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Today's post is about the sleuthing librarians and archivists who are finding, sharing, and saving historic newspapers. It can be frustrating to look for a newspaper needed for research and not find a digital [...]
Interested in mapping newspapers in Chronicling America collection? An interactive data visualization project at Stanford maps locations of historic newspapers in the Chronicling America collection. How cool is that? The International German Genealogy Conference [...]
Today's post is about finding newspapers worldwide for genealogy research. Elephind.com's goal is to make it possible to search the world’s online historic newspapers from one place. Veridian Software, a technology company that digitizes newspapers for [...]
It's the third Tuesday of the month, so it's time to join the #ChronAmParty on Twitter. Libraries participating in the National Digital Newspaper Program select and tweet vintage newspaper stories from Chronicling America using the [...]
Interested in finding old U.S. newspapers by state and for free? From 1982 to 2011, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded the United States Newspaper Program (USNP) to locate, catalog, and preserve [...]
Today's post features links for Illinois Online Historic Newspapers to help your genealogy research. I've included both free and pay resources. Non-English and minority-focussed papers (like the Chicago Defender) are included. If you have additions [...]
Today's post is about finding historic newspapers online through the Rural West Initiative, a project of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. This project combines visuals and data to create an interactive map of the [...]
Today's guest post is about using the Google News Archive for German newspapers. German-language newspapers published in the U.S. can be important sources for obituaries and other information on German immigrant ancestors. My Germanic Genealogy teacher, Carolyn [...]
Free online German-language newspapers published in the United States are invaluable resources for genealogists. If you're searching for ancestors from Germany, Austria, and Prussia who emigrated to America, 19th- and 20th-century German-language newspapers can hold [...]
Updates to Chronicling America Historic Newspapers August 2013 is today's Follow Friday. The Library of Congress announced the additions yesterday of 600,000 historic newspaper pages. First-time contributions are from Iowa, Michigan, and West Virginia. Other new [...]
Searching Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers highlights a portal with video guides on using and searching Chronicling America, the Historic American Newspapers database from the Library of Congress and NEH. Chronicling America, begun in [...]
Chicago Genealogy: Chicago German-Language Newspapers are an invaluable source for German genealogical research in Chicago. Gottfried Hann's obituary I've been working on the list of research resources for finding German ancestors in [...]
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers is the subject of today’s Follow Friday post. The project is a partnership between the Library of Congress and NEH with two objectives: provide access to a Newspaper Directory covering U.S. [...]
Today I'm contemplating the combination of photo booths and family. Frieda and the Photo Booth I found this photo strip of my grandmother recently. My father's mother, Frieda Hann, was born late in December [...]
The Newspaper Navigator project at the Library of Congress finds and extracts visual content from 16 million pages found in Chronicling America. Although LC is closed to the public, work continues behind the scenes [...]
