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Advantage Preservation Adds 1.5 Million Historical Newspaper Pages - May, 2018

6/20/2018

In February, 2017, I published for the first time, 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. Every month, I have been publishing the added collections produced by Advantage Preservation. To see the entire updated list, click on 50 Million Historic U.S. Newspaper Pages Now Available from Advantage Preservation That Can Be Searched for Free!

Here are the new County and Library collections that were added In May, 2018, 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; includes publication title, and number of issues or pages, and years of publication in the online collection):

Iowa

Butler County
Kothe Memorial Library

Eclipse News Review
(1969-2003) 27,146 Pages
Parkersburg Eclipse
(1872-1969) 26,884 Pages

Johnson County
Iowa City Public Library

Iowa City Daily Press
41,858 Pages
1904-1920
Iowa City Republican
35,247 Pages
1856-1921
Iowa City Daily Republican
29,156 Pages
1876-1916
Iowa Citizen
12,335 Pages
1808-1907
Iowa City Press Citizen
11,826 Pages
1920-1924
Iowa City Daily Citizen
11,418 Pages
1916-1920
Slovan Americky
11,052 Pages
1873-1897
Daily Press
10,186 Pages
1872-1880
Iowa State Press
9,582 Pages
1866-1903
Iowa City Weekly Republican
8,659 Pages
1884-1902
Daily Iowa State Press
8,394 Pages
1899-1904
Iowa City Citizen
8,112 Pages
1907-1916
Daily Iowan
6,898 Pages
1905-1915
Iowa City Post
6,750 Pages
1881-1902
Daily Citizen
1,585 Pages
1892-1893
Slovan Amerikansky
1,334 Pages
1870-1873
Iowa City Herald
1,307 Pages
1894-1901
Johnson County Teacher
1,168 Pages
1890-1905
State Democratic Press
1,110 Pages
1860-1871
State Press
1,094 Pages
1864-1868
Johnson County Independent
1,020 Pages
1912-1916
Iowa Republican
971 Pages
1849-1854
Daily Evening Press
828 Pages
1871-1871
Iowa Capital Reporter
783 Pages
1846-1855
Besidka Slovana
749 Pages
1877-1885
Iowa Capitol Reporter
720 Pages
1841-1846
Iowa Farm Republic
634 Pages
1920-1921
Iowa Weekly Republican
620 Pages
1856-1862
Iowa Post
520 Pages
1902-1903
Iowa Banner
504 Pages
1899-1900
Red and White
452 Pages
1920-1925
Iowa State Weekly Reporter
440 Pages
1859-1861
Iowa City Volksfreund
416 Pages
1874-1876
Iowa State Letter
413 Pages
1916-1916
Daily Evening Reporter
340 Pages
1856-1856
Iowa City Journal
319 Pages
1879-1880
Iowa Anti Monopolist
319 Pages
1873-1874
Johnson County News
292 Pages
1923-1923
Independent Herald
290 Pages
1893-1894
Weekly Herald
240 Pages
1891-1893
Daily State Press
191 Pages
1894-1894
Iowa City Daily News
144 Pages
1906-1907
Iowa City Daily Bulletin
140 Pages
1865-1865
Weekly State Reporter
134 Pages
1858-1859
Iowa City Evening Republican
117 Pages
1903-1904
Legislative Reporter
74 Pages
1854-1855
Daily Crescent
72 Pages
1857-1857
State Reporter and National Crescent
40 Pages
1857-1857
County Herald
31 Pages
1891-1891
Weekly Iowa Capital Reporter
28 Pages
1855-1857
Iowa Daily Citizen
20 Pages
1892-1892
Press
8 Pages
1901-1901
Iowa Tribune
4 Pages
1869-1869
Iowa Weekly Tribune
4 Pages
1870-1870
Tri Weekly Capital Reporter
4 Pages
1856-1856

Story County
Ames Public Library

Ames Daily Tribune
142,754 Pages
1938-1987
Ames Daily Tribune and Times
45,240 Pages
1919-1938
Ames Intelligencer
8,985 Pages
1877-1911
Ames Evening Times
7,956 Pages
1912-1919
Ames Times
6,433 Pages
1892-1912
Ames Weekly Tribune
1,784 Pages
1914-1918
Ames Daily Intelligencer
1,509 Pages
1911-1913
Ames Tri Weekly Tribune
742 Pages
1918-1919

Nevada Iowa Archive

Nevada Evening Journal
100,139 Pages
1906-1984
Nevada Journal
62,604 Pages
1899-2014
Nevada Representative
21,848 Pages
1873-1926
Story County Watchman
7,195 Pages
1878-1901
Watchman
2,940 Pages
1901-1906
Nevada Evening Journal And The Nevada Representative
1,658 Pages
1927-1928
Story County Aegis
907 Pages
1863-1868
Story County Representative
904 Pages
1870-1873
Journal
180 Pages
1971-1972
Representative
90 Pages
1917-1917
Nevada Watchman
86 Pages
1876-1877
Evening Journal
22 Pages
1967-1968

Kansas
Lyon Couny
Emporia Public Library

Emporia Gazette

(1978-1979) 16,300 Pages

Massachusetts
Essex County
Topsfield Library

Tri Town Transcript

(2003-2003) 1,230 Pages

Middlesex County
Hudson Public Library

Hudson Daily Sun
(1940-1949) 12,238 Pages
Hudson News Enterprise
(1939-1946) 3,263 Pages
News Enterprise
(1946-1949) 1,094 Pages

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

Connecticut

Litchfield - Scoville Memorial Library

Georgia

Morgan - Uncle Remus Regional Library System

Idaho

Clearwater - Elk River Free Library

Illinois

Iowa

Benton - Vinton Public Library & the Benton County Historical Society
Buena Vista - Storm Lake Public Library
Clarke - Oseola Public Library
Fayette - West Union Community Library
Greene - Jefferson Public Library
Guthrie - Mary Burnett Memorial Library
Jones - Jones County Genealogical Society
Linn - Coe College
Linn - Marion Public Library
Monona - Mapleton Public Library
Monroe - Monroe County Historical Society
Pocahontas - Pocahontas Public Library
Washington - Kalona Public Library
Washington - Washington County Library Association

Kansas

Louisiana

Vermillion - Vermilion Parish Library

Maine

Aroostook - Fort Fairfield Public Library
York - Springvale Public Library and Goodall Memorial Library

Massachusetts

Montana

Yellowstone - Billings Public Library

Nebraska

Holt - Atkinson Library

Nevada

Douglas - Douglas County Public Library

New Hampshire

Hillsborough - Wadleigh Memorial Library
Rockingham - Kelley Library

New York

Chenango - Bainbridge (NY) Historical Society
Rensselaer - Troy Public Library

Ohio

Wood - Way Public Library

Rhode Island

Bristol - Bristol Phoenix
Providence - Greenville Public Library

Texas

West Virginia

Ohio - Ohio County Public Library

If you wish to see a complete list of links to historical newspapers that are searchable for free from companies like Advantage Preservation and many others, check out Newspaper Links.

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23,300 Total FREE U.S. Historical Newspaper Links - Second 2018 Update

6/10/2018

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On this website, the first set of free online links to U.S. historical newspapers was published in February, 2014. Updates were added in June, 2015, December, 2015, June, 2016, February 2017, July, 2017, December, 2017 and March, 2018.

This second update of 2018 adds another 1,200 titles.

The grand total is over 23,300 FREE links to historical American newspapers!

More and more newspapers are being digitized and are being made available for all of us to research. Some are full-text searchable and others are browsable.

I will continue to follow the digitization activities across the country and hope to publish the next update in summer of 2018.

You need to know where these links to new and updated collections can be found, so that you can discover articles about your ancestors. Hopefully these 51 articles full of free links will assist you in your discovery and research.

To search the new (and old) and updated links, choose your state link below and see all the newspapers that are available for you to research.

(Please note - there may be more that I have not yet discovered, and if you are aware of some that I have not included, please let me know in the comments)

Happy Hunting!

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250 Free Mid-Atlantic States Online Historic Newspaper Titles Added

6/9/2018

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About 250 new and updated Free Historic Newspaper Links have been added to the Mid-Atlantic States' free "newspaper link lists": These were all updated in May, 2018, and represent additions from the past 3 months. I am now adding links from College and University newspapers as well.

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

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225 Free Western States Online Historic Newspaper Titles Added

6/9/2018

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About 225 new and updated Free Historic Newspaper Links have been added to the Western States' free "newspaper link lists": These were all updated in May, 2018, and represent additions from the past 3 months. I am now adding links from College and University newspapers as well.

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

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330 Free Mid West States Online Historic Newspaper Titles Added

6/7/2018

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About 330 new and updated Free Historic Newspaper Links have been added to the Midwestern States' free "newspaper link lists": These were all updated in May, 2018, and represent additions from the past 3 months. I am now adding links from College and University newspapers as well.

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

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275 Free Southern States Online Historic Newspaper Titles Added

6/5/2018

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About 275 new and updated Free Historic Newspaper Links have been added to the Southern States' free "newspaper link lists": These were all updated in May, 2018, and represent additions from the past 3 months. I am now adding links from College and University newspapers as well.

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

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126 Obituary and Obituary Index Links from Canada

6/5/2018

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One of the main goals for genealogists in searching historic newspapers is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information and sometimes mote importantly - information about the relatives of the deceased's family and extended family. This family name information is often not found anywhere else.

During May and June, 2018 I have been updating the links to online obituary and obituary index collections that are available to search for free. There are a total of 126 online database links that I have found for Canada. Of these, 41 have been added since the previous update.

So not only can we search old newspapers for these gems, we can get transcriptions and get directed to the location of the obituaries from these indexes. Please be aware that if you find a desired obituary in an index, that the holder of the actual

Here are alternative means to newspaper searching to find obituary information, listed by the link to each province's list of free links. Please be aware that if you find a desired obituary in an index, that the holder of the actual obituary (e.g., library or genealogical society) may charge a small fee to send you a copy of the obituary itself.

(Updated June, 2018; added links are in Bold)

(Please note that there are a substantial number of obituary indexes available via RootsWeb. This site is currently unavailable and undergoing a significant re-construction. I will add these record indexes in a future update when RootsWeb comes back online)

General Canada

Royal Canadian Legion Obituary Index

Alberta

If you wish to search this province's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Alberta Online Historical Newspapers Summary

British Columbia

British Columbia Obituaries (Links to obituary collections from over 100 BC newspapers)
Canadian Obituaries Forum - BRITISH COLUMBIA
Canadian Obits - British Columbia (scroll to top)
Coquitlam Obituary Indexes
BC Local New Obituaries 1978 -
Kamloops Newspapers Obituary Index 1987-
Kelowna & District Genealogical Society Obituary Index
Mennonite Brethren Herald Obituaries: 1961-2010
Parksville/Qualicum Obituaries 1948 to 1994
Vancouver Sun Obituaries & Guest Books
Victoria Newspapers, 1858-1936
Victoria Daily Times, Death Notices Index 1901-1939

If you wish to search this province's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on British Columbia Online Historical Newspapers Summary

Manitoba

Canadian Obituaries Forum - MANITOBA
Canadian Obits - Manitoba (scroll to top)
Crandall Obituaries (transcriptions)
Brandon Obituaries
Brandon Sun Obituaries 2008-
Manitoba Obits
University of Manitoba Retirees Obituaries (transcriptions)
Winnipeg Free Press Passages

If you wish to search this province's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Manitoba Online Historical Newspapers Summary

New Brunswick

Canadian Obituaries Forum - NEW BRUNSWICK
Canadian Obits - New Brunswick (scroll to top)
Daniel F Johnson's New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics
Fredericton Daily Gleaner - Burial Permit Listing 1902-1903; 1908-1911; 1915-1919
Index To Death Roll of the St. John Globe Newspaper 1897 - 1926
Kings County Record Newspaper: Death Index, 1897-1936
Mgr Donat Robichaud Genealogical and Historical Research Collection
Misc. New Brunswick Obits 1878-1886. Abstracted from The Dominion Annual Register and Review.
New Brunswick, Canada Obituaries and Death Notices Collection
Restigouche County Obituaries
Telegraph Journal Obituaries

If you wish to search this province's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on New Brunswick Online Historical Newspapers Summary

Newfoundland and Labrador

Canadian Obituaries Forum - NEWFOUNDLAND
Canadian Obits - Newfoundland (scroll to top)
Newfoundland Canada Obituaries
Newfoundland, Canada Obituaries and Death Notices Collection
Newfoundland Obituaries Transcribed
Newfoundland Obituaries from Nova Scotia Newspapers (transcriptions)

If you wish to search this province's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Newfoundland and Labrador Online Historical Newspapers Summary

Nova Scotia

Canadian Obituaries Forum - NOVA SCOTIA
Canadian Obits - Nova Scotia (scroll to top)
Cape Breton Obituaries
Nova Scotia Obituaries
Pictou County Roots Society Obituary Index
Nova Scotia Obituaries - Elizabeth Logan Collection (clippings)
Guysborough County Cemeteries

If you wish to search this province's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Nova Scotia Online Historical Newspapers Summary

Ontario

If you wish to search this province's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Ontario Online Historical Newspapers Summary

Prince Edward Island

Canadian Obituaries Forum - PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Canadian Obits - Prince Edward Island (scroll to top)

Island Register Obituary Book
Island Register Stray Book
Belfast, P.E.I. Scrapbook, 1901-1912
P.E.I. Memorial Scrapbook
Prince Edward Island Deaths and Obituaries (more current transcriptions)

If you wish to search this province's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Prince Edward Island Online Historical Newspapers Summary

Quebec

Canadian Obituaries Forum - QUEBEC
Canadian Obits - Quebec (scroll to top)
Avis de décès en ligne/Online Obituaries
Centenaires Decedes
Keneder Adler (1908–1932) (Transcribed obituaries)
Généalogie Québec - Death Notices (Over 1.4 million obits)
Missisquoi Cowansville Observer Newspaper Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1872-1908 (transcriptions)

If you wish to search this province's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Quebec Online Historical Newspapers Summary

Saskatchewan

Saskatoon Obituary Index : 1946 Onward
Saskatchewan News Index 1884-2000 (obituary index items)
Saskatoon Star Phoenix Obituaries (1987-)

If you wish to search this province's historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Saskatchewan Online Historical Newspapers Summary

Good Luck and Happy Hunting!

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