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. But some are so new that they have not been included as yet. And I have just been made aware of about 150 new collections!
The most recent update of the Advantage Preservation collections now totals 434 from 37 states and is still growing. The total pages now exceed 40 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 title counts in parentheses):
Alaska
Happy Hunting!
The great majority of these links have been Incorporated in the state collection summaries found in the Newspaper Research Links page on this site. But some are so new that they have not been included as yet. And I have just been made aware of about 150 new collections!
The most recent update of the Advantage Preservation collections now totals 434 from 37 states and is still growing. The total pages now exceed 40 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 title counts in parentheses):
Alaska
- Wrangell-Petersburg - Petersburg Public Library (7)
- Pinal - Casa Grande Public Library (6)
- Pinal - Eloy Santa Cruz Library (20)
- Yuma - Yuma Public Library (1)
- Hartford - Farmington Libraries (15)
- Hartford - New Britain Public Library (26)
- Litchfield - Beardsley & Memorial Library (11)
- Litchfield - Thomaston Public Library (4)
- Middlesex - East Hampton Public Library (2)
- New Haven - James Blackstone Memorial Library (14)
- New Haven - North Haven Public Library (4)
- New Haven - Wallingford City Directories (1)
- New Castle - New Castle Public Library (5)
- Dawson - Dawson County Library (7)
- Glynn - Marshes of Glynn Library (1)
- Laurens - Oconee Regional Library System (10)
- Lee - Lee County Library (7)
- Morgan - Uncle Remus Regional Library System (58)
- Worth - Worth County Library (5)
- Bear Lake - Bear Lake County Library (13)
- Cassia - Burley Public Library (6)
- Clearwater - Elk River Free Library (1)
- East Bonner - East Bonner County Library District (20)
- Franklin - Franklin County Library District (26)
- Kootenai - Hayden Community Library Network (2)
- Lemhi - Salmon Public Library (19)
- Payette - Armoral Tuttle Public Library (3)
- Teton - Valley of the Tetons District Library (2)
- Brown - Brown County Public Library (6)
- Cassio - Beardstown Houston Memorial Library (58)
- Clark - Marshall Public Library (84)
- Cook - Bellwood Public Library (4)
- Cook - Forest Park Public Library (8)
- Cook - Midlothian Public Library (6)
- Cook - River Forest Public Library (3)
- DeKalb - Shabbona Lee Rolo Historical Museum (6)
- Hancock - Warsaw Public Library (19)
- Henry - Clover Public Library District (14)
- Henry - Galva Public Library (5)
- Henry - Geneseo Public Library District (122)
- Henry - Kewanee Public Library District (9)
- Henry - Western District Library (7)
- Kane - Town and Country Public Library District (3)
- LaSalle - Earlville Library District (8)
- Logan - Atlanta Public Library and Museum (7)
- Marshall - Henry Public Library (9)
- McHenry - Harvard Diggins Library (7)
- Ogle - Polo Public Library (2)
- Peoria - Brimfield Public Library (4)
- Peoria - Peoria Heights Public Library (2)
- Rock Island - Moline Public Library (17)
- St. Clair - Freeburg Area Library District (1)
- St. Clair - New Athens District Library (5)
- Stark - Bradford Public Library District (7)
- Stark - Toulon Public Library (3)
- Tazewell - Morton Public Library (9)
- Whiteside - Erie Illinois Public Library (2)
- Whiteside - Sterling Public Library (13)
- Winnebago - Talcott Free Library District (6)
- Knox - Knox County Public Library (17)
- Allamakee - Postville Public Library (11)
- Appanoose - Centerville Iowegian (31)
- Benton - Baseball Museum of Norway (3)
- Benton - Belle Plaine Community Library (10)
- Benton - Blairstown Public Library (3)
- Benton - Schroeder Public Library (2)
- Benton - Vinton Public Library & the Benton County Historical Society (10)
- Bremer - Sumner Public Library (3)
- Bremer - Waverly Public Library (8)
- Buchanan - Jesup Public Library (2)
- Buena Vista - Albert City Historical Society (5)
- Buena Vista - Marathon Public Library (1)
- Buena Vista - Newell Public Library (9)
- Buena Vista - Sioux Rapids Public Library (10)
- Buena Vista - Storm Lake Public Library (22)
- Butler - Aplington Legion Memorial Library (1)
- Butler - Greene Public Library (7)
- Carroll - Carroll Public Library (14)
- Carroll - Coon Rapids Public Library (1)
- Cedar - West Branch Public Library (3)
- Cherokee - Cherokee Public Library (34)
- Cherokee - Marcus Public Library (2)
- Chickasaw - New Hampton Public Library (11)
- Clarke - Oseola Public Library (19)
- Clay - Kirchner French Public Library (3)
- Clayton - Elkader Public Library (11)
- Clayton - Garnavillo Historical Society (7)
- Clayton - Guttenberg Public Library (6)
- Clinton - Clinton Public Library (24)
- Crawford - Norelius Community Library (6)
- Crawford - Schleswig Public Library (2)
- Dickinson - Dickinson County (10)
- Dubuque - City of Dubuque (1)
- Dubuque - The Witness (2)
- Elgin - Fayette Public Library (7)
- Emmet - Estherville Public Library (19)
- Fayette - Elgin Public Library (1)
- Fayette - Oelwein (4)
- Fayette - The Collegian (2)
- Fayette - West Union Community Library (18)
- Floyd - Rockford Public Library (12)
- Grandy - Kling Memorial Library (12)
- Greene - Jefferson Public Library (7)
- Grundy - Beaman Community Memorial Library (12)
- Grundy - Ostfriesen Heritage Society (4)
- Guthrie - Bayard Public Library (9)
- Guthrie - Mary Burnett Memorial Library (6)
- Guthrie - Stuart Public Library (4)
- Hamilton - Ellsworth Public Library (7)
- Hamilton - Hamilton County (23)
- Hardin - Ackley Public Library (7)
- Hardin - Hardin County Iowa (41)
- Humblodt - Humboldt County Genealogical Society (10)
- Ida - Battle Creek (2)
- Iowa - Iowa County Genealogical (429)
- Iowa - Iowa County Iowa (24)
- Iowa - Williamsburg Iowa (24)
- Jasper - Monroe Public Library (4)
- Johnson - Oxford Public Library (6)
- Jones - Jones County Genealogical Society (20)
- Jones - Ross & Elizabeth Baty Public Library, Monticello (3)
- Keokuk - Hedrick Public Library (2)
- Keokuk - Warren County Historical Society (24)
- Kossuth - Algona Public Library (9)
- Kossuth - Kossuth County Newspapers (18)
- Linn - Cedar Rapids Public Library (25)
- Linn - Cornell College (5)
- Linn - Linn County Atlas (3)
- Linn - Marion Public Library (41)
- Linn - Mount Vernon Public Library (17)
- Louisa - Mellinger Public Library (24)
- Lucas - Chariton Public Library (8)
- Lyon - Rock Rapids Public Library (6)
- Madison - Winterset Public Library (12)
- Marion - Central College Newspapers (11)
- Marion - Pella Public Library (40)
- Marshall - Gutekunst Public Library (24)
- Marshall - Marshalltown Public Library (2)
- Mills - Malvern Public Library (3)
- Mills - The Silver City Historical Society (3)
- Mitchell - Nissen Public Library (3)
- Mitchell - Osage Public Library (3)
- Monona - Mapleton Public Library (15)
- Monona - Onawa Public Library (10)
- Monroe - Monroe County Historical Society (22)
- Montgomery - Stanton Historical Society (3)
- Montgomery - Villisca Public Library (4)
- O'Brien - General N.B. Baker Library (5)
- O'Brien - Hartley Public Library (8)
- O'Brien - Paullina Public Library (4)
- O'Brien - Sanborn Public Library (6)
- Osceola - Sibley Public Library (12)
- Page - Essex Lied Public Library (4)
- Page - Lied Library (13)
- Page - Shenandoah Public Library (38)
- Palo Alto - Graettinger Public Library (1)
- Palo Alto - Palo Alto County (14)
- Plymouth - Akron Public Library (3)
- Plymouth - Kingsley Public Library (7)
- Plymouth - LeMars Public Library (18)
- Plymouth - Remsen Public Library (10)
- Pocahontas - Laurens Public Library (6)
- Pocahontas - Pocahontas Public Library (5)
- Pocahontas - Rolfe Public Library (15)
- Polk - Children and Families of Iowa (6)
- Polk - Johnston Public Library (8)
- Pottawattamie - Walnut Public Library (3)
- Sac - Odebolt Public Library and Museum (15)
- Scott - Catholic Messenger (3)
- Scott - Scott County Library (1)
- Sioux - Libraries of Sioux County (37)
- Story - Bertha Bartlett Public Library (4)
- Taylor - Lenox Public Library (3)
- Wapello - Eddyville Public Library (9)
- Washington - Kalona Public Library (2)
- Wayne - Brown Memorial Library (3)
- Wayne - Seymour Community Library (6)
- Webster - Fort Dodge Public Library (56)
- Woodbury - Morningside College (5)
- Worth - Worth County Historical Society (1)
- Wright - Clarion Public Library (5)
- Wright - Eagle Grove Memorial Library (13)
- Wright - Talbot Belmond Public Library (6)
- Allen - Humboldt Public Library (3)
- Anderson - Garnett Public Library (7)
- Brown - Morrill Public Library (4)
- Chase - Chase County Historical Society (1)
- Coffey - Lebo Branch-Coffey County Library (9)
- Cowley - Arkansas City Public Library (5)
- Franklin - Ottawa University (9)
- Geary - Dorothy Bramlage Public Library (14)
- Gove - Grinnell-Angelus Heritage Center (13)
- Harvey - Bethel College (10)
- Harvey - Newton Public Library (2)
- Logan - Oakley Public Library (5)
- Lyon - Lyon County Library (17)
- Marion - Peabody Township Library (8)
- Marshall - Waterville Public Library (8)
- Montgomery - Independence Public Library (1)
- Nemaha - Mary Cotton Public Library (12)
- Nemaha - Seneca Free Library (11)
- Osborne - Osborne Public Library (41)
- Pawnee - Jordaan Memorial Library (1)
- Pottawatomie - Wamego Public Library (20)
- Rooks - Plainville Memorial Library (10)
- Russell - Russell Public Library (1)
- Sedgewick - Derby Public Library (6)
- Seward - Seward Memorial Library (4)
- Stevens - Stevens County Library (22)
- Adair - Adair County Library (1)
- Clark - Clark County Public Library (1)
- Clinton - Clinton County Public Library District (2)
- Meade - Meade County Public Library (6)
- Russell - Russell County Public Library (2)
- Wayne - Wayne County Public Library (1)
- Acadia - Acadia Parish Library (16)
- Bienville - Bienville Parish Public Library (6)
- Concordia - Concordia Parish Public Library (1)
- East Baton Rouge - East Baton Rouge Parish Library (5)
- Jefferson Davis - Jennings Carnegie (10)
- Lafayette - Lafayette Public Library (3)
- LaSalle - LaSalle Parish Library (15)
- Rapides - Rapides Parish Library (4)
- Union - Union Parish Library (1)
- Vermillion - Vermilion Parish Library (8)
- Vernon - Vernon Parish Library (11)
- Webster - Webster Parish Library (33)
- Aroostook - Fort Fairfield Public Library (10)
- Aroostook - Houlton High School Yearbooks (3)
- Aroostook - Mark and Emily Turner Memorial Library (16)
- Aroostook - Walter TA Hansen Memorial Library (3)
- Cumberland - Bridgton Public Library (3)
- Cumberland - Scarborough Public Library (8)
- Kennebec - Gardiner Public Library (2)
- Lincoln - Skidompha Library (68)
- Penbbscot - Old Town Public Library (6)
- Piscataquis - Thompson Free Library (1)
- Waldo - Belfast Free Library (1)
- York - Springvale Public Library and Goodall Memorial Library (4)
- Queen Anne's - Queen Anne's County Library (5)
- Worcester - Worcester County Library (45)
- Essex - Newburyport Public Library (10)
- Franklin - Montague Public Libraries (3)
- Middlessex - Tewksbury Public Library (3)
- Norfolk - Holbrook Public Library (1)
- Norfolk - Turner Free Library (2)
- Worcester - Oxford Public Library (12)
- Bay - Delta College Collegiate (1)
- Berrien - Bridgman Public Library (2)
- Genesee - Kettering University Library (1)
- Gratiot - Alma College (2)
- Newaygo - White Cloud Community Library (2)
- Coahoma - Carnegie Public Library (41)
- Wayne - Waynesboro Wayne County Library System (12)
- Grundy - Grundy County Jewett Norris Library (25)
- Livingston - Livingston (1)
- Putnam - Putnam County Public Library (15)
- Gallatin - Bozeman High School (2)
- Hill - Havre Hill County Library (3)
- Hill - Havre Hill Obituaries (1)
- Yellowstone - Billings Public Library (3)
- Antelope - Neligh Public Library (8)
- Boone - Albion Public Library (5)
- Burt - Lyons Public Library (7)
- Burt - Oakland Public Library (6)
- Cheyenne - Dalton Delegate (1)
- Dixon - Dixon County Nebraska (12)
- Dixon - Ponca Carnegie Library (6)
- Dodge - North Bend Public Library (5)
- Dodge - Scribner Public Library (6)
- Furnas - Arapahoe (12)
- Furnas - Arapahoe Public Library (12)
- Furnas - Butler Memorial Library (4)
- Greeley - Scotia Public Library and Heritage Center (4)
- Holt - Atkinson Library (5)
- Howard - Saint Paul Library (12)
- Knox - Creighton Public Library (7)
- Pawnee - Pawnee City Library (14)
- Perkins - Hastings Memorial Library (16)
- Pierce - Plainview News (5)
- Seward - Seward Memorial Library (45)
- Stanton - Stanton Public Library (4)
- Valley - North Loup Public Library (3)
- Douglas - Douglas County Public Library (8)
- Grafton - Bethlehem Public Library (1)
- Hillsborough - Fuller Public Library (6)
- Hillsborough - Wadleigh Memorial Library (6)
- Hillsborough - Nashua Public Library (2)
- Rockingham - Derry Public Library (5)
- Rockingham - Kelley Library (1)
- Rockingham - Plaistow Public Library (1)
- Rockingham - The Nesmith Library (4)
- Strafford - Dover NH Public Library (11)
- Strafford - Farmington News of Farmington New Hampshire (1)
- Strafford - Lee Public Library (1)
- Sullivan - Fiske Free Library (5)
- Sullivan - Richards Free Library (11)
- Camden - Cherry Hills Public Library (5)
- Broome - George Johnson Memorial Library (32)
- Broome - Lisle Free Library (8)
- Broome - Mary L. Wilcox Memorial Library (10)
- Cattaraugus - Allegany Public Library (4)
- Cattaraugus - Saint Bonaventure University - Friedsam Memorial Library (22)
- Cayuga - The Seymour Public Library (2)
- Chenango - Afton Free Library (7)
- Chenango - Guernsey Memorial Library (11)
- Columbia - Roeliff Jansen Community Library (5)
- Delaware - Sidney Memorial Library (10)
- Greene - Catskill (3)
- Jefferson - Roswell P Flower Memorial Library (1)
- Madison - Cazenovia Public Library (28)
- Madison - Oneida Public Library (2)
- Nassau - Glen Cove Public Library (1)
- Nassau - Hewlett Woodmere Public Library (2)
- Nassau - Massepequa Public Library (1)
- Onondoga - Fayetteville Free Library (13)
- Onondoga - Marcellus Free Library (2)
- Ontario - Pioneer Library System (43)
- Orange - Albert Wisner Public Library (4)
- Orange - Josephine - Louise Public Library (1)
- Otsego - The Village Library of Morris (3)
- Rensselaer - Troy Public Library (1)
- Rockland - Nyack Library (1)
- Steuben - Addison Public Library (1)
- Steuben - Hornell Public Library (7)
- Sullivan - The Liberty Public Library (1)
- Tompkins - Southworth Library (11)
- Tompkins - Ulysses Philomathic Library (25)
- Ulster - Saugerties Public Library (11)
- Ulster - Woodstock Public Library (1)
- Wayne - Clyde-Savannah Public Library (17)
- Wayne - Sodus Community Library (2)
- Wayne - Williamson Public Library (7)
- Westchester - Chappaqua Public Library (9)
- Westchester - Katonah Village Library (4)
- Westchester - North Castle Public Library (5)
- Westchester - Port Chester - Rye Brook Public Library (2)
- Wyoming - Perry Public Library (25)
- Wyoming - Stevens Memorial Library & The Attica Historical Society (6)
- Dare - Dare County Library (5)
- Dare - Dare County Library (4)
- Dare - Dare County Library (1)
- Nash - Braswell Memorial Library (1)
- Robeson - Mary Livermore Libary (1)
- Brown - Union Township Public Library (13)
- Champaign - Champaign County Library (34)
- Columbiana - Carnegie Public Library (1)
- Columbiana - Lepper Public Library (16)
- Erie - Huron Public Library (5)
- Franklin - Southwest Public Libraries (1)
- Franklin - Westland Area Library (3)
- Fulton - Archbold Community Library (1)
- Fulton - Swanton Public Library (1)
- Hardin - Ada Public Library (14)
- Hardin - Forest Jackson Public Library (1)
- Holmes - Holmes County District Public Library (3)
- Huron - Bellevue Public Library (6)
- Huron - Huron County Community Library (25)
- Lawrence - Briggs Lawrence County Public Library (1)
- Livcking - Mary Babcock Library (3)
- Lorain - Avon Lake Public Library (1)
- Mercer - Fort Recovery Public Library (10)
- Ottawa - Oak Harbor Public Library (2)
- Preble - Brown Memorial Library (1)
- Richland - Marvin Memorial Library (8)
- Seneca - Seneca East Public Library (6)
- Stark - Stark County District Library (11)
- Trumbull - McKinley Memorial Library (10)
- Wayne - Wayne County Public Library (1)
- Wayne - Wayne County Public Library (17)
- Wood - Rossford Public Library (4)
- Wood - Way Public Library (23)
- Wood - Wayne Public Library (10)
- Wood - Weston Public Library (7)
- Bryan - Donald W Reynolds Community Center & Library (15)
- Kingfisher - Hennessey Public Library (18)
- Texas - Guymon Public Library (44)
- Coos - Flora M Laird Memorial Library (32)
- Umatilla - The Weston Public Library (2)
- Wallowa - Wallowa History Center (6)
- Chester - Spoke Newspaper (4)
- Franklin - Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library (6)
- Bristol - Bristol Phoenix (5)
- Kent - East Greenwich Free Library (5)
- Kent - East Greenwich Post 2000 Newspapers (1)
- Kent - Warwick Public Library (2)
- Newport - Jamestown Philomenian Library (1)
- Washington - Island Free Library (8)
- Washington - Maury Loontjens Memorial Library (1)
- Washington - North Kingstown Library (5)
- Union - Beresford Public Library (6)
- Union - Berseford Public Library (6)
- Andrews - Andrews County Library (21)
- Austin - Bellville Public Library (9)
- Beeville - Joe Barnhart Bee County Library (5)
- Bell - Killeen (9)
- Blanco - Blanco County North and South Library Districts (10)
- Cameron - Harlingen Public Library (7)
- Camp - Pittsburg-Camp County Public Library (1)
- Chambers - Chambers County Library System (4)
- Colorado - Nesbitt Memorial Library (5)
- Crane - Crane County Public Library (1)
- Dallam - XIT Museum (28)
- Frio - Dilley Public Library (5)
- Galveston - Friendswood Public Library (8)
- Grayson - Denison Public Library (4)
- Hays - San Marcos Public Library (2)
- Hidalgo - Speer Memorial Library (6)
- Hood - Hood County Public Library (8)
- Oldham - Oldham County Public Library (1)
- Pecos - Fort Stockton Public Library (1)
- Pecos - Iraan Public Library (2)
- Scurry - Scurry County Library (1)
- Swisher - Swisher County Public Library (3)
- Tarrant - John Ed Keeter Public Library (4)
- Tom Green - Tom Green County Library (1)
- Wichita - Electra Public Library (10)
- Wichita - Wichita Falls Public Library (5)
- Wood - Gilbreath Memorial Library (1)
- Chittenden - Charlotte News (1)
- Franklin - Arvin A Brown Public Library (2)
- Lamoille - Stowe Free Library (3)
- Rutland - Sherburne Memorial Library (8)
- Frederick - Wayside Theater (2)
- Mercer - Princeton Public Library (1)
- Ohio - Ohio County Public Library (7)
- Barron - Rice Lake Public Library (5)
- Chippewa - Chippewa Falls Public Library (5)
- Columbia - Kilbourn Public Library (11)
- Dunn - Menomonie Public Library (2)
- Jefferson - Irvin L Young Memorial Library (10)
- Juneau - Elroy Public Library (23)
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