Newspaper Finder

“Newspapers.com, GenealogyBank, NewspaperArchive, OldNews, Chronicling America … the list of historical newspaper websites goes on and on and on. Thanks to them, genealogists have access to a once-unimaginable number of digitized newspapers—in fact, so many publications in so many places that it can be hard to know where to look. Newspaper Finder, “A Database for Digitized Newspapers,” attempts to simplify your search for digitized titles. Through its one, singular catalog of online historical newspapers, you can see what publications are available from multiple websites at once. Note: Newspaper Finder doesn’t host any newspapers itself. Rather, it serves as a convenient, easy-to-use, place-based index to newspapers held by other databases. These include some of the largest and most-useful for genealogists. As of this writing, Newspaper Finder crawls the collections of more than 30 websites, including:

• Advantage Archives, which provides hosting services for many state- and local-level institutions
• The British Newspaper Archive from Findmypast and the British Library
• Chronicling America from the Library of Congress
• Fulton History, a one-man operation that’s part of “Old Fulton New York Post Cards”
• GenealogyBank, a subsidiary of NewsBank
• Google News Archive, which is now read-only
• Newspapers.com, a subsidiary of Ancestry.com
• NewspaperArchive, a subsidiary of Storied
• OldNews, a subsidiary of MyHeritage

Think of Newspaper Finder as a newspaper version of WorldCat, which is a directory of library, museum and archive catalogs from around the world. Here’s how to use the free, powerful Newspaper Finder…”