Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

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.

Resource	Description
Georgia Historical Newspapers at the Digital Library of Georgia	The Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG), a part of Georgia’s Virtual Library GALILEO and is based at the University of Georgia Libraries.
Florida Digital Newspaper Library at the University of Florida	The Florida Digital Newspaper Library (FDNL) exists to provide access to the news and history of Florida Newspapers are a state treasure, the historian's and genealogist's best friend, and the community's collective memory.
Historic Newspapers of South Carolina at the University of South Carolina Libraries.	The Historical Newspapers of South Carolina repository provides online access to fulltext searchable historic newspapers originating in South Carolina since it became a state in 1788.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)	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.
Chronicling America	Chronicling America is a program of the Library of Congress making it possible to search and access a growing collection of historic newspapers.
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.
Elephind	Elephind makes it possible to “search the world’s historical newspaper archives” and it is free.
Google News Archive	Google News Archive collects historic newspapers from around the world.