Historic newspaper Links have been added to the New England States' free "newspaper link lists": These were all updated in June, 2017, and represent additions from the past 6 months.

Connecticut - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/connecticut-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Maine - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/maine-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Massachusetts - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/massachusetts-online-historical-newspapers-summary

New Hampshire - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/new-hampshire-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Rhode Island - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/rhode-island-online-historical-newspapers-summary

Vermont - http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/vermont-online-historical-newspapers-summary

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​I hope these new links help you find more newspaper articles about your ancestors!

Wisconsin's Online Library just announced the addition of over 100,000 pages of online historic newspapers from six different Wisconsin communities.  The complete article can be found at More Historical Content Added to Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers.

Search is restricted to those who have access to the state-wide online library BadgerLink, which is only available to Wisconsin residents.





The added titles are as follows:

• Belleville Recorder 1887-1923
• Badger State Banner 1868-1926
• Banner Journal 1931-1938
• Evansville Badger 1898-1906
• Evansville Enterprise 1895-1911
• Evansville Review 1899-1932
• Evansville Tribune 1899-1908
• Jackson County Banner 1867-1868
• Jefferson County Union 1870-1918
• Prairie du Chien Courier Press 1852-1922
• Marinette and Peshtigo Eagle 1871-1896

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Happy hunting and good luck!

The Library of Virginia and the Virginia Newspaper Project have collaborated to make available online, many newspapers published in Virginia from the various Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps throughout the state from 1934 to 1941.

The complete announcement of the new collection is available at VNP ANNOUNCES THE CCC.

Here is a list of the current Virginia CCC newspapers available  (41 in total):
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• 339th dodo (Rose Hill, VA, 1936)
• 352nd Observer (Yorktown, VA, 1936)
• Alleghanian (Covington, VA, 1939-1940)
• Backbone Star (Damascus, VA, 1935-1937)
• Battlefield News (Fredericksburg, VA, 1938-1939)
• Beacon (Wawayanda, VA, 1936)
• Big Meadows Beacon (Luray, VA, 1939-1940)
• Big Timber Times (Big Timber, MT, 1935-1937)
• Blatherskite (Waterville, PA, 1934-1936)
• Blowout (Fredericksburg, VA, 1935)
• Camp Sherando Wind Jammer (Lyndhurst, VA, 1939-1941)
• Camp Victory Crier (Yorktown, VA, 1940)
• Captain and the Kids (Cleveland, VA, 1937-1938)
• Captain and the Kids (Cleveland, VA, 1936)
• Cedarhurst News (Clinchport, VA, 1940)
• Clinch Valley Crow (Cleveland, VA, 1936-1937)
• Company 247 News (Williamsburg, VA, 1934)
• Excelsior (Clover, VA, 1936-1940)
• Fairy Stone (Bassett, VA, 1935)
• Flagpole News (Skyland, VA, 1936-1939)
• Gully Gleanings (Jonesville, VA, 1935)
• Jamestown Dragon (Williamsburg, VA, 1934-1935)
• Kay's Hill Tower (Minerva, NY, 1935)
• Knob (Woolwine, VA, 1940)
• Monarch (Wawayanda, NY, 1936)
• North-River-Daily (Mount Solon, VA, 1938)
• Oasis (Fort Story, VA, 1935)
• Out of the Wilderness (Wilderness, VA, 1937-1938)
• Pow-Wow (Luray, VA, 1935-1936)
• Rocky Hollow (Woolwine, VA, 1939)
• Roosevelt News Letter (Edinburg, VA, 1935-1936)
• Rooseveltian (Edinburg, VA, 1936-1940)
• Sand-Spring Owl (Lyndhurst, VA, 1934-1936)
• Skyline News (Luray, VA, 1937-1938)
• Spirit of '76 (Bedford, VA, 1935)
• Spring Owl (Lyndhurst, VA, 1934)
• Tow Path Journal (Cabin John, MD, 1939)
• Tracy Daily Tattler (Mount Solon, VA, 1937-1938)
• Tracy-Tattler (Mount Solon, VA, 1935-1937)
• Voice of 389 (Salem, VA, 1935)
• Whispering Breeze (Clinchport, VA, 1937)

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This is a terrific collection that provides readers a flavor of this part of Virginia's history.

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.


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​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 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.
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Here are the latest added and updated newspapers included in Summer, 2017 (14 titles):​

• Union College - The Concordiensis
• Ravena News
• Jamestown Daily Journal
• Jamestown Evening Journal
• The Evening Journal
• Jamestown Journal
• Coeymans Herald 
• The News-Herald
• Greenwich Journal
• Lake George Mirror
• Onondaga Register
• Rushville Chronicle
• Chronicle-Express
• Port Jervis Daily Union

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.

​To become a successful historic newspaper researcher, you need to make a small investment in time to learn the "tricks of the trade."

Here are 3 downloadable one page Quick Reference Guides that will help you!
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9 Steps to Success in Searching Old Newspapers for Your Ancestors

Searching for articles about your ancestors online in old newspapers really is pretty easy.  The problem is that it is so easy that researchers who don't understand the process of getting old newspapers to be scanned and indexed will miss many positive results.  Optical Character Recognition (OCR) often does not pick up the exact letters in a name or word that you are searching, for a variety of reasons.  Anyway, there are a variety of tricks that will greatly enhance your chances of finding articles about your ancestors.

​Download this Quick Reference Guide in pdf format at the link below and apply the tips and you will be more successful.  

Click below to download the pdf file

10 Clever Ways to Find More Ancestor Articles While Searching Old Newspapers
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As an aficionado of newspaper research for genealogy and family history, I have done a lot of searching. Most recently it has been of the online variety. One can be quite successful in spite of the limitations of poor quality source material, scanning deficiencies and OCR limitations. The best results are usually because of good planning, rather than simple surname searching and hoping. Here are a few tips and techniques that you can employ to find that elusive ancestor article that you may have been trying to find. 

​Download this Quick Reference Guide in pdf format at the link below and apply the tips and you will be more successful.  
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Click below to download the pdf file​

The Best Way to Find Hidden Newspaper Articles
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If you search online for newspaper articles, you know that it is often challenging.  This is primarily because OCR is not perfect and that old newsprint can often have creases, tears, ink spots and other errors. This creates an index that often is filled often with a mumbo jumbo of letters that do not result in accurate names and the like when the index is created.  Thus your searches may not include all the articles that you seek.

This can easily be remedied by YOU!  Just change the letters in the search criteria and DELIBERATELY misspell. Refer to this collection of letter pairs as shown in the Quick Reference Guide that you can download below.  You will get much better results, guaranteed.

Download this Quick Reference Guide in pdf format at the link below and apply the tips and you will be more successful.  
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Click below to download the pdf file​

Good Luck - and Happy Hunting!

Just announced by the state of North Carolina:

"North Carolina Historic Newspapers will digitize runs from the following newspaper titles in 2017/18, totaling approximately 100,000 pages. These will be added to the over 200,000 pages of historic North Carolina newspapers pages already available on the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America newspaper site."



The papers to be added include:

• The Hillsborough Recorder, Hillsborough
• The Independent, Elizabeth City
• Henderson Daily Dispatch, Henderson
• Tabor City Tribune, Tabor City
• The Onslow County News and Views, Jacksonville
• Marion Progress, Marion
• Old Fort News, Old Fort
• The Times-News, Hendersonville
• Carolina Watchman, Salisbury
• The Wilmington Morning Star, Wilmington
• Roanoke Rapids Herald, Roanoke Rapids

For the entire article, please go to NC Newspaper Article.

This is great news as it increases the size of the North Carolina collection in Chronicling America, and it sounds like they will be adding newspapers for the years of 1923-1963 as part of this addition.