Our Online Obituary Archives Keep Growing & Growing…

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Tom Kemp

It is so great to see GenealogyBank growing its obituary archive collections to offer one of the most comprehensive resources for obituary records online. Here is just a partial list of the obituaries that we will be adding to the obituary archives in the coming weeks. These recent obituary examples are from Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Look for these new titles to be added to our Recent Obituaries section in May.

North Platte Telegraph (North Platte, NE)

Death Notices: 12/12/2006 – Current

Penn Trafford Star (Monroeville, PA)

Death Notices: 04/21/2011 – Current

Sewickley Herald (Sewickley, PA)

Death Notices: 04/14/2011 – Current

Signal Item (Carnegie, PA)

Death Notices: 04/21/2011 – Current

Times-Sun (West Newton, PA)

Death Notices: 04/21/2011 – Current

Stafford County Sun (Stafford, VA)

Death Notices: 03/22/2013 – Current

Did you realize that in addition to recent obituaries, we add millions of historical newspaper articles to GenealogyBank’s archives every month?

GenealogyBank is your best site for America’s old newspapers!

6 More Newspapers Being Added to Recent Obituaries Collection

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Tom Kemp

Here’s a look ahead at six of the new newspapers we are adding to our “Recent Obituaries” online collection in April. This is just a snapshot of the millions of obituary records that we add every month to GenealogyBank to help you find your ancestors and trace your family tree.

GenealogyBank’s “Recent Newspaper Obituaries” search box

These recent obituaries are from five states and the District of Columbia: California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, Virginia, and Haymarket, D.C.

You can view our entire Recent Obituaries archives online: http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/obituaries/

Pasadena-San Gabriel Valley News Journal (Pasadena, CA)

Obituaries: 02/25/2009 – Current

Asian Fortune (Haymarket, DC)

Obituaries: 06/01/2000 – Current

Miami Herald, The: Blogs (Miami, FL)

Obituaries: 03/10/2008 – Current

Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

Obituaries: 08/04/1999 – Current

Horse News (Flemington, NJ)

Obituaries: 06/30/1994 – Current
Note: missing 2/2003-12/2003

Powhatan Today (Powhatan, VA)

Obituaries: 04/02/2008 – Current

23 Million Newspaper Records for all 50 U.S. States Just Added!

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Tom Kemp

Did you realize that every day GenealogyBank adds more records from over 3,000 newspapers from all 50 states? Our archivists and digital experts are gathering and digitizing more of America’s newspapers and putting them online continuously.

In the past month alone we added over 23 million newspaper records—that is more than 5 million records every week!

Here is a glimpse of just some of the new newspaper content that has recently been added to GenealogyBank. Since we can’t list all 3,000 newspapers here, we have selected a representative sample to give you a sense of GenealogyBank’s dynamic growth. Dig into our rapidly expanding newspaper archives and uncover your family history now!

Newspapers marked with an asterisk (*) are new to GenealogyBank.

State	City	Newspapers	Date Range	Collection
Alaska	Anchorage	Anchorage Daily News	1/2/1971–12/30/1972	Newspaper Archives
California	San Diego	Evening Tribune	9/2/1912–9/29/1936	Newspaper Archives
California	San Diego	San Diego Union	4/20/1881–12/23/1930	Newspaper Archives
California	San Francisco	Bay Citizen, The*	06/01/2010–Current	Recent Obituaries
Colorado	Denver	Denver Post	7/4/1903–5/22/1917	Newspaper Archives
Colorado	Denver	Denver Rocky Mountain News	11/30/1890–10/1/1898	Newspaper Archives
Colorado	Golden	Arvada Press*	08/30/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Colorado	Golden	Golden Transcript*	06/07/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Colorado	Golden	Wheat Ridge Transcript*	05/12/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Colorado	Lakewood	Lakewood Sentinel*	05/18/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Colorado	Thornton	Northglenn-Thornton Sentinel*	05/18/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Colorado	Westminster	Westminster Window*	05/18/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
District of Columbia	Washington	Daily Union	05/01/1845–12/31/1853	Newspaper Archives
District of Columbia	Washington (DC)	Evening Star	4/11/1877–12/31/1922	Newspaper Archives
Georgia	Marietta	Marietta Journal	1/15/1961–12/8/1978	Newspaper Archives
Idaho	Idaho Falls	Post Register*	01/24/2013–Current	Recent Obituaries
Illinois	Belleville	Belleville News-Democrat: Blogs*	05/22/2009–Current	Recent Obituaries
Illinois	Chicago	Chicago Sun-Times: Blogs*	02/20/2008–Current	Recent Obituaries
Illinois	Elburn	Elburn Herald*	10/09/2008–Current	Recent Obituaries
Illinois	Springfield	Daily Illinois State Register	1/1/1856–1/14/1892	Newspaper Archives
Louisiana	Baton Rouge	Advocate	10/1/1943–5/15/1958	Newspaper Archives
Louisiana	Baton Rouge	State Times Advocate	3/3/1933–9/15/1969	Newspaper Archives
Louisiana	New Orleans	NOLA Defender*	03/13/2010–Current	Recent Obituaries
Maryland	Baltimore	Sun	8/9/1922–9/3/1922	Newspaper Archives
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Herald	7/2/1855–9/19/1972	Newspaper Archives
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Herald: Blogs*	10/28/2006–Current	Recent Obituaries
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Traveler	9/1/1855–8/7/1951	Newspaper Archives
Massachusetts	Springfield	Republican, The: Web Edition Articles*	11/16/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Massachusetts	Springfield	Springfield Daily News	1/24/1914–11/6/1919	Newspaper Archives
Massachusetts	Springfield	Springfield Republican	01/18/1920–01/18/1920	Newspaper Archives
Massachusetts	Westfield	Westfield News, The*	12/13/2011–Current	Recent Obituaries
Michigan	Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor Daily Argus	11/17/1898–12/31/1906	Newspaper Archives
Michigan	Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor Daily Times	10/5/1907–4/7/1908	Newspaper Archives
Michigan	Ann Arbor	Michigan Argus	10/31/1879–12/20/1907	Newspaper Archives
Michigan	Ypsilanti	Ypsilanti Commercial	3/11/1864–8/18/1898	Newspaper Archives
Mississippi	Hattiesburg	Petal News, The*	04/21/2011–Current	Recent Obituaries
Nebraska	Omaha	Omaha Star*	01/07/2011–Current	Recent Obituaries
Nebraska	Omaha	Omaha World Herald	11/1/1981–11/30/1983	Newspaper Archives
Nevada	Boulder City	Boulder City Review*	11/05/2009–Current	Recent Obituaries
New Jersey	Leonia	Leonia Life*	01/22/2010–Current	Recent Obituaries
New York	Hastings-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry	Rivertowns Daily Voice*	08/02/2011–Current	Recent Obituaries
New York	New York	Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper	04/01/1871–10/21/1871	Newspaper Archives
New York	New York	New Yorker Volkszeitung	02/18/1894–02/28/1900	Newspaper Archives
New York	Westchester County	Newsday: Westchester County Edition*	05/02/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
North Carolina	Charlotte	Charlotte Observer, The: Blogs*	11/09/2006–Current	Recent Obituaries
North Carolina	Greensboro	Greensboro Daily News	4/14/1945–9/30/1977	Newspaper Archives
North Carolina	Greensboro	Greensboro Record	2/22/1950–4/10/1981	Newspaper Archives
North Carolina	Reidsville	Eden Daily News, The*	02/13/2013–Current	Recent Obituaries
Ohio	Cincinnati	Cincinnati Post	1/7/1886–6/4/1920	Newspaper Archives
Oregon	Hood River	Hood River News*	08/09/2001–Current	Recent Obituaries
Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	Philadelphia City Paper*	06/29/2006–Current	Recent Obituaries
South Carolina	Charleston	Charleston Courier*	8/14/1860–2/15/1861	Newspaper Archives
South Carolina	Charleston	Charleston News and Courier	11/04/1897–07/16/1913	Newspaper Archives
South Carolina	Charleston	Evening Post	9/29/1914–8/29/1921	Newspaper Archives
Texas	Fredericksburg	Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post*	08/07/2002–Current	Recent Obituaries
Vermont	Middlebury	Addison County Independent*	12/27/2006–Current	Recent Obituaries
Vermont	St. Johnsbury	Caledonian	8/12/1854–6/25/1897	Newspaper Archives
Vermont	St. Johnsbury	Caledonian-Record	11/25/1908–1/14/1925	Newspaper Archives
Virginia	Richmond	Richmond Times Dispatch	2/1/1948–12/31/1986	Newspaper Archives
Washington	Bellingham	Bellingham Herald, The: Blogs*	01/15/2008–Current	Recent Obituaries
Washington	Forks	Forks Forum*	12/15/2010–Current	Recent Obituaries
Wisconsin	Chippewa Falls	Chippewa Herald, The: Blogs*	06/21/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Wisconsin	Milwaukee	Wahrheit	09/05/1896–09/05/1896	Newspaper Archives

New Newspaper Content Added Every Day! Here Is the Latest List

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Tom Kemp

With an annual subscription to GenealogyBank you get a gift every day of the year: more content to research your family history, because every day we put more newspapers online.

Credit: Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-696

Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, art by Norman Rockwell.

Read the newspapers your ancestors read. Find the stories of your family in GenealogyBank.

We’re growing our online newspaper archives every day so that you can discover more about your genealogy.

Here is a peek at the newspaper content we added today.

State	City	Newspaper	Issues	Pages	Start	End
DC	Washington	Evening Star	237	8,225	8/17/1919	10/31/1921
DC	Washington	Daily Union	155	627	7/1/1852	12/31/1852
Illinois	Springfield	Daily Illinois State Register	2,315	9,438	1/2/1869	6/30/1887
Louisiana	Baton Rouge	Advocate	68	1,572	10/1/1943	5/15/1958
Louisiana	Baton Rouge	State Times Advocate	102	4,601	3/3/1933	9/15/1969
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Herald	207	3,232	12/10/1948	9/19/1972
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Traveller	449	17,934	7/1/1946	8/7/1951
Michigan	Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor Daily Argus	297	2,062	11/17/1898	12/31/1906
Michigan	Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor Daily Times	2	16	10/5/1907	4/7/1908
Michigan	Ann Arbor	Michigan Argus	521	3,984	10/31/1879	12/20/1907
Michigan	Ypsilanti	Ypsilanti Commercial	963	5,552	3/11/1864	8/18/1898
North Carolina	Greensboro	Greensboro Daily News	1,134	47,028	4/14/1945	3/31/1975
North Carolina	Greensboro	Greensboro Record	296	10,894	4/20/1955	10/25/1971
Ohio	Cincinnati	Cincinnati Post	121	1,020	1/7/1886	6/4/1920
South Carolina	Charleston	Evening Post	7	88	11/13/1916	8/29/1921
Virginia	Richmond	Richmond Times Dispatch	697	41,367	2/1/1948	12/31/1986

3,000+ U.S. Newspaper Archives Just Got More Content!

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Tom Kemp

It is another busy year for the GenealogyBank team as we continue to rapidly grow our online archives to offer you the best U.S. newspaper coverage for your genealogy research. We are pleased to announce that we recently added more back issues and articles to more than 3,000 newspapers from all 50 U.S. states! Now you can enjoy even more content to investigate your family history with our expanded newspaper coverage across the entire United States.

It would be too lengthy to list them all, but here is a partial list of the new newspapers we added, and the expansion to some of our existing titles: over 60 newspapers from 11 states. This gives you just a taste of the rapid growth of GenealogyBank’s online U.S. newspaper archives!

In fact, we are adding more newspapers right now, as we do each and every day to help you do better genealogy research.

Dig in and tell us what you find.

State	City	Newspaper	Coverae	Collection
Alabama	Mobile	Alabama Staats-Zeitung	02/08/1917–02/08/1917	Newspaper Archives
California	Martinez	Martinez News-Gazette*	01/06/2009–Current	Recent Obituaries
California	San Diego	Evening Tribune	9/29/1908–12/31/1914	Newspaper Archives
California	San Diego	San Diego Union	05/12/1871–07/17/1905	Newspaper Archives
District of Columbia	Washington	Daily Union	01/02/1846–12/31/1850	Newspaper Archives
District of Columbia	Washington	Evening Star	3/7/1913–2/9/1921	Newspaper Archives
Illinois	Chicago	Chicago Crusader*	11/26/2011–Current	Recent Obituaries
Illinois	Peoria	Journal Star	4/1/1951–3/31/1953	Newspaper Archives
Illinois	Springfield	Daily Illinois State Journal	1/9/1907–3/23/1913	Newspaper Archives
Illinois	Springfield	Daily Illinois State Register	4/1/1915–12/3/1922	Newspaper Archives
Indiana	Gary	Gary Crusader*	12/03/2011–Current	Recent Obituaries
Louisiana	Baton Rouge	State Times Advocate	3/1/1933–7/30/1975	Newspaper Archives
Louisiana	New Orleans	Advocate, The: New Orleans Edition*	10/22/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Maine	Biddeford	Justice de Biddeford	09/16/1897–03/02/1950	Newspaper Archives
Maine	Sanford	Justice de Sanford	04/29/1926–12/06/1928	Newspaper Archives
Maryland	Baltimore	American and Commercial Daily Advertiser	12/28/1850–06/30/1853	Newspaper Archives
Massachusetts	Boston	American Traveller*	05/02/1862–10/21/1862	Newspaper Archives
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Herald	1/1/1851–12/30/1972	Newspaper Archives
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Traveller	10/1/1945–12/31/1951	Newspaper Archives
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Traveller*	10/02/1854–03/31/1864	Newspaper Archives
Michigan	Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor Daily Argus*	11/16/1898–6/24/1907	Newspaper Archives
Michigan	Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor Daily Times	10/15/1903–5/2/1908	Newspaper Archives
Michigan	Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor Daily Times*	9/1/1903–12/29/1906	Newspaper Archives
Michigan	Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor News-Argus*	6/25/1907–5/2/1908	Newspaper Archives
Michigan	Ann Arbor	Michigan Argus*	10/17/1879–12/27/1907	Newspaper Archives
Michigan	Ann Arbor	True Democrat*	12/19/1845–3/8/1849	Newspaper Archives
Michigan	Ypsilanti	Ypsilanti Commercial*	4/17/1869–8/25/1898	Newspaper Archives
New Jersey	Collingswood	Retrospect, The*	01/06/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
New Jersey	Egg Harbor City	Egg Harbor Pilot	10/17/1908–02/20/1915	Newspaper Archives
New Jersey	Newark	Newark Daily Advertiser	12/28/1864–12/29/1866	Newspaper Archives
New York	New York	Courrier des Etats-Unis	11/17/1859–01/26/1885	Newspaper Archives
New York	New York	Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper	06/04/1870–10/28/1871	Newspaper Archives
New York	New York	New Yorker Volkszeitung*	01/14/1894–02/27/1898	Newspaper Archives
New York	Plattsburgh	Burgh, The*	08/05/2011–Current	Recent Obituaries
New York	Skaneateles	Skaneateles Press*	08/04/2011–Current	Recent Obituaries
North Carolina	Greensboro	Greensboro Daily News	7/30/1939–2/12/1973	Newspaper Archives
North Carolina	Greensboro	Greensboro Record	9/13/1946–7/14/1964	Newspaper Archives
Ohio	Cincinnati	Cincinnati Post	6/17/1885–6/26/1897	Newspaper Archives
Oklahoma	Bethany	Bethany Tribune*	12/07/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Oklahoma	Fairland	American, The*	10/04/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Oklahoma	Nowata	Nowata Star*	10/03/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Oklahoma	Perry	Perry Daily Journal*	12/04/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Oklahoma	Vinita	Vinita Daily Journal, The*	11/10/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Oklahoma	Weatherford	Weatherford Daily News*	11/27/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Pennsylvania	Erie	Erie Tageblatt	03/07/1899–04/20/1903	Newspaper Archives
Pennsylvania	Harrisburg	Unparteyische Harrisburg Morgenroethe Zeitung	02/03/1831–02/03/1831	Newspaper Archives
Pennsylvania	Jeannette	Jeannette Spirit, The*	11/15/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Pennsylvania	Ligonier	Ligonier Echo, The*	04/21/2011–Current	Recent Obituaries
Pennsylvania	Monroeville	North Journal*	04/12/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Pennsylvania	Monroeville	Times Express, The*	04/14/2011–Current	Recent Obituaries
Pennsylvania	Penn Hills	Plum Advance Leader*	11/08/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
Pennsylvania	Pittsburgh	Druid	01/15/1929–03/01/1929	Newspaper Archives
Pennsylvania	Pittsburgh	National Labor Tribune	01/11/1941–08/18/1945	Newspaper Archives
Pennsylvania	Scottdale	Independent-Observer, The*	04/21/2011–Current	Recent Obituaries
Pennsylvania	South Hills	South Hills Record*	11/07/2012–Current	Recent Obituaries
South Carolina	Charleston	Charleston News and Courier	2/21/1895–4/13/1910	Newspaper Archives
South Carolina	Charleston	Evening Post	5/26/1899–6/20/1922	Newspaper Archives
Tennessee	Spring Hill	Advertiser News, The*	05/14/2007–Current	Recent Obituaries
Texas	Jasper	Jasper Newsboy, The*	12/28/2005–Current	Recent Obituaries
Virginia	Richmond	Richmond Times Dispatch	6/11/1944–9/15/1986	Newspaper Archives
Washington	Ocean Shores	North Coast News, The*	03/24/2009–03/23/2012	Recent Obituaries
Wisconsin	Milwaukee	Wahrheit	12/22/1906–06/25/1910	Newspaper Archives

Our United States Recent Obituary Collection Keeps Growing…

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Tom Kemp

In the next two weeks GenealogyBank will expand our online U.S. Recent Obituaries collection by adding content from 14 newspapers from 12 states: California, Florida, Illinois, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington. Some of these newspaper titles are brand new to our recent obituary collection; in other cases, we’ve added more obituaries to existing newspaper titles.

It’s a great day for genealogy!

Here is the list of U.S. newspaper obituaries that will be added or expanded in our online archives soon:

Martinez News-Gazette (Martinez, CA)

Obituaries: 01/06/2009 – Current

Daytona Beach News-Journal (Daytona Beach, FL)

Death Notices: 01/01/2005 – Current; scattered 2000 data also available

Harrisburg Daily Register (Harrisburg, IL)

Obituaries: added 11/4/1996 – 10/5/2009 to existing collection
Death Notices: added 12/10/1996 – 3/10/2010 to existing collection

Kearney Hub (Kearney, NE)

Death Notices: 12/19/2006 – Current

Wahoo Newspaper (Wahoo, NE)

Death Notices: 02/01/2007 – Current

Jersey Journal (Jersey City, NJ)

Obituaries: added 1/16/1999 – 6/20/2003 to existing collection

Burgh (Plattsburgh, NY)

Obituaries: 08/05/2011 – Current

Skaneateles Press (Skaneateles, NY)

Obituaries: 08/04/2011 – Current

Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, NC)

Death Notices: 01/11/2012 – Current

Jeannette Spirit (Jeannette, PA) – this title’s search form is still being set up

Obituaries: 11/15/2012 – Current

Advertiser News (Spring Hill, TN)

Obituaries: 05/19/2007 – Current

Jasper Newsboy (Jasper, TX)

Obituaries: 07/25/2007 – Current; scattered earlier data also available

News & Messenger (Manassas, VA)

Obituaries: added 5/02/2008 – 1/21/2011 to existing collection

North Coast News (Ocean Shores, WA)

Obituaries: 03/24/2009 – 03/23/2012

1800s Newspaper Ad: Reward for Army Deserters

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Tom Kemp

Fort Johnson in South Carolina was no different from Army bases across the country. From time to time soldiers deserted, as these men did on 3 January 1810. Captain A.B. Armistead wanted them back—and so he ran a newspaper ad offering “ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD for six Deserters, who deserted from this post on the 3d instant” and promising to pay “all expenses.”

reward ad for Army deserters, City Gazette & Daily Advertiser newspaper article 6 January 1810

The City Gazette & Daily Advertiser (Charleston, South Carolina), 6 January 1810, page 1

Armistead’s reward ad provided descriptions of the Army deserters.

description of Army deserters, City Gazette & Daily Advertiser newspaper article 6 January 1810

The City Gazette & Daily Advertiser (Charleston, South Carolina), 6 January 1810, page 1

In a note at the end of his 1800s newspaper reward ad, Armistead asked all of the newspapers in Georgia, North and South Carolina to print “this advertisement six times” and to send him the bill.

The City Gazette & Daily Advertiser (Charleston, South Carolina), 6 January 1810, page 1

Here are some of the descriptions of the Army deserters:

Charles Merul was “a native of South-Carolina, twenty three years of age, five feet ten inches high, has light complexion and dark hair; went off in citizens clothes”
Daniel Holloway was “a native of Virginia, twenty three years of age, five feet nine inches high, has fair complexion, blue eyes, and dark hair”
John Wynne “was born in Georgia”; the ad gives a physical description of him, but the key identifiers were the pistols he was carrying, described as: “uncommon, particularly with respect to the locks and the fixing of the ramrod”

Old newspaper reward ads like this one, published in an attempt to reclaim military deserters, can be rich sources of genealogical information—often providing the names, origins, ages and physical descriptions of the missing soldiers. Historical newspapers had all the news of the day. Every day I am surprised by what I find doing genealogy research in the archives!

GenealogyBank’s Archives Keep Growing, Every Single Day

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Tom Kemp

In the next few weeks GenealogyBank will be adding even more newspapers to its vast online historical newspaper archives, which currently contain more than 6,400 titles and over 1.25 billion articles—including more than 215 million obituaries.

Here is a list of the newspaper titles and date ranges that will be added from seven states: Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, and Virginia—plus the District of Columbia.

State	City	Newspaper	Issues	Pages	Start	End
District of Columbia	Washington (DC)	Evening Star	812	22234	4/28/1908	3/20/1912
Illinois	Springfield	Daily Illinois State Register	81	1184	7/3/1896	7/25/1915
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Daily Record	226	3956	6/6/1958	8/25/1961
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Herald	4819	78844	9/21/1920	1/31/1969
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Traveller	1029	41660	7/1/1948	10/31/1959
Nebraska	Omaha	Omaha World Herald	1	52	9/17/1981	9/17/1981
North Carolina	Greensboro	Greensboro Daily News	30	620	7/1/1939	7/31/1939
North Carolina	Greensboro	Greensboro News and Record	38	3940	4/4/1984	2/23/1986
North Carolina	Greensboro	Greensboro Record	62	2295	3/1/1946	10/21/1983
Ohio	Cincinnati	Cincinnati Post	23	425	7/23/1915	12/20/1922
South Carolina	Charleston	Evening Post	5	62	10/5/1912	7/16/1913
Virginia	Richmond	Richmond Times Dispatch	43	2433	10/27/1935	1/31/1954

Thousands of Old Newspaper Back Issues Added Online Every Day!

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Tom Kemp

It is exciting to see the fast pace of more back issues being digitized and added to GenealogyBank’s online historical newspaper archives. Checking in with our production team I found that just this week they were adding another 3,000 back issues from the Boston Herald (Boston, Massachusetts), 477 issues from the Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, North Carolina), and 81 back issues from the Richmond Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia).

In fact GenealogyBank adds content from over 3,000 newspapers every day. That’s amazing growth, providing you some of the most comprehensive U.S. newspaper coverage available anywhere to research your family history.

Here is a list of just a handful of the old newspaper back issues added online today:

State	City	Newspaper	Issues	Pages	Start	End
District of Columbia	Washington (DC)	Evening Star	488	13,634	1/27/1906	11/19/1907
Illinois	Rockford	Register Star	3	18	11/17/1991	7/20/1996
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Daily Record	1,313	24,255	5/16/1959	9/30/1961
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Herald	3,050	40,578	5/16/1962	11/30/1989
Massachusetts	Boston	Boston Traveler	494	20,313	1/4/1954	5/27/1963
North Carolina	Greensboro	Greensboro Daily News	477	10,922	3/8/1923	3/31/1947
North Carolina	Greensboro	Greensboro News and Record	36	4,283	8/2/1985	9/17/1987
Virginia	Richmond	Richmond Times Dispatch	81	4,009	9/27/1970	7/31/1986

GenealogyBank Is Growing Rapidly!

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Tom Kemp

Every day we add more newspapers to GenealogyBank’s online newspaper archives, updating our coverage for more than 3,000 newspapers.

Rain, snow, it doesn’t matter—we digitize and post daily papers published today across America, as well as newspapers published 300 years ago. Millions of records are added every month to our archives.

We add new titles and expand the date ranges of newspapers already in our collection.

When we add a back run of a newspaper we may not yet have tracked down every issue ever published by that newspaper. However, we digitize and put online all the issues we can find, while continuing to track back issues with the goal of someday getting every possible issue online.

Here is just a partial list of what we have been working on in the past few weeks. I think it will give you a sense of the enormous scale of the service that GenealogyBank is bringing to genealogists online. Notice that we found one more issue of the Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, Georgia) and over 1,500 issues of the American & Commercial Daily Advertiser (Baltimore, Maryland): as we find back issues we digitize and index them, then put them online.

It’s a great day for genealogy.

Location	Newspaper	Issues	Pages	Start	End
Albany, NY	Albany Evening Journal	51	209	1856-01-29	1875-03-03
Annapolis, MD	Maryland Gazette	6	25	1824-03-11	1829-01-15
Augusta, GA	Augusta Chronicle	1	3	1792-01-07
Baltimore, MD	American and Commercial Daily Advertiser	1,518	6,220	1844-06-10	1853-12-31
Baltimore, MD	Baltimore American	9	130	1903-04-18	1911-05-03
Bangor, ME	Bangor Weekly Register	1	5	1831-06-21
Beaumont, TX	Beaumont Enterprise	6	123	1906-05-04	1910-04-26
Beaumont, TX	Beaumont Journal	1	28	1910-09-11
Bellows Falls, VT	Bellows Falls Gazette	21	87	1841-01-30	1851-03-28
Benicia, CA	California Gazette	1	4	1852-02-07
Bennington, VT	Vermont Gazette	1	4	1874-09-05
Biddeford, ME	Justice de Biddeford	18	122	1896-08-06	1905-04-06
Boston, MA	American Traveller	24	98	1825-07-26	1835-12-29
Boston, MA	Boston Courier	1	4	1845-05-05
Boston, MA	Boston Daily Advertiser	1	4	1874-01-22
Boston, MA	Boston Herald	5	96	1864-04-28	1897-03-14
Boston, MA	Boston Post	6	24	1858-07-12	1865-09-28
Boston, MA	Repertory	4	16	1822-01-22	1823-03-15
Boston, MA	Weekly Messenger	4	19	1829-01-15	1831-03-31
Brattleboro, VT	Vermont Phoenix	1	4	1866-09-28
Camden, SC	Camden Journal	4	16	1841-03-24	1841-09-08
Charleston, SC	Charleston Courier	3	12	1808-01-23	1808-10-24
Charleston, SC	Charleston News and Courier	552	2,271	1873-03-20	1886-04-10
Charleston, SC	South-Carolina State-Gazette	6	48	1801-10-22	1801-12-31
Cherry Valley, NY	Cherry-Valley Gazette	42	191	1821-01-02	1825-07-12
Chillicothe, OH	Scioto Gazette	103	429	1835-04-29	1837-12-14
Cincinnati, OH	Cincinnati Daily Times	162	654	1875-11-02	1876-12-30
Columbia, SC	South Carolina State Gazette	4	17	1823-11-28	1829-02-28
Concord, NH	New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette	2	12	1879-10-09	1888-04-05
Egg Harbor City, NJ	Egg Harbor Pilot	480	2,777	1872-08-03	1904-12-24
Emporia, KS	Emporia Gazette	104	653	1912-06-01	1912-09-30
Exeter, NH	Freeman’s Oracle	25	140	1786-08-29	1789-08-04
Frankfort, KY	Guardian Of Freedom	5	22	1798-06-19	1804-05-26
Galveston, TX	Galveston Weekly News	1	8	1881-10-13
Grand Rapids, MI	Grand Rapids Press	11	226	1901-02-26	1922-12-07
Hallowell, ME	Hallowell Gazette	2	9	1860-11-03	1861-04-06
Harrisburg, PA	Patriot	11	104	1885-02-21	1917-01-16
Harrisburg, PA	Unparteyische Harrisburg Morgenroethe Zeitung	926	3,794	1799-03-12	1840-11-05
Hartford, CT	Connecticut Courant	79	326	1851-01-04	1876-12-21
Hartford, CT	Connecticut Courant	6	24	1842-01-15	1843-09-16
Jackson, MI	Jackson Citizen Patriot	9	158	1903-10-31	1922-08-02
Jonesboro, AR	Jonesboro Daily Tribune	1	8	1921-03-02
Jonesboro, AR	Jonesboro Evening Sun	2	12	1905-12-16	1921-04-23
Lancaster, PA	Lancaster Journal	17	69	1817-11-03	1817-12-10
Litchfield, CT	Litchfield Republican	11	44	1855-06-07	1856-06-13
Miami, OK	Miami District Daily News	180	1,444	1917-09-05	1923-01-12
Morristown, NJ	Genius of Liberty	136	552	1798-05-31	1801-03-26
Natchez, MS	Ariel	1	8	1826-09-29
Nebraska City, NB	Daily Nebraska Press	3	12	1873-12-03	1875-10-27
New Bern, NC	North Carolina Sentinel	7	28	1827-07-14	1830-10-16
New Haven, CT	Columbian Register	71	286	1826-02-11	1874-02-21
New Haven, CT	Connecticut Herald	2	8	1831-06-21	1832-09-04
New Orleans, LA	Courrier de la Louisiane	1	4	1823-12-08
New Orleans, LA	Times-Picayune	5	132	1907-03-20	1914-01-23
New York, NY	Commercial Advertiser	4	16	1843-05-29	1848-12-29
New York, NY	Courrier des Etats-Unis	702	3,308	1876-07-09	1891-03-31
New York, NY	Evening Post	62	267	1821-01-02	1874-05-30
New York, NY	Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper	71	1,156	1867-07-13	1869-03-13
New York, NY	Morning Telegraph	1	8	1872-11-17
New York, NY	National Advocate	9	36	1822-01-01	1826-08-15
New York, NY	New York Herald	1	12	1875-08-10
New York, NY	New York Herald-Tribune	51	514	1874-11-19	1896-05-09
New York, NY	Statesman	2	8	1824-04-23	1824-06-29
Newark, NJ	Centinel Of Freedom	2	8	1863-01-13	1869-08-24
Newark, NJ	Newark Daily Advertiser	2,143	8,729	1850-01-02	1857-12-31
Northampton, MA	Hampshire Gazette	165	670	1830-03-10	1843-12-26
Norwich, CT	Norwich Courier	448	1,849	1834-01-08	1876-08-16
Pensacola, FL	Pensacola Gazette	6	24	1829-11-21	1840-12-19
Philadelphia, PA	National Gazette	2	8	1831-11-08	1840-11-10
Philadelphia, PA	Public Ledger	4	16	1859-07-19	1859-11-15
Pittsburg, PA	Commonwealth	33	135	1805-09-14	1808-03-02
Portland, ME	Portland Advertiser	3	12	1833-10-22	1834-10-25
Portland, ME	Portland Daily Press	22	88	1872-02-07	1882-02-09
Portland, OR	Daily Oregon Herald	23	92	1871-02-12	1872-10-09
Providence, RI	Manufacturers’ and Farmers’ Journal	2	12	1869-01-28	1869-05-13
Richmond, VA	Richmond Times Dispatch	1	50	1921-07-10
Richmond, VA	Richmond Whig	3	17	1864-06-21	1872-06-07
Richmond, VA	Virginia Patriot	2	8	1815-06-14	1815-10-25
Salem, MA	Salem Observer	784	3,204	1824-01-03	1874-01-10
Salem, MA	Salem Register	6	24	1853-11-07	1873-03-10
Salem, NJ	Salem Standard and Jerseyman	6	24	1821-10-10	1829-03-11
Salt Lake City, UT	Salt Lake Telegram	752	8,358	1902-01-30	1922-01-29
San Francisco, CA	Weekly Pacific News	2	8	1850-03-01	1851-02-01
Saratoga Springs, NY	Saratoga Sentinel	1	5	1829-01-27
Savannah, GA	Georgian	1	4	1822-05-04
Schenectady, NY	Cabinet	8	32	1818-09-23	1819-12-01
St. Albans, VT	St. Albans Advertiser	1	4	1875-08-03
St. Albans, VT	St. Albans Daily Messenger	44	346	1879-07-19	1922-05-31
St. Albans, VT	St. Albans Messenger	3	16	1848-01-26	1891-11-12
St. Augustine, FL	Florida Herald and Southern Democrat	7	28	1829-07-15	1839-05-09
Steubenville, OH	Steubenville Herald	2	8	1816-06-21	1817-07-04
Trenton, NJ	Trenton Evening Times	136	3,350	1902-06-22	1922-12-31
Trenton, NJ	True American	1	4	1808-12-12
Tulsa, OK	Tulsa World	1	20	1922-05-17
Utica, NY	Columbian Gazette	4	16	1807-08-18	1811-05-14
Washington, DC	Washington Sentinel	101	431	1853-10-02	1854-02-09
Washington, PA	Washington Reporter	4	16	1847-05-01	1863-05-27
Washington, PA	Washington Review and Examiner	1	4	1853-09-17
Waterford, NY	Waterford Gazette	2	8	1804-04-03	1804-04-24
West Springfield, MA	American Intelligencer	13	52	1796-05-10	1797-06-27
Wilmington, DE	Delaware and Eastern-Shore Advertiser	1	4	1795-04-25
Wilmington, DE	Mirror of the Times, and General Advertiser	2	8	1800-02-05	1800-02-08
Worcester, MA	National Aegis	1	16	1873-08-23

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