The Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan has just announced that they will be adding World War 2 era historical newspapers to the Saskatchewan Historic Newspapers Online website.

This is part of the Archives' goal of having 160 community newspapers digitized and available by the end of 2020.

Read the entire press release HERE.

You can find links to the current Archives' site as well as other freely searchable historical newspapers from the province at Saskatchewan Online Historical Newspapers Summary.

The Digital Library of Georgia just announced that 119 titles will be added during the fall of 2019 to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website.  The complete announcement can be found HERE.

The announcement also discusses where the funding for each of the added titles came from. 

Here is a list of the titles:

R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation-funded newspaper titles:

• Air-Line Eagle (Gainesville), 1861-1869
• American Democrat (Macon), 1843-1844
• American Union (Macon), 1869-1872
• Army and Navy Herald (Macon), 1865
• Atlanta Constitution, 1872-1886
• Atlanta Daily Register, 1864
• Atlanta Independent, 1872
• Augusta Weekly Press, 1869
• Bainbridge Argus, 1870
• Bainbridge Weekly Sun, 1872-1874
• Banner of the South and the Planters Journal (Augusta), 1870-1872
• Banner of the South (Augusta), 1868-1870
• Bee (Savannah), 1865
• Brunswick Advocate (Brunswick), 1837-1839
• Burkes’ Weekly for Boys and Girls (Macon), 1867-1870
• Business Circular (Savannah), 1867
• Calhoun Weekly Times, 1870-1874
• Carroll County Times (Carrollton), 1872-1873, 1876-1877
• Cartersville Express, 1867
• Cartersville Express, 1868-1873
• Chattooga Advertiser (Summerville), 1871-1872
• Cherokee Georgian (Dalton), 1867
• Christian Index & South-Western Baptist (Atlanta), 1867-1871
• Columbus Daily Times, 1861-1864
• Columbus Times, 1864-1865
• Commonwealth (Atlanta), 1861-1862
• Cuthbert Weekly Appeal (Cuthbert), 1869-1873
• Daily Bulletin (LaGrange), 1864
• Daily Commonwealth (Atlanta), 1863
• Daily Constitutionalist (Augusta), 1870-1872
• Daily Evening Mirror (Macon), 1866
• Daily Intelligencer (Atlanta), 1861
• Daily Loyal Georgian (Augusta), 1867
• Daily New Era (Atlanta), 1866-1871
• Daily Press (Augusta), 1866-1867
• Daily Register (Augusta), 1864
• Daily Southern Herald (Griffin), 1866
• Daily Sun (Columbus), 1861-1865
• Dawson Journal, 1866-1868
• Dawson Weekly Journal, 1871-1877
• Democrat (Columbus), 1830-1832
• Elberton Gazette, 1866-1869
• Evening Journal (Savannah), 1872
• Examiner (Covington), 1866
• Fairburn Gazette, 1871
• Fairburn Sentinel, 1871-1872
• Fairburn Waif, 1872
• Freeman’s Standard (Savannah), 1868
• Georgia Collegian (Athens), 1870-1872
• Georgia Courier (Augusta), 1830-1833
• Georgia Crusader (Atlanta), 1861
• Georgia Enterprise (Covington), 1865-1873
• Georgia Herald, 1869-1870
• Georgia Jeffersonian and Griffin Gazette, 1842
• Georgia Journal and Messenger (Macon), 22, 1862- 1869
• Georgia Mirror (Florence), 1838-1839
• Georgia Statesman (Milledgeville), 1825-1827
• Georgia Times and State Right’s Advocate (Milledgeville), 1833-1834
• Georgia Weekly (Greenville), 1861
• Greensboro Herald, 1867-1875
• Griffin Semi-Weekly Star, 1868-1872
• Griffin Tri-Weekly Star, 1866-1868
• Hawkinsville Dispatch, 1867-1874
• Independent Press (Eatonton), 1854-1855
• Jefferson News and Farmer (Louisville), 1871-1875
• Louisville Gazette, 1861
• Macon Daily Confederate, 1864
• Macon Daily Journal and Messenger (Macon), 1865-1869
• Madison Family Visitor, 1856
• Marietta Advocate, 1863
• McDuffie Weekly Journal (Thomson), 1872-1876
• Methodist Advocate (Atlanta), 1869-1878
• Middle Georgian (Griffin), 1869
• Mirror (Florence), 1839-1840
• Monroe Advocate, 1871
• National Republican (Augusta), 1868
• Pacificator (Augusta), 1864-1865
• Palmetto Gazette, 1871-1872
• Quitman Banner, 1866-1873
• Republic (Macon), 1844-1845
• Rome Tri-Weekly Commercial, 1869
• Savannah Daily Advertiser, 1867-1872
• Savannah Daily Herald, 1865- 1866
• Savannah Daily Loyal Georgian, 1864
• Southern Christian Advocate (Macon), 1866-1878
• Southern Courant (Washington), 1845
• Southern Cultivator (Athens), 1867-1870
• Southern Enterprise (Thomasville), 1867
• Southern Georgian (Bainbridge), 1866, 1869
• Southern Herald (Griffin), 1866
• Southern Museum (Macon), 1848-1850
• Southern Post (Macon), 1837-1839
• Southern Republic (Augusta), 1861
• Southern Spy (Washington), 1834-1835
• Southern Sun (Bainbridge), 1870-1872
• Southern Tribune (Macon), 1850-1851
• Southern Witness (Monroe), 1870-1871
• Thomaston Herald, 1870-1873
• Thomson Advertiser (Thomson), 1869-1871
• Times and State’s Rights Advocate (Milledgeville), 1833
• Tri-Weekly Constitutionalist (Augusta), 1867-1870
• Tri-Weekly News and Herald (Savannah), 1867-1868
• Tri-Weekly Sumter Republican (Americus), 1866-1867
• Walton Casket (Monroe), 1871
• Walton Journal (Social Circle), 1870-1871
• Washington Gazette, 1866-1876
• Weekly Cartersville Express, 1867
• Weekly Catoosa Courier (Ringgold), 1872
• Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel (Augusta), 1861-1874
• Weekly Constitutionalist (Augusta), 1865- 1877
• Weekly Constitutionalist (Augusta), 1867-1868
• Weekly Independent South (Waynesboro), 1861
• Weekly Loyal Georgian (Augusta), 1867-1868
• Weekly Republican and Discipline (Atlanta), 1856
• Weekly Savannah Republican, 1863
• Weekly Southern Opinion (Atlanta), 1868
• Weekly Sun (Columbus), 1866-1867
• Weekly Sun (Columbus), 1868-1873
• West Point Observer, 1867
  

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In my opinion, the state of Georgia has done an outstanding job - not only consolidating the previous disparate sites, but also adding new titles - not an easy task.

For all of the Georgia Historic Newspapers website titles as well as links to other free Georgia historical newspaper websites, please visit Georgia Online Historical Newspapers Summary

The "Search Multiple Historic Newspaper Collections All At Once" website, elephind.com has just published an update that includes many more items and issues from 2 updated collections:

​(from the August, 2019 Elephind Newsletter):

Updated Newspaper Collections

• Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections: This collection contains 129 digitized newspaper titles primarily from primarily Illinois and the Midwest dating from 1831 to 2011.

 

• Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection: A collection of over 1.5 million newspaper pages published in Colorado from 1859 to 2017, with crowd sourcing tools and 'browse by county' features.

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​For the complete newsletter article, click HERE

If you have never used  (or heard of) elephind, here are a couple of articles that I have written about this wonderful site that may be interesting:

• Elephind - One to Watch 
• When is Fuzzy Search Too Fuzzy? Elephind Tells Us! 

If you have never tried elephind, check it out! The url is elephind.com.

Every early August, the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) announces their grant awards for the year.  This year they awarded $29.1 Million for 215 humanities projects nationwide.

This is great news for we users of Chronicling America, because very year about a dozen or more states receive grants to digitize additional newspapers that will be aided to Chronicling America.

And next year, new grant recipients Rhode island, Wyoming and the Virgin Islands will be offering digitized newspapers via Chronicling America!

This year, to "Support the creation of a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, from all states and U.S. territories", 11 grants, totaling $2.7 million were awarded.

Below is a state by state summary of their project that in conjunction with the National Digital Newspaper Program, that results in the additions of more pages to Chronicling America.

This is taken from NEH Office of Communications document regarding each award. The complete press release can be found HERE


Arkansas

Project Title: Arkansas Digital Newspaper Program
Project Description: The digitization of 100,000 pages of Arkansas newspapers published from 1819 through 1922, as part of the state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Connecticut

Project Title: Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of Connecticut newspapers, dating from 1690 to 1963, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Delaware

Project Title: Delaware Digital Newspaper Program
Project Description: The digitization of 100,000 pages from three historically significant Delaware newspaper titles, published from 1904 to 1963, as part of the state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). 

Florida, Puerto Rico, and Virgin islands

Project Title: U.S. Caribbean and Ethnic Florida Newspaper Project
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of newspapers published in Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands of the United States in participation with the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Georgia

Project Title: Georgia National Digital Newspaper Program Phase II
Project Description: The digitization of 110,000 pages of Georgia newsprint, published between 1690 and 1963, as part of the Digital Library of Georgia’s (DLG) participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Minnesota

Project Title: Digitization of Minnesota Newspapers, 1690–1963
Project Description: The digitization of 100,000 pages of historic Minnesota newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Rhode island
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Project Title: Rhode Island Historical Newspaper Digitization Project
Project Description: Digitization of 50,000 pages of Rhode Island newspapers published before 1923, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). 

Virginia

Project Title: Virginia Digital Newspaper Program
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of Virginia newspapers, dating from 1690 to 1963, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

West Virginia

Project Title: West Virginia Digital Newspaper Project Cycle 5
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of West Virginia Newspapers, dating from 1790 to 1923, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). 

Wisconsin

Project Title: Wisconsin National Digital Newspaper Program
Project Description: The digitization of approximately 100,000 pages of newspapers published in Wisconsin from 1836 to 1963, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Wyoming

Project Title: Wyoming Digital Newspaper Project
Project Description: Digitization of 100,000 pages of Wyoming newspapers, dating from 1863 to 1963, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).


This means an additional 1,060,000 pages will be added to Chronicling America as a result of these grants. Great news!

As genealogists, we deal with history, so naturally we use the words historic and historical.

Sometimes interchangeably, and therefore incorrectly.

I am a (hopefully) past transgressor of this crime. But through developing better word habits, I think I have overcome this error. If you read through some of my past articles on this website, you may find me to be a prevaricator relating to this offense, but only because I haven't taken the time to edit past articles using these two words.

Here's the deal - as genealogists, we are interested in all thing historical about our ancestors. In the course of our research, we will find that there are historic events that they either participated in or most certainly shaped their lives.

According to Writing Explained, 

• Historic refers to something that is very important or significant in history.
• Historical refers to something that took place in the past, regardless of importance

William Safire once said, “Any past event is historical, but only the most memorable ones are historic.”

Hopefully this helps.

In February, 2017, I started publishing a list of the catalog of online historical newspapers from over 400 different collections put together by the Advantage Archives Company, developed in conjunction with the libraries, historical societies and museums across the U.S. who preserve the historical newspapers for their communities. The list has grown a lot since then. Now there are over 630 collections - a 50% per cent growth in a little over two years.




To see the latest complete list, click on 60 Million Historic U.S. Newspaper Pages Now Available from Advantage Archives.


Here are the new County and Library collections that were added after the previous monthly Advantage Archives update, followed by the collections that have had newspapers added to their existing collections in the last month. 

​New County and Library Collections (listed by county; includes name and link to collection, and number of issues or pages):


Connecticut

• Hartford - Windsor Locks Historical Society (32,586 pages)

Illinois

• DeKalb - Hinckley Historical Society (31,447 pages)
• DuPage - Addison Public Library (99,350 pages)
• Kane - St. Charles Public Library (74,535​ pages)

Iowa

• Humboldt - Gilmore City (16,293 pages)
• Shelby - Harlan Public Library (42,886 pages)
• Webster - Lehigh (11,188 pages)

      
Maine

• Lincoln - Skidompha Public Library (84,375 pages)

Massachusetts

• Essex - Newburyport Public Library (57,921 pages)
• Middlesex - Acton Memorial Library (82,844 pages)
• Middlesex - Flint Memorial Library (20,662 pages)
• Worcester - Beals Memorial Library (1,363 pages)

Nebraska

• Burt - Decatur Herald Newspaper (14,250 pages)
• Saline - Doane University (11,336 pages)

Ohio

• Richland - Mansfield and Richland County Public Library (40,523 pages)

Updated Collections

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

Arizona

• Pinal - Casa Grande Public Library

Connecticut

• Middlesex - East Hampton Public Library
• New Haven - Wallingford City Directories

Georgia

• Colquitt - Moultrie Colquitt County Library System

Idaho

• Bannock - Marshall Public Library

Illinois

• Henry - Kewanee Public Library District

Indiana

• Knox - Knox County Public Library

Iowa

• Black Hawk - La Porte City
• Bremer - Waverly Public Library
• Cherokee - Marcus Public Library
• Clayton - McGregor Historical Museum
• Delaware - Manchester Iowa Archive
• Fayette - Elgin Public Library
• Howard - Howard Winnishiek-Cresco
• Marion - Pella Public Library
• Mitchell - Nissen Public Library
• Palo Alto - Palo Alto County
• Scott - Catholic Messenger
• Tama - Tama County

Kansas

• Cowley - Arkansas City Public Library
• Nemaha - Mary Cotton Public Library

Louisiana

• Jefferson Davis - Jennings Carnegie
• Vermillion - Vermilion Parish Library
• Vernon - Vernon Parish Library

Maine

• Aroostook - Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library
• York - Springvale Public Library and Goodall Memorial Library

Manitoba

• Westman Region - Brandon Sun

Massachusetts

• Essex - Newburyport Public Library
• Middlesex - J V Fletcher Library
• Middlesex - Stoneham Public Library
• Middlesex - Tewksbury Public Library
• Norfolk - Morrill Memorial Library
• Worcester - Leominster Public Library

Montana

• Yellowstone - Billings Public Library

Nebraska

• Knox - Creighton Public Library

Nevada

• Douglas - Douglas County Public Library

New Hampshire

• Hillsborough - Peterborough Town Library
• Rockingham - Derry Public Library

New York

• Cayuga - The Seymour Public Library
• Chenango - Guernsey Memorial Library
• Madison - Oneida Public Library
• Wayne - Sodus Community Library
• Westchester - North Castle Public Library

North Dakota

• North Dakota - North Dakota Archives
• Traill - Hillsboro

Ohio

• Hancock - Findlay-Hancock County Public Library
• Wayne - Wayne County Public Library

Rhode Island

• Providence - Pawtucket Public Library
• Washington - Island Free Library

Texas

• Chambers - Chambers County Library System
• Karnes - Kenedy Public Library

Vermont

• Lamoille -  Stowe Free Library
  

Virginia

• Frederick - Handley Regional Library

West Virginia

• Mineral - Potomac State College Mary Shipper Library
• Ohio - Ohio County Public Library

Wisconsin

• Forest - Crandon Public Library

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