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Advantage Archives - California ^FREE

Digitized archives--mostly newspapers--from library collections in the state.

Ancestry.com - Historical Newspapers Collection - California $

Ancestry.com - Search Newspapers & Publications

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com Card Catalog - Newspapers - US - California $

California Digital Newspaper Collection

The California Digital Newspaper Collection contains over 1,500,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-present, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. It also contains issues of several current California newspapers that are part of a project to preserve and provide access to contemporary papers.

California Eagle [microform] (Internet Archive)

The California Eagle, the West's oldest African-American newspaper, was published from 1879-1964.

Chronicling America - Digitized Newspapers - California

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Chronicling America - US Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present - California

Use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Fold3 - California Newspapers $

Catalina Islander, Chester Progressive, Cloverdale Reveille, Delhi Express, Exeter Sun, Geyserville Press, Gridley Herald, Independent Coast Observer, Indian Valley Record, Intermountain News, Julian News, Lindsay Gazette, Plumas National, Portola Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle, Westwood PinePress. Fold3 is an online repository for original historical documents, combined with the ability for users to make comments, annotations, and upload their own documents. The focus of Fold3 is to be a comprehensive collection of U.S. Military records. Some areas of Fold3 are free to use, while others can be freely searched and then viewed with a paid subscription.

Genealogical Roots in Newspapers

Newspaper index of births, death, and marriages from local newspapers. Currently from California, Connecticut, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and West Virginia.

GenealogyBank - List of Newspapers by State - California $

Browse the list of newspapers by state, then by city to determine if they have what you need for your research. From there you can search by city or by individual newspaper titles. Newspaper images are available with a fee-based subscription.

GenealogyBank.com - Historical Newspapers - California $

GenealogyBank's collection includes modern obituaries, historical newspapers, books, pamphlets, military records, and government documents. The 13,000+ historical newspapers include letters, speeches, opinion pieces, advertisements, hometown news, photographs, illustrations and more. Searchable database results shown, images available with a fee-based subscription.

Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press

The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.

List of newspapers in California (Wikipedia)

NewspaperARCHIVE.com - California $

The world's largest online newspaper archive. Featuring billions of articles from historical newspapers around the U.S. and the world. This unique archive spans more than 400 years of family history, small-town events, world news and more. Searchable database with the number of results shown, images available with a fee-based subscription.

Newspapers.com - Historical Newspapers in California $

Newspapers.com, a fee-based subscription site, is one of the largest online historical newspapers sites, adding millions of pages each month and making it easy and convenient to search or browse millions of newspapers to find news, notices of births, marriages and deaths, and much more. The site offers the ability to make "clippings." Clippings are an easy way to keep track of interesting things you find on Newspapers.com. You can clip an article, a page, a newspaper, a search, or another member's profile. Once it's clipped, you can easily find it again, share it with friends, and receive notifications when it's updated.

Oakland Sunshine (Oakland, Calif.), 1915, 1920, 1922

Weekly African-American newspaper published in Oakland, California. Digitized newspapers through the Portal to Texas History.

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.