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Illinois Newspaper Collection — Access Genealogy

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Wichita Genealogist

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has digitized over 200,000 pages of 131 pre-1922 (out of copyright) historically significant newspapers. Newspapers digitized as part of this program are also included in the Library of Congress Chronicling America collection. Their … Continue reading →

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Newspapers and their images — The Legal Genealogist

Posted on September 17, 2020 by Wichita Genealogist

Another new tool, for finding news images If there’s a genealogist alive who doesn’t love newspapers, The Legal Genealogist hasn’t encountered such. And if there’s a newspaper-loving genealogist alive in the United States who doesn’t love Chronicling America, well, there’s … Continue reading →

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Connecticut State Library Continues to Digitize Newspapers – September 2020

Posted on September 7, 2020 by Wichita Genealogist

I saw this on the CT Digital Newspaper Project today: https://ctdigitalnewspaperproject.org/. I have some distant kin in Connecticut. The digitized records will be put on Chronicling America (link below)  by Fall 2021. You can check out https://ctdigitalarchive.org/ for the Connecticut … Continue reading →

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MDAH Digitized Newspapers Available Online – posted July 26, 2019

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Wichita Genealogist

I missed this the other day, but I was checking the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) website today as part of Mississippi Mondays and noticed – Digitized Newspapers Available Online – posted July 26, 2019: http://www.mdah.ms.gov/new/news/digitized-mississippi-newspapers-available-online/. Researchers from … Continue reading →

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Several Free Newspaper Websites February 3, 2014

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Wichita Genealogist

A friend posted this link on Facebook. http://www.theancestorhunt.com/1/post/2013/08/the-5-best-free-sites-for-online-newspaper-research-for-genealogy.html Trove – Australia newspapers with more than 100 million articles. I had not heard of this site, but I don’t have many family traces in Australia. Includes new titles coming soon. Elephind – over … Continue reading →

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