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Online Historical Newspapers Website

The purpose of the site is to have links to all online newspapers in one place, listed by county and city. It is meant to be used as an aid to genealogists, historians, and other researchers.

OnlineNewspapers.com - Online Newspaper Directory for the World

Paper of Record

Fee-based service of online archived newspaper images for US, Canada, Australia, UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Mexico. Various dates (1700s-2000). OCR search.

Periodicals

ProQuest Archiver $

ProQuest Archiver hosts the archives for 130+ newspapers, including historic article images for several titles back to the 1800s or earlier. Searching is free, with a small fee to view the full article. Titles include: Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

These newspapers might be accessible through ProQuest at your local public library or online via your library's web site.

ProQuest Information and Learning

Major publisher of newspapers on microform.

Rainy Day Research: Genealogical and Family History Services, Newspaper Indexing and Newspaper Transcriptions

Newspaper indices and transcriptions for Oakland, California; Lafayette, Louisiana; and other localities.

refdesk.com - Newspapers US and Worldwide

List of great newspaper links by country & by state.

Rowell's American Newspaper Directory, 1889 Volume Pt. 2

Rowell's American Newspaper Directory, 1889 Volume Pt. 3

Rowell's American Newspaper Directory, 1893

Rowell's American Newspaper Directory, 1898

SmallTownPapers

Searchable access to digitized newspapers (current and historial archives) from small towns in the US.

Stories About Our Ancestors

Newspaper articles and obituaries dating from 1767 to 1923 containing thousands of names, all completely searchable. Compiled and commented by Jim Lyons, author of

The Ancestor Hunt - Newspapers!

Free links, some tips, about 50 tutorials, and lots of other information and resources.

The Legal Genealogist - Copyright & the newspaper article

The United States Newspaper Program

Cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present.

ThoughtCo - U.S. Historical Newspapers Online by State

Time-Sliced News Search (ResearchBuzzSearch Gizmos)

Takes a year and query you input and generates date-restricted searches for several news search engines, including Google News, Google Books (Books, Newspapers, and Magazines are searched separately), Newspapers.com, and Chronicling America. Free.