Posts about newspapers, newspaper indexes, digital newspapers, and newspaper directories, and finding historic newspapers for genealogy research.
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 [...]
"Prefers Jail to Husband" is an arresting headline that led me on another vintage newspaper detour recently. I justify going down these journalistic rabbit holes by saying that they're newspaper serendipity. That's my [...]
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 lets talk about searching the U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present. Chronicling America at the Library of Congress gets lots of good press from me and other genealogists. This resource provides access to digitized U.S. [...]
