Idaho Archives: 141 Newspapers for Genealogy Research

By September 28, 2023
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If you are researching your ancestry from Idaho, you will want to use GenealogyBank’s online ID newspaper archives: 141 titles to help you search your family history in the “Gem State,” providing coverage from 1863 to Today. There are millions of articles and records in our online Idaho newspaper archives!

Photo: Mt. Jefferson in Island Park, Idaho, with Indian Paintbrush flowers. Credit: Metrodyne; Wikimedia Commons.
Photo: Mt. Jefferson in Island Park, Idaho, with Indian Paintbrush flowers. Credit: Metrodyne; Wikimedia Commons.

Dig deep into our online archives and search for articles about your ancestors from Idaho in these newspapers. Our ID newspapers are divided into two collections, each with their own search page:

  • Newspaper Archives (complete paper with all articles, including historical obituaries, with a number of very rare single-issue newspapers – many of them are the only known issues of the paper)
  • Obituaries (including both historical and recent obituaries, if obits are specifically what you are searching for)

Search Idaho Newspaper Archives (1863 – 1969)

Search Idaho Obituaries (1893 – Today)

Illustration: Idaho state flag. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Illustration: Idaho state flag. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Here is the complete list of Idaho newspapers in the online archives. Each newspaper title in this list is an active link that will take you directly to that paper’s search page, where you can begin searching for your ancestors by surnames, dates, keywords and more. The ID newspaper titles are listed alphabetically by city.

City Title Years of Coverage Collection
American Falls American Falls press 07/27/1907 – 11/26/1925 Newspaper Archives
Ashton Ashton Herald 04/06/1922 – 12/25/1969 Newspaper Archives
Bannock City Boise news 09/29/1863 – 03/06/1875 Newspaper Archives
Blackfoot Morning News 08/02/2008 – 05/02/2020 Obituaries
Blackfoot Blackfoot Register 07/10/1880 – 03/22/1884 Newspaper Archives
Blackfoot Blackfoot news 11/07/1891 – 01/01/1902 Newspaper Archives
Blackfoot Blackfoot optimist 12/15/1910 – 12/28/1916 Newspaper Archives
Blackfoot Idaho news 06/11/1887 – 10/31/1891 Newspaper Archives
Blackfoot Idaho Republican 07/22/1904 – 12/25/1924 Newspaper Archives
Blackfoot Bingham County news 04/15/1921 – 12/28/1923 Newspaper Archives
Blackfoot Bingham County Chronicle 03/15/2019 – 07/25/2023 Obituaries
Boise Idaho Democrat 01/28/1871 – 06/28/1871 Newspaper Archives
Boise Idaho Business Review 03/01/2004 – Current Obituaries
Boise Evening Bulletin 02/18/1882 – 03/24/1883 Newspaper Archives
Boise Evening capital news 09/16/1912 – 01/14/1920 Newspaper Archives
Boise Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald 12/17/1914 – 01/04/1917 Newspaper Archives
Boise Idaho labor herald 11/14/1914 – 12/10/1914 Newspaper Archives
Boise Idaho scimitar 11/02/1907 – 10/03/1908 Newspaper Archives
Boise Idaho Herald 01/05/1872 – 04/05/1872 Newspaper Archives
Boise Idaho Weekly Statesman 08/28/1875 – 10/05/1889 Newspaper Archives
Boise NBC – 7 KTVB 06/12/2009 – Current Obituaries
Boise Boise Weekly 04/07/2004 – Current Obituaries
Boise Boise citizen 12/07/1906 – 11/25/1910 Newspaper Archives
Bonanza City Yankee Fork Herald 03/06/1880 – 11/10/1881 Newspaper Archives
Bonners Ferry Bonners Ferry Herald 10/05/2006 – Current Obituaries
Bonners Ferry Kootenai herald 07/11/1891 – 12/24/1904 Newspaper Archives
Bonners Ferry Kootenai herald 02/26/1892 – 12/29/1894 Newspaper Archives
Bonners Ferry Bonners Ferry herald 12/31/1904 – 12/28/1922 Newspaper Archives
Caldwell Caldwell tribune 12/22/1883 – 12/26/1924 Newspaper Archives
Challis Challis Messenger 03/17/2005 – Current Obituaries
Challis Challis messenger 07/31/1894 – 12/30/1925 Newspaper Archives
Challis Idaho Messenger 07/10/1888 – 07/16/1889 Newspaper Archives
Coeur d’Alene Coeur d’Alene Press 10/01/2003 – Current Obituaries
Coeur d’Alene Idaho Spokesman-Review 07/03/1994 – 11/28/2007 Obituaries
Coeur d’Alene Coeur d”Alene evening press 08/06/1906 – 07/30/1910 Newspaper Archives
Coeur d’Alene Coeur d”Alene press 02/20/1892 – 01/27/1906 Newspaper Archives
Cottonwood Camas Prairie chronicle 04/05/1901 – 09/14/1917 Newspaper Archives
Cottonwood Cottonwood report 01/27/1893 – 03/29/1901 Newspaper Archives
Cottonwood Cottonwood chronicle 09/21/1917 – 12/28/1923 Newspaper Archives
County Idaho Education News 04/01/2013 – Current Obituaries
DeLamar DeLamar nugget 05/19/1891 – 12/29/1899 Newspaper Archives
Driggs Teton Valley News 11/15/2018 – Current Obituaries
Elk City Elk City mining news 12/25/1903 – 07/31/1913 Newspaper Archives
Emmett Messenger-Index 01/08/2008 – Current Obituaries
Emmett Emmett index 11/04/1893 – 12/27/1923 Newspaper Archives
Filer Filer record 03/20/1919 – 12/25/1924 Newspaper Archives
Grangeville Grangeville globe 12/04/1907 – 04/27/1922 Newspaper Archives
Grangeville Idaho County free press 06/18/1886 – 12/25/1924 Newspaper Archives
Hailey Wood River times 05/20/1882 – 12/30/1893 Newspaper Archives
Hunt Minidoka Irrigator 09/10/1942 – 07/28/1945 Newspaper Archives
Idaho City Idaho Semi-weekly World 03/14/1875 – 12/29/1893 Newspaper Archives
Idaho City Idaho Semi-weekly World 08/15/1876 – 08/15/1876 Newspaper Archives
Idaho City Idaho World Weekly 07/28/1876 – 07/28/1876 Newspaper Archives
Idaho City Idaho Semi-weekly World 05/04/1867 – 11/04/1868 Newspaper Archives
Idaho Falls Post Register 01/02/1992 – Current Obituaries
Idaho Falls Citizen 03/11/1907 – 04/01/1907 Newspaper Archives
Idaho Falls Idaho Falls Times 07/09/1891 – 06/17/1920 Newspaper Archives
Idaho Falls Idaho Register 04/04/1885 – 09/14/1920 Newspaper Archives
Idaho Falls Idaho Falls Daily Post 03/31/1916 – 10/30/1931 Newspaper Archives
Idaho Falls Post-Register 01/02/1940 – 12/31/1950 Newspaper Archives
Idaho Falls Times-Register 09/17/1920 – 01/01/1930 Newspaper Archives
Jerome Lincoln County times 03/09/1911 – 02/13/1919 Newspaper Archives
Jerome Jerome County times 02/20/1919 – 02/12/1920 Newspaper Archives
Kellogg Shoshone News-Press 04/06/2007 – Current Obituaries
Kendrick Kendrick gazette 05/01/1903 – 12/29/1922 Newspaper Archives
Ketchum Idaho semi-weekly keystone 07/04/1885 – 08/15/1885 Newspaper Archives
Ketchum Idaho weekly keystone 06/21/1884 – 10/04/1884 Newspaper Archives
Ketchum Ketchum daily keystone 06/21/1884 – 09/27/1884 Newspaper Archives
Ketchum Ketchum keystone 08/29/1885 – 02/04/1899 Newspaper Archives
Ketchum Ketchum keystone 12/24/1881 – 06/14/1884 Newspaper Archives
Kuna Kuna Melba News 04/11/2013 – Current Obituaries
Lardo Long Valley advocate 10/27/1904 – 11/28/1907 Newspaper Archives
Lewiston Lewiston Tribune 12/01/1989 – Current Obituaries
Lewiston Teller 04/21/1877 – 08/01/1895 Newspaper Archives
Lewiston Weekly Tribune 10/09/1897 – 12/30/1898 Newspaper Archives
Lewiston Lewiston Tribune 09/28/1893 – 12/31/1969 Newspaper Archives
Lewiston Lewiston daily teller 10/21/1876 – 01/12/1901 Newspaper Archives
Lewiston Lewiston evening teller 10/26/1903 – 12/31/1908 Newspaper Archives
Lewiston Lewiston inter-state news 04/14/1905 – 12/29/1905 Newspaper Archives
Lewiston Lewiston teller 01/17/1901 – 04/11/1905 Newspaper Archives
Malad Idaho Enterprise 01/08/1890 – 01/15/1890 Newspaper Archives
Marsing Owyhee nugget 01/06/1905 – 06/20/1912 Newspaper Archives
Meridian Meridian Press 12/01/2012 – Current Obituaries
Meridian Meridian times 05/07/1909 – 06/30/1922 Newspaper Archives
Montpelier News-Examiner 02/04/2010 – Current Obituaries
Montpelier Montpelier examiner 02/29/1896 – 03/16/1922 Newspaper Archives
Moscow Moscow-Pullman Daily News 01/01/1998 – Current Obituaries
Mountain Home Elmore County Republican 05/07/1910 – 12/04/1915 Newspaper Archives
Mountain Home Mountain Home bulletin 06/02/1888 – 05/25/1889 Newspaper Archives
Mountain Home Republican 01/03/1905 – 11/27/1909 Newspaper Archives
Mountain Home Mountain Home Republican 12/11/1915 – 06/25/1926 Newspaper Archives
Mountain Home Mountain Home maverick 05/10/1906 – 08/03/1911 Newspaper Archives
Murray Coeur d’Alene Record 12/07/1888 – 02/17/1889 Newspaper Archives
Nampa Idaho Press 10/22/1998 – Current Obituaries
Nampa Nampa Progress 03/01/1890 – 11/01/1890 Newspaper Archives
Nampa Idaho Press: Blogs 05/24/2009 – 03/03/2014 Obituaries
Nezperce Nezperce herald 04/19/1901 – 12/24/1924 Newspaper Archives
Oakley Oakley eagle 09/14/1905 – 12/13/1906 Newspaper Archives
Oakley Oakley herald 02/11/1910 – 12/26/1924 Newspaper Archives
Orofino Clearwater Republican 03/28/1912 – 04/28/1922 Newspaper Archives
Parma Parma herald 10/17/1903 – 10/11/1917 Newspaper Archives
Payette Independent Enterprise 05/16/2007 – 06/17/2020 Obituaries
Payette Payette enterprise 09/02/1909 – 12/25/1924 Newspaper Archives
Pocatello Idaho State Journal 02/19/2000 – Current Obituaries
Pocatello Idaho State Journal: Blogs 05/14/2010 – 03/07/2017 Obituaries
Preston Preston Citizen 11/05/2011 – Current Obituaries
Priest River Priest River Times 06/05/2006 – 02/07/2018 Obituaries
Rathdrum Kootenai Courier 06/29/1889 – 06/21/1890 Newspaper Archives
Rathdrum Rathdrum tribune 05/08/1903 – 12/26/1924 Newspaper Archives
Rathdrum Silver blade 06/01/1895 – 04/24/1903 Newspaper Archives
Rexburg Standard-Journal 01/24/2015 – Current Obituaries
Richfield Richfield recorder 04/22/1909 – 12/29/1916 Newspaper Archives
Rigby Jefferson Star 07/25/2012 – Current Obituaries
Rocky Bar Elmore bulletin 06/01/1889 – 06/01/1905 Newspaper Archives
Ruby City Owyhee Avalanche 08/19/1865 – 08/11/1866 Newspaper Archives
Saint Anthony Teton peak-chronicle 01/01/1903 – 04/20/1905 Newspaper Archives
Saint Maries Record 05/06/1913 – 03/29/1918 Newspaper Archives
Salmon City Idaho Recorder 12/12/1889 – 05/04/1892 Newspaper Archives
Salmon City Semi-weekly Mining News 08/11/1867 – 08/11/1867 Newspaper Archives
Salmon City Idaho Recorder 10/13/1904 – 12/29/1922 Newspaper Archives
Sandpoint Bonner County Daily Bee 03/02/2004 – Current Obituaries
Sandpoint Kootenai County Republican 05/26/1899 – 07/05/1901 Newspaper Archives
Sandpoint Kootenai County Republican 07/12/1901 – 05/30/1902 Newspaper Archives
Shelley Shelley Pioneer 08/29/2012 – 12/20/2017 Obituaries
Shoshone Shoshone journal 02/07/1896 – 03/28/1924 Newspaper Archives
Silver City Owyhee Avalanche 08/18/1866 – 12/28/1900 Newspaper Archives
Silver City Owyhee Daily Avalanche 10/17/1874 – 04/26/1876 Newspaper Archives
Silver City Owyhee Semi-Weekly Tidal Wave 12/15/1868 – 02/10/1870 Newspaper Archives
Silver City Owyhee bullion 11/15/1866 – 11/07/1867 Newspaper Archives
Silver City Owyhee Semi-Weekly Tidal Wave 12/15/1868 – 02/10/1870 Newspaper Archives
Silver City Silver City nugget 01/04/1901 – 12/30/1904 Newspaper Archives
Troy Troy weekly news 01/27/1905 – 12/25/1908 Newspaper Archives
Twin Falls Times-News 08/25/1999 – Current Obituaries
Twin Falls Twin Falls Daily News 04/08/1918 – 12/31/1922 Newspaper Archives
Twin Falls Idaho Evening Times 09/01/1941 – 02/14/1942 Newspaper Archives
Twin Falls Twin Falls times 04/02/1908 – 12/14/1916 Newspaper Archives
Twin Falls Twice-a-week Twin Falls times 12/19/1916 – 04/09/1918 Newspaper Archives
Wallace Wallace miner 02/21/1907 – 02/07/1924 Newspaper Archives
Weiser Weiser semi-weekly signal 04/02/1904 – 06/28/1905 Newspaper Archives
Weiser Weiser signal 12/18/1890 – 03/30/1904 Newspaper Archives

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