October Addition: GenealogyBank Just Added New Content from 27 Titles!

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 27 newspaper titles, increasing our content coverage from coast to coast.

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

  • A total of 21 titles from 14 states, plus 5 national titles and 1 from the Virgin Islands
  • 15 of the 27 titles added this month are newspapers added to GenealogyBank for the first time!
  • We’ve shown the newspaper issue date ranges in the list below so that you can determine if the newly added content is relevant to your personal genealogy research

Here is a list of the October 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
California Redding Courier-Free Press 04/02/1926 – 12/31/1936 12 Newspaper Archives
California Vallejo Open VallejoNew! 08/13/2023 – Current Obituaries
Connecticut Putnam Putnam patriot 01/08/1931 – 12/29/1949 985 Newspaper Archives
Georgia Atlanta Weekly Georgian 04/07/1914 – 06/30/1914 13 Newspaper Archives
Georgia Blackshear Blackshear TimesNew! 12/04/2006 – Current Obituaries
Louisiana Shreveport Shreveport-Bossier City AdvocateNew! 07/07/2023 – Current Obituaries
Maryland Baltimore Baltimore Patriot 01/01/1835 – 04/12/1838 858 Newspaper Archives
Maryland Baltimore Baltimore’s ChildNew! 08/29/2016 – Current Obituaries
Massachusetts Boston New-England Palladium 04/02/1822 – 10/25/1833 670 Newspaper Archives
Montana Ronan Ronan pioneer 01/02/1920 – 12/29/1938 868 Newspaper Archives
National National New Lines MagazineNew! 03/03/2023 – Current Obituaries
National National Orthodontic Products: Web Edition ArticlesNew! 10/11/2018 – Current Obituaries
National National Nutritional OutlookNew! 02/08/2022 – Current Obituaries
National National MuslimMattersNew! 03/23/2007 – Current Obituaries
National National Modern RetinaNew! 08/10/2023 – Current Obituaries
Nevada Humboldt, Pershing, Lander County Great Basin SunNew! 06/21/2022 – Current Obituaries
New York Watertown Watertown Daily Times 10/09/1874 – 04/04/1910 168 Newspaper Archives
New York Fulton Oswego County TodayNew! 10/28/2007 – Current Obituaries
North Carolina Charlotte Charlotte LedgerNew! 05/18/2021 – Current Obituaries
Pennsylvania Philadelphia Freemans Journal and Philadelphia Mercantile AdvertiserNew! 12/01/1808 – 12/23/1816 1457 Newspaper Archives
Rhode Island Providence News-democrat 01/20/1908 – 12/31/1908 290 Newspaper Archives
Rhode Island Pawtucket Pawtucket tribune 09/30/1890 – 09/14/1891 296 Newspaper Archives
Texas Beaumont Beaumont Journal 02/12/1961 – 02/12/1961 1 Newspaper Archives
Texas San Antonio San Antonio daily light 04/09/1894 – 08/31/1904 1183 Newspaper Archives
Texas Austin Texas ObserverNew! 01/22/1999 – Current Obituaries
Virgin Islands Charlotte Amalie Daily news of the Virgin IslandsNew! 01/02/1962 – 12/31/1963 561 Newspaper Archives
Virginia Norfolk Virginian-Pilot 01/01/1913 – 12/31/1979 19470 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!

A screenshot of GenealogyBank’s search results page showing the feature allowing you to search only on newly-added content

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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