Newspaper Resources

Newspapers are an important research resource giving us a look at the world our ancestors lived in. Fortunately, a number of archives are digitizing their newspaper collections and making them available online. Even better, most of them are freely accessible. This collection provides links to libraries, archives and other online resources to help you find news about your ancestors.

Chronicling America is a program of the Library of Congress making it possible to search and access a growing collection of historic newspapers.
Newspapers! at The Ancestor Hunt provides lessons to help you research historic newspapers successfully. But that’s not all. Kenneth R. Marks also maintains a growing directory of links to free and other newspaper publications. These include the United States and Canada along with special collections such as African American newspapers, Jewish, Catholic and Protestant newspapers and much more.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) offers public access to digitized holdings from a broad range of institutions. Collections include photographs, military records and Family Bibles.
Elephind makes it possible to “search the world’s historical newspaper archives” and it is free.
Google News Archive collects historic newspapers from around the world.
Georgia Historical Newspapers at the Digital Library of Georgia
Florida Digital Newspaper Library at the University of Florida.
Alabama Civil War and Reconstruction Newspapers at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Historic Newspapers of South Carolina at the University of South Carolina Libraries.