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.

Chronicling America is the definitive places to locate newspaper collections in America. There also is an excellent capability available to search over 12 million digitized newspaper pages from over 40 states. 

​The 12 million page mark was just met this month, so to celebrate I have embedded 3 YouTube training videos the I created so you can make best use of Chronicling America. Together there are about 25 minutes that you can watch.

There are additional resources that one should know about, besides searching.


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The first resource to be aware of is the U.S. Newspaper Directory, which provides detailed information for over 154,000 newspaper publications and what libraries and archives hold them. Since only a small percentage of newspapers are in digital form, this is excellent information for the serious researcher. Below is a video that shows you how to find these offline collections and where to find the microfilms and original newsprint for those collections:

For the second resource, the video below shows you exactly how to find what collections are available for you to search online in the site, including collections by state, by ethnicity, and by language:
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And yes, there are over 12 million pages that can be searched online. Below is a comprehensive video tutorial that shows you all the features and options that you need to know about in order to more easily and successfully navigate the site and search for articles about your ancestors:
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There are newspapers from over 40 states and the collection is always growing. Some of the states that are represented have additional state and/or county-based collections not affiliated with the Chronicling America site, thus providing even more digitized newspapers to search. And there are also state and county-based digital collections for the states that are not represented in the national Chronicling America collection.

Please take a look at the Newspaper Research Links page in this, The Ancestor Hunt site for the aforementioned additional state resources as well as some special collections, such as German, Catholic, Jewish, Farming, and African-American newspapers.

In February, 2017, I published a list of the catalog of online historical newspapers from over 400 different collections put together by the Advantage Preservation Company, developed in conjunction with the libraries, historical societies and museums across the U.S. who preserve the historical newspapers for their communities. To see the entire list go to Search 40 Million Historic U.S. Newspaper Pages for Free! It totals over 40 million pages from 37 states from the U.S.


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As of early May, 2017 another 3 million pages were added - ​ 15 new collections, and additions to 76 of their current collections - Advantage Preservation Adds 3 Million Historical Newspaper Pages.

As of early June, 2017, another 1.5 million pages added. Here are the new County and Library collections that were added after the previous Advantage Preservation update, followed by the collections that have had additional newspapers added to their collections in the last month. 


​New County and Library Collections (listed by county; number of issues in parentheses)

Georgia
Colquitt County
Moultrie Colquitt County Library

• Moultrie Observer (46582)

Iowa
Grundy County
Conrad Museum

• Beaman Journal (17)
• Conrad Journal (352)
• Conrad Record (959)
• Grundy Register (20)
• Record (24)

Montgomery County
Red Oak Community

• ​Montgomery County Independent (572)
• Red Oak Daily Express (64)
• Red Oak Daily Independent (16)
• Red Oak Express (150912)
• Red Oak Independent (1289)
• Red Oak Republican (1803)
• Sun (18992)

Kentucky
Green County
Green County Public Library

• ​Green County Record (9933)
• Greensburg Herald (26)
• Greensburg Record Herald (69708)
• Greensburg Times (32)
• Kentucky Republican (6)
• Metcalfe County Herald (8)
• Record Herald (4325)

Maryland
Montgomery County
Montgomery County Public Libraries​

• African American Times (108)
• Montgomery Times (1040)

Nebraska
Pierce County
Lied Pierce Public Library

• Pierce County Call (26055)
• Pierce County Leader (61942)
• The Pierce Times-Call (240)

New York
Chenango County
Bainbridge (NY) Historical Society

• Bainbridge News (2964)
• Bainbridge News and Bainbridge Republican (3853)
• Bainbridge Republican (2070)
• Bainbridge Republican and Express (1259)
• Bainbridge Republican and Saturday Review (234)

Rhode Island
Kent County
West Warwick Public Library

• Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner (9424)

Texas
Reeves County
Reeves County Library

• Eagle (3897)

Williamson County
Eula Hunt Beck Florence Public Library

• Florence Vidette (2271)

West Virginia
Mineral County
​Potomac State College Mary Shipper Library

• Mineral Daily News and Keyser Tribune (8)
• Mineral Daily News Tribune (74789)
• Mineral Daily News Tribune and Echo (9328)
• Mineral Daily News Tribune and Mountain Echo (7080)
• Mineral News Tribune and Echo (5495)
• News Tribune and Mountain Echo (228)
• Pasquino (5301)
• Potomac State Pasquino (558)

Updated Collections
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Here is a list by state and county of the online collections that have pages added in the last month that are available to search for free:

Idaho

• Cassio -  Burley Public Library

Illinois

• Whiteside -  Erie Illinois Public Library 

Iowa

• Allamakee -  Postville Public Library 
• Appanoose -  Centerville Iowegian 
• Buchanan -  Jesup Public Library 
• Crawford -  Norelius Community Library 
• Fayette -  Elgin Public Library 
• Guthrie -  Bayard Public Library 
• Guthrie -  Mary Burnett Memorial Library 
• Hamilton -  Hamilton County 
• Harrison -  Missouri Valley Public Library 
• Kossuth -  Algona Public Library 
• Linn -  Cedar Rapids Public Library 
• Palo Alto -  Palo Alto County 
• Wright -  Clarion Public Library 

Kansas

• Brown -  Morrill Public Library 
• Cowley -  Arkansas City Public Library 
• Seward -  Seward Memorial Library 

Louisiana

• Acadia -  Acadia Parish Library 
• Concordia -  Concordia Parish Public Library 

Maine

• Cumberland -  Bridgton Public Library 
• Penobscot -  Old Town Public Library 

Massachusetts

• Essex -  Newburyport Public Library 

Montana

• Yellowstone -  Billings Public Library 

Nebraska

• Seward -  Seward Memorial Library 

Nevada

• Douglas -  Douglas County Public Library 

New Hampshire

• Sullivan -  Richards Free Library 

New York

• Chenango -  Guernsey Memorial Library 
• Onondoga -  Marcellus Free Library 
• Orange -  Albert Wisner Public Library 
• Rensselaer -  Troy Public Library 
• Westchester -  North Castle Public Library 

Ohio

• Brown -  Union Township Public Library 

Texas

• Andrews -  Andrews County Library 
• Beeville -  Joe Barnhart Bee County Library 
• Dallam -  XIT Museum 
• Hidalgo -  Speer Memorial Library 
• Pecos -  Iraan Public Library 
• Swisher -  Swisher County Public Library 
• Wichita -  Electra Public Library 
• Wichita -  Wichita Falls Public Library 

West Virginia

• Ohio -  Ohio County Public Library