New Site for Searching Lexington, KY Historical Newspapers

GenealogyBank has created a special site for searching

Lexington, Kentucky's historical newspapers.

Photo: Tobacco crop, Lexington, KY 1910. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Search Lexington, KY Historical Newspapers - Click Here

This site includes 7 newspapers from 1794 to 1922 including:

Kentucky Gazette
Lexington Herald
Lexington Herald-Leader
Morning Herald
Reporter
Stewart Kentucky Herald
Western Monitor

New Site for Searching old Georgia Newspapers 1752-1947

GenealogyBank has created a special site for searching Georgia's historical newspapers.

Search Georgia's Historical Newspapers - Click Here

This site includes 20 newspapers from 1752 to 1947 - from 6 cities:
Augusta
Augusta Chronicle and Georgia Advertiser
Augusta Herald
Southern Centinel

Columbus
Columbus Daily Enquirer
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Louisville
Louisville Gazette

Macon

Georgia Weekly Telegraph
Macon Telegraph
Macon Weekly Telegraph

Milledgeville

Georgia Argus
Georgia Journal
Milledgeville Republican
Reflector

Savannah

Columbian Museum
Gazette of the State of Georgia
Georgia Gazette
Royal Georgia Gazette
Savannah Republican
Savannah Tribune
Southern Banner

Searching California Newspapers

GenealogyBank has created a special site for searching California's historical newspapers.

Search California's Historical Newspapers - Click Here

This site includes 41 newspapers from 1719 to 1922 - from 11 cities.

The cities include: Berkley, Colton, Los Angeles, Monterey, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Monica, Stanford and Stockton.

For the entire list click here

Genealogists have been heavily searching these early newspapers:

Alta California (San Francisco) 1850-1861

San Joaquin Republican 1855-1860

San Jose Mercury News 1861-1922

Search all 41 early California newspapers - click here

Searching Philadelphia Newspapers

GenealogyBank has created a special site for searching Philadelphia's historical newspapers.

Search Philadelphia's Historical Newspapers - Click Here

This site includes 65 newspapers from 1719 to 1922.
For the entire list click here

Two of the most popular Philadelphia newspapers in this collection are:
The Philadelphia Inquirer (1834-1922) (Gaps: 1847-1851, 1853-1859)
The Public Ledger (1836-1873) (Gaps: 1841-1842; 1861, 1871)

GenealogyBank is continuing to locate, digitize and fill in any missing issues. Each month we add more issues. In the past week we added 1,283 more issues of the Public Ledger filling in the gaps in that title.

This Philadelphia collection includes early American newspapers in English and German.

GenealogyBank adds 64 newspapers from 27 States

GenealogyBank has added more newspapers - 64 titles from 27 States.

GenealogyBank has also created separate search pages for each newspaper.
If you want to search a newspaper on this list - click on the title and start searching.

AK. Juneau. Daily Record-Miner. 1910

AZ. Tucson. Amigos. 1975 to 1975
AZ. Tucson. Tucsonense. 1923

CA. Colton. Chicano. 1971 to 1973
CA. Los Angeles. Heraldo de Mexico. 1921 to 1927

CO. Colorado Springs. Gazette-Telegraph. 1915 to 1922

DC. Washington. Daily National Intelligencer. 1823 to 1842

IL. O'Fallon. O'Fallon Progress. 2008 to Current
IL. Quincy. Quincy Whig. 1876
IL. Springfield. State Journal Register. 1985 to Current

IN. Elkhart. Elkhart Truth. 2007 to Current

LA. New Orleans. Abeja. 1830
LA. New Orleans. Times Picayune. 1861 to 1900
LA. New Orleans. Times Picayune. 1902 to 1920

MA. Boston. Boston Journal. 1870
MA. Carver. Carver Reporter. 2008 to Current
MA. Duxbury. Duxbury Reporter. 2008 to Current
MA. Gloucester. Gloucester Telegraph* 1850
MA. Halifax. Halifax-Plympton Reporter. 2008 to Current
MA. Lakeville. Lakeville Call. 2008 to Current
MA. Marion. Sentinel. 2007 to Current
MA. Salem. Salem Observer* 1823 to 1836
MA. West Roxbury. West Roxbury Transcript. 2006 to Current

MD. Annapolis. Annapolis Gazette. 1857 to 1866
MD. Annapolis. Maryland Gazette* 1788
MD. Baltimore. American and Commercial Daily Advertiser* 1812 to 1819
MD. Baltimore. Baltimore American. 1905 to 1911
MD. Baltimore. Federal Gazette*1807 to 1808

MI. Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids Press. 1901 to 1920
MI. Jackson. Jackson Citizen Patriot. 1850 to 1858
MI. Temperance. Bedford Now. 2007 to Current

MO. Kansas City. Cosmopolita. 1915

NC. Asheboro. Randolph Guide. 2008 to Current

NJ. Trenton. Trenton Evening Times. 1883 to 1922
NJ. Trenton. Trenton Sunday Times-Advertiser. 1903 to 1917

NM. Las Cruces. Estrella. 1929
NM. Santa Fe. Nuevo Mexicano. 1894
NM. Santa Fe. Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican and Livestock Journal. 1888 to 1893
NM. Wagon Mound. Combate. 1903 to 1915

NV. Las Vegas. Anthem View. 2006 to Current

NY. Albany. Albany Evening Journal. 1850 to 1872
NY. New York. Grafico. 1927 to 1928
NY. New York. New York Herald. 1865

OH. Cincinnati. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. 1877 to 1885
OH. Cincinnati. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer. 1862 to 1876
OH. Cincinnati. Cincinnati Daily Gazette. 1880

OR. Portland. Oregonian. 1872 to 1907

PA. Glen Mills. Garnet Valley Press. 2007 to Current
PA. Philadelphia. Public Ledger. 1839 to 1868
PA. Pittsburgh. Tree of Liberty. 1801 to 1808

RI. Warren. Telescope. 1814 to 1817

TN. Oak Ridge. Oak Ridger. 1997 to Current

TX. Brownsville. Daily Metropolitan. 1893
TX. Brownsville. Heraldo de Brownsville. 1935 to 1936
TX. Corpus Christi. Verdad. 1955
TX. El Paso. Continental. 1836 to 1958
TX. Laredo. Cronica. 1910
TX. Paris. Paris News. 2000 to Current
TX. San Antonio. Epoca. 1918
TX. San Antonio. Prensa. 1929 to 1935
TX. San Antonio. Revista Mexicana. 1919

UT. Salt Lake City. Salt Lake Telegram. 1913 to 1922

VA. Richmond. Virginia Argus. 1805 to 1807

VT. St. Albins. American Repertory. 1828 to 1833

WI. Milwaukee. Guardia* 1971 to 1975

GenealogyBank adds 14 newspapers from 9 states

GenealogyBank has added the following newspapers.
Click here and start searching.

O'Fallon Progress (O'Fallon, IL)
Obituaries: 09/26/2008 - Current
Death Notices: 10/21/2008 - Current

Elkhart Truth, (Elkhart, IN)
Obituaries: 12/29/2007 - Current
Death Notices: 12/29/2007 - Current

Carver Reporter (Carver, MA)
Obituaries: 02/24/2009 - Current
Death Notices: 11/14/2008 - Current

Duxbury Reporter (Duxbury, MA)
Death Notices: 11/17/2008 - Current

Halifax-Plympton Reporter (Halifax, MA)
Death Notices: 12/10/2008 - Current

Lakeville Call (Lakeville, MA)
Obituaries: 01/23/2009 - Current
Death Notices: 11/19/2008 - Current

Sentinel, The (Marion, MA)
Obituaries: 07/26/2007 - Current
Death Notices: 07/26/2007 - Current

West Roxbury Transcript (West Roxbury, MA)
Obituaries: 07/13/2006 - Current
Death Notices: 11/14/2008 - Current

Bedford Now (Temperance, MI)
Obituaries: 08/03/2007 - Current
Death Notices: See Monroe Evening News

Randolph Guide (Asheboro, NC)
Obituaries: 12/18/2008 - Current
Death Notices: 04/06/2008 - Current

Anthem View (Las Vegas, NV)
Obituaries: 06/06/2006 - Current

Garnet Valley Press (Glen Mills, PA)
Obituaries: 05/16/2007 - Current
Death Notices: 03/21/2007 - Current

Oak Ridger, The (Oak Ridge, TN)
Obituaries: 03/07/1997 - Current
Death Notices: 02/17/1997 - Current

Paris News, The (Paris, TX)
Obituaries: 06/02/2001 - 02/24/2008: Scattered earlier data available
Death Notices: 12/03/2000 - 03/26/2008

On the road -

In the past few days I spoke to the Lakewood Ranch Genealogy Society and to the Manasota Genealogical Society - both in Florida.

Core Online Genealogy Resources - The Ones you will actually use and rely on!
Genealogists spend years researching their family history. This presentation introduces genealogists to the "new" core online resources that genealogists need to know about to be most effective in documenting and preserving their family tree information.

Follow the presentation here:
Core Online Genealogy Resources - The Ones you will actually use and rely on!

newspapers

The other presentation was:

I've been researching for years ... How do I Preserve and Pass Down my Research?

See that presentation here:

I've Been Researching for Years...

On the road - Family History Expo - St. George, UT

This year's Family History Expo in St. George, UT was a big success. This well attended conference is becoming the largest genealogy conference in the U.S.

This, the 5th Annual Family History Expo had over 1,300 people in attendance. Genealogists flew in for the conference from all parts of the country.

I was pleased to be asked to present at 2 sessions this year and to be the conference banquet speaker.

If you weren't able to be there in person - here are the PowerPoint presentations for you to review.

GenealogyBank.com - The Tour - Feb 2009

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