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May Addition: GenealogyBank Just Added New Content from 47 Titles!

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Every day, GenealogyBank is working hard to digitize more newspapers and obituaries, expanding our collection to give you the largest newspaper archives for family history research available online. We just completed adding new content from 46 newspaper titles, increasing our content coverage from coast to coast.

Here are some of the details about our most recent U.S. newspaper additions:

Here is a list of the May additions. To see our newspaper archives’ entire title list of more than 15,000 newspapers, click here.

State City Title Years of Coverage Issues Added Collection
Alabama County al.com New! 02/27/2023 – Current Obituaries
Alaska Anchorage Anchorage Daily Times 03/01/1927 – 12/31/1949 6941 Newspaper Archives
Arkansas Van Buren Arkansas Intelligencer 03/11/1843 – 09/04/1847 208 Newspaper Archives
Arkansas Van Buren Van Buren Press New! 07/06/1859 – 09/21/1912 1397 Newspaper Archives
Arkansas Washington Washington Telegraph New! 07/19/1843 – 12/20/1865 707 Newspaper Archives
California El Centro Imperial Valley press 02/14/1941 – 10/08/1944 1135 Newspaper Archives
California San Francisco San Francisco Vindicator New! 05/02/1887 – 08/13/1887 6 Newspaper Archives
California Oakland Western outlook New! 11/07/1914 – 05/26/1928 80 Newspaper Archives
Florida Daytona Beach Daytona Beach Morning Journal 10/15/1947 – 11/30/1982 17 Newspaper Archives
Georgia Marietta Marietta Journal 01/03/1907 – 08/26/1909 130 Newspaper Archives
Georgia Cordele Cordele dispatch New! 01/05/1916 – 05/30/1917 124 Newspaper Archives
Georgia Marietta Marietta Journal New! 11/15/1918 – 07/31/1924 240 Newspaper Archives
Georgia Marietta Marietta journal and courier New! 09/03/1909 – 11/08/1918 469 Newspaper Archives
Illinois Springfield State Journal-Register 06/01/1991 – 12/15/2006 27 Newspaper Archives
Illinois Pittsfield Pike Press New! 03/15/2022 – Current Obituaries
Illinois Mascoutah Herald New! 01/05/2023 – Current Obituaries
Illinois Atwood Record Herald News New! 01/04/2023 – Current Obituaries
Illinois Scott AFB Scott Flier: Scott Air Force Base  New! 01/05/2023 – Current Obituaries
Illinois Fairview Heights Tribune New! 01/05/2023 – Current Obituaries
Illinois Jerseyville Jersey County Journal New! 08/19/2021 – Current Obituaries
Illinois State-Wide County Illinois Business Journal New! 08/14/2014 – Current Obituaries
Illinois Tuscola Journal New! 01/04/2023 – Current Obituaries
Iowa Clarinda, Shenandoah Southwest Iowa Herald New! 01/25/2023 – Current Obituaries
Kansas Parsons Farm Talk New! 06/15/2022 – Current Obituaries
Louisiana Baton Rouge Daily Advocate 11/01/1869 – 11/01/1869 1 Newspaper Archives
Louisiana Baton Rouge State Times Advocate 06/13/1919 – 10/18/1966 23 Newspaper Archives
Louisiana Baton Rouge Weekly Advocate 05/09/1874 – 05/09/1874 1 Newspaper Archives
Michigan Ann Arbor Ann Arbor News 01/02/1950 – 12/31/1969 6184 Newspaper Archives
Michigan Bay City Bay City Times 01/01/1934 – 12/31/1949 5839 Newspaper Archives
Mississippi Monticello Monticello Gazette New! 06/21/1823 – 09/27/1823 8 Newspaper Archives
Missouri Ironton Mountain Echo New! 01/04/2023 – Current Obituaries
Missouri Ellington Reynolds County Courier New! 01/04/2023 – Current Obituaries
Missouri Piedmont Wayne County Journal-Banner New! 01/04/2023 – Current Obituaries
Montana Browning Browning chief New! 01/03/1941 – 08/14/1953 654 Newspaper Archives
Montana Browning Glacier County chief New! 01/06/1939 – 12/27/1940 103 Newspaper Archives
New Jersey Freehold Monmouth inquirer 01/05/1899 – 11/30/1922 1207 Newspaper Archives
New York Buffalo Buffalo News 01/02/1923 – 12/30/1939 5213 Newspaper Archives
New York Ghent Columbia Paper New! 03/25/2009 – Current Obituaries
Ohio Columbus Columbus Dispatch 01/01/2004 – 12/31/2018 5463 Newspaper Archives
Ohio Cincinnati Cincinnati Post 01/01/1931 – 12/31/1971 12819 Newspaper Archives
Rhode Island Pawtucket Pawtucket tribune New! 09/15/1891 – 09/14/1895 1222 Newspaper Archives
South Carolina Columbia Southern Indicator 01/27/1923 – 02/03/1923 2 Newspaper Archives
Texas Houston Copperfield Sun New! 03/27/2008 – 09/03/2009 Obituaries
Texas Houston Houston Chronicle: Blogs New! 08/02/2006 – 06/13/2016 Obituaries
Texas San Antonio San Antonio daily light New! 01/03/1887 – 06/28/1890 897 Newspaper Archives
Virginia Richmond Reformer New! 01/28/1905 – 01/28/1905 1 Newspaper Archives
West Virginia Martinsburg Pioneer Press 09/06/1890 – 01/16/1892 2 Newspaper Archives

Genealogy Tip: One of the ways to take advantage of the fact that GenealogyBank is always adding new content is to use a feature on the newspapers’ search results page that lets you search just on the content added since a certain time. With this feature, found along the left-hand side of the search results page, you can search only on the newest content – even newspaper articles GenealogyBank added within the past week!

GenealogyBank adds new content to its Historical Newspaper Archives constantly, so keep searching. And good luck with your family history research.

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