May 10, 2023 If you are researching your ancestry from Vermont, you will want to use GenealogyBank’s online VT newspaper archives: 195 titles to help you search your family history in the “Green Mountain State,” providing coverage from 1781 to Today. There are millions of articles and records in our online Vermont newspaper archives!
Dig deep into our online archives and search for articles about your ancestors from Vermont in these newspapers. Our VT 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 Vermont Newspaper Archives (1781 – 2006)
Search Vermont Obituaries (1837 – Today)
Here is the complete list of Vermont 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 VT newspaper titles are listed alphabetically by city.
| City | Title | Years of Coverage | Issues Available | Collection |
| Barre | Times Argus | 03/07/2000 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Barre | Barre daily times | 05/01/1903 – 12/30/1922 | 5777 | Newspaper Archives |
| Barre | Barre evening enterprise | 04/14/1898 – 05/18/1898 | 29 | Newspaper Archives |
| Barre | Barre evening telegram | 05/19/1898 – 12/31/1902 | 1325 | Newspaper Archives |
| Barre | Cronaca sovversiva | 06/06/1903 – 05/01/1919 | 771 | Newspaper Archives |
| Barton | Orleans County monitor | 01/08/1872 – 12/27/1922 | 2638 | Newspaper Archives |
| Battleboro | Windham County reformer | 05/30/1879 – 07/24/1896 | 113 | Newspaper Archives |
| Battleboro | Windham County reformer | 10/25/1901 – 12/28/1906 | 264 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bellows Falls | Bellows Falls Gazette | 12/01/1838 – 05/30/1851 | 531 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bellows Falls | Vermont Intelligencer | 01/01/1817 – 12/30/1822 | 306 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bellows Falls | Bellows Falls times | 10/01/1856 – 05/21/1903 | 1269 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bellows Falls | Vermont Chronicle | 04/14/1826 – 10/03/1828 | 130 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | Bennington Banner | 11/18/1999 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Bennington | Bennington Banner | 02/27/1841 – 12/31/1885 | 1936 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | Bennington News-Letter | 03/25/1811 – 08/14/1815 | 147 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | Epitome of the World | 02/10/1807 – 10/12/1807 | 34 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | Green-Mountain Farmer | 04/17/1809 – 06/10/1816 | 338 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | Ploughman; or, Republican Federalist | 07/27/1801 – 02/01/1802 | 21 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | Tablet of the Times | 01/05/1797 – 08/31/1797 | 35 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | Vermont Gazette | 06/05/1783 – 02/16/1847 | 2674 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | Vermont Gazette | 12/14/1872 – 12/22/1876 | 200 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | Vermont Gazette | 03/17/1847 – 12/27/1848 | 70 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | Vermont Gazette | 04/27/1847 – 10/10/1850 | 167 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | World | 10/19/1807 – 03/27/1809 | 70 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | Bennington banner and reformer | 01/05/1888 – 12/31/1903 | 564 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | Bennington daily banner | 08/10/1877 – 08/21/1877 | 10 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | Bennington evening banner | 12/08/1903 – 12/30/1922 | 5788 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bennington | Daily banner | 08/18/1891 – 08/18/1891 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bradford | Bradford opinion | 06/06/1874 – 05/28/1881 | 162 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bradford | National opinion | 01/05/1866 – 05/30/1874 | 349 | Newspaper Archives |
| Bradford | United opinion | 09/15/1882 – 12/29/1922 | 563 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brandon | Northern Visitor | 01/01/1858 – 03/07/1861 | 159 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brandon | Rutland and Addison County Whig | 03/12/1840 – 08/20/1840 | 3 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brandon | Vermont telegraph | 01/07/1836 – 10/04/1843 | 395 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brattleboro | Brattleboro Reformer | 06/07/2000 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Brattleboro | Brattleboro Messenger | 12/24/1821 – 08/29/1834 | 376 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brattleboro | American Yeoman | 02/04/1817 – 01/27/1818 | 52 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brattleboro | Federal Galaxy | 01/06/1797 – 01/17/1803 | 280 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brattleboro | Flail | 07/14/1840 – 09/01/1840 | 2 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brattleboro | Independent Inquirer | 09/14/1833 – 09/06/1834 | 52 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brattleboro | Reporter | 02/21/1803 – 12/05/1820 | 560 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brattleboro | Semi-weekly Eagle | 08/10/1847 – 12/09/1852 | 550 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brattleboro | Vermont Phoenix | 10/24/1834 – 08/25/1905 | 1566 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brattleboro | Vermont Record and Farmer | 01/01/1868 – 12/29/1876 | 474 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brattleboro | Brattleboro daily reformer | 03/03/1913 – 12/30/1922 | 3016 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brattleboro | Brattleboro reformer | 01/04/1907 – 12/29/1911 | 229 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brattleboro | Semi-weekly Windham County reformer | 07/02/1901 – 10/18/1901 | 32 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brattleboro | Vermont phonix | 01/22/1836 – 12/22/1922 | 3155 | Newspaper Archives |
| Brattleboro | Windham County Democrat | 07/21/1837 – 10/12/1853 | 21 | Newspaper Archives |
| Burlington | American Repertory | 09/28/1821 – 03/25/1823 | 80 | Newspaper Archives |
| Burlington | Burlington Gazette | 09/09/1814 – 01/28/1819 | 127 | Newspaper Archives |
| Burlington | Burlington Mercury | 06/03/1796 – 03/24/1797 | 21 | Newspaper Archives |
| Burlington | Vermont Centinel | 03/19/1801 – 07/12/1850 | 1007 | Newspaper Archives |
| Burlington | Voice of the People | 08/29/1866 – 08/29/1866 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Burlington | Burlington Times | 10/22/1864 – 02/02/1865 | 2 | Newspaper Archives |
| Burlington | Seven Days | 01/25/2013 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Burlington | Le Patriote canadien | 08/07/1839 – 02/05/1840 | 24 | Newspaper Archives |
| Burlington | Burlington free press | 01/08/1836 – 12/30/1920 | 4005 | Newspaper Archives |
| Burlington | Kids VT | 02/12/2016 – 02/12/2016 | – | Obituaries |
| Chelsea | Vermont Advocate | 01/12/1830 – 07/30/1834 | 65 | Newspaper Archives |
| Chester | Chester Telegraph | 03/29/2012 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Chester | Green Mountain Palladium | 06/22/1807 – 04/12/1808 | 24 | Newspaper Archives |
| Chester | Message for the Week | 03/02/2016 – 04/17/2018 | – | Obituaries |
| Colchester | Colchester Sun | 01/27/2011 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| County | VTDigger.org | 08/16/2010 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| County | Vermontbiz.com | 01/22/2008 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| County | Vermont Business Magazine | 04/30/2007 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Danville | North Star | 01/08/1807 – 01/26/1889 | 1199 | Newspaper Archives |
| Essex Junction | Essex Reporter | 12/30/2010 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Fair Haven | Farmer’s Library. or, Fairhaven Telegraphe | 08/17/1795 – 04/03/1798 | 21 | Newspaper Archives |
| Granville | World’s Paper | 07/03/1857 – 06/01/1866 | 17 | Newspaper Archives |
| Hyde Park | Lamoille news | 04/18/1877 – 12/29/1880 | 94 | Newspaper Archives |
| Hyde Park | Lamoille newsdealer | 11/30/1860 – 12/30/1874 | 718 | Newspaper Archives |
| Irasburg | Orleans independent standard | 01/04/1856 – 12/13/1870 | 738 | Newspaper Archives |
| Island Pond | Essex County herald | 01/11/1873 – 12/21/1922 | 2295 | Newspaper Archives |
| Manchester | Manchester Journal | 04/06/2007 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Manchester | Vermont Express | 08/30/1836 – 08/30/1836 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Manchester | Manchester journal | 05/28/1861 – 12/28/1922 | 3111 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | Addison County Independent | 12/27/2006 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Middlebury | Green Mountain Outlook | 08/05/2011 – 01/21/2016 | – | Obituaries |
| Middlebury | Middlebury Campus, The: Middlebury College | 01/16/2002 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Middlebury | New Market Press | 08/03/2011 – 01/21/2016 | – | Obituaries |
| Middlebury | Valley Voice | 02/28/2006 – 05/05/2018 | – | Obituaries |
| Middlebury | Vermont Eagle | 08/03/2011 – 04/01/2018 | – | Obituaries |
| Middlebury | Vermont Farmer, and Northern Silk-Grower | 11/19/1839 – 10/14/1840 | 5 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | Christian Herald | 09/25/1816 – 10/30/1816 | 6 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | Christian Messenger | 11/06/1816 – 11/23/1819 | 150 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | Columbian Patriot | 09/01/1813 – 08/23/1815 | 104 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | Middlebury Mercury | 12/16/1801 – 07/04/1810 | 437 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | National Standard | 08/30/1815 – 12/26/1820 | 235 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | Religious Reporter | 04/08/1820 – 09/30/1820 | 26 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | Vermont Mirror | 09/30/1812 – 09/18/1816 | 209 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | Middlebury galaxy | 01/11/1848 – 01/08/1850 | 72 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | Middlebury people’s press | 06/01/1841 – 11/15/1843 | 129 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | Middlebury register | 01/01/1886 – 12/29/1922 | 1908 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | Middlebury register and Addison County journal | 01/05/1883 – 12/25/1885 | 156 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | Northern galaxy | 02/07/1844 – 01/04/1848 | 205 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | Northern galaxy, and Middlebury people’s press | 11/22/1843 – 01/31/1844 | 11 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | People’s press, and Addison County Democrat | 07/03/1838 – 05/25/1841 | 7 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | People’s press, and anti-masonic Democrat | 09/12/1837 – 09/12/1837 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Middlebury | Middlebury register | 01/15/1850 – 12/29/1882 | 1358 | Newspaper Archives |
| Milton | Milton Independent | 04/12/2007 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Montpelier | Christian Messenger | 01/05/1848 – 07/31/1879 | 1138 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Argus and Patriot | 07/09/1863 – 12/30/1908 | 1781 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Christian Repository | 07/24/1851 – 05/21/1870 | 217 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Freemen’s Press | 08/25/1809 – 08/27/1812 | 36 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Harrisonian | 03/10/1840 – 07/01/1840 | 14 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | State Journal | 10/25/1832 – 10/25/1832 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Universalist Watchman and Christian Repository | 12/14/1839 – 07/11/1846 | 248 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Universalist Watchman, Embracing the Impartialist and Christian Repository | 06/30/1838 – 06/22/1839 | 52 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Vermont Precursor | 11/22/1806 – 11/13/1807 | 52 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Watchman | 11/20/1807 – 12/31/1873 | 2651 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Daily Green Mountain freeman | 04/15/1861 – 12/31/1863 | 815 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Green-Mountain freeman | 01/20/1844 – 03/05/1884 | 1792 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | State Journal | 01/05/1836 – 11/29/1836 | 48 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Vermont freeman | 12/10/1842 – 12/10/1842 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Vermont watchman and State journal | 12/06/1836 – 12/15/1910 | 3501 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Voice of freedom | 01/19/1839 – 08/30/1848 | 312 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Vermont Patriot and State Gazette | 01/17/1826 – 04/01/1839 | 655 | Newspaper Archives |
| Montpelier | Vermont Chronicle | 01/02/1875 – 12/30/1876 | 105 | Newspaper Archives |
| Morrisville | News and citizen | 12/22/1881 – 12/27/1922 | 1248 | Newspaper Archives |
| Newport | Newport Daily Express | 07/24/2008 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Northfield | Northfield News | 09/25/2008 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Northfield | Star of Vermont and Farmer’s Register | 10/21/1854 – 10/20/1855 | 52 | Newspaper Archives |
| Northfield | Vermont Christian Messenger | 04/06/1853 – 11/05/1859 | 235 | Newspaper Archives |
| Peacham | Green Mountain Patriot | 02/23/1798 – 01/27/1810 | 488 | Newspaper Archives |
| Poultney | Poultney Gazette | 11/05/1822 – 12/31/1823 | 48 | Newspaper Archives |
| Putney | Argus | 03/16/1797 – 02/26/1799 | 59 | Newspaper Archives |
| Putney | Argus | 10/01/1885 – 10/02/1886 | 308 | Newspaper Archives |
| Randolph | Vermont Luminary, or, Orange Gazette, Masonic Reformer, and Christian Watchman | 04/01/1829 – 04/01/1829 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Randolph | Weekly Wanderer | 01/24/1801 – 04/06/1810 | 407 | Newspaper Archives |
| Randolph | Herald and news | 10/04/1888 – 09/29/1910 | 1145 | Newspaper Archives |
| Royalton | Vermont Advocate and White River Advertiser | 11/21/1827 – 03/11/1829 | 2 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rutland | Rutland Herald | 10/01/1999 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| Rutland | Farmers’ Library | 04/01/1793 – 11/29/1794 | 87 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rutland | Herald of Vermont | 06/25/1792 – 09/10/1792 | 12 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rutland | Rutland Herald | 12/08/1794 – 12/28/1876 | 3271 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rutland | Vermont Courier | 07/25/1808 – 05/30/1810 | 96 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rutland | Vermont Mercury | 03/29/1802 – 03/12/1804 | 67 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rutland | Rutland County herald | 01/05/1836 – 11/30/1876 | 1613 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rutland | Rutland Daily Globe | 05/01/1873 – 08/31/1877 | 1240 | Newspaper Archives |
| Rutland | Rutland weekly globe | 05/23/1873 – 12/15/1876 | 13 | Newspaper Archives |
| Saint Albans | Vermont daily transcript | 05/13/1868 – 05/21/1869 | 288 | Newspaper Archives |
| Saint Albans | Vermont transcript | 03/18/1864 – 08/14/1868 | 206 | Newspaper Archives |
| Saint Albans | Avenir National | 01/18/1872 – 11/28/1872 | 45 | Newspaper Archives |
| South Londonderry | Londonderry sifter | 01/04/1884 – 10/13/1921 | 844 | Newspaper Archives |
| Springfield | Springfield Reporter | 01/06/2016 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| St. Albans | St. Albans Messenger | 12/04/2006 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| St. Albans | American Repertory | 05/15/1823 – 12/26/1833 | 444 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Albans | Champlain Reporter | 05/11/1809 – 06/28/1810 | 3 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Albans | Franklin County Advertiser | 07/26/1810 – 10/29/1810 | 5 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Albans | St. Albans Advertiser | 12/19/1873 – 07/05/1878 | 139 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Albans | St. Albans Adviser | 03/10/1808 – 01/28/1809 | 42 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Albans | St. Albans Daily Messenger | 04/24/1861 – 04/29/2006 | 28847 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Albans | St. Albans Messenger | 01/25/1838 – 10/12/1933 | 2562 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Albans | St. Albans Transcript | 03/22/1873 – 07/30/1874 | 51 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Albans | Vermont State Paper | 06/23/1835 – 04/26/1836 | 43 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Johnsbury | Caledonian-Record | 01/05/2011 – Current | – | Obituaries |
| St. Johnsbury | Farmer’s Herald | 07/15/1828 – 03/02/1831 | 6 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Johnsbury | Vermont Farmer | 10/31/1873 – 08/25/1876 | 2 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Johnsbury | Caledonian | 08/08/1837 – 09/18/1918 | 4140 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Johnsbury | Caledonian-Record | 10/13/1917 – 12/31/1926 | 2312 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Johnsbury | St. Johnsbury Republican | 08/07/1907 – 08/07/1907 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Johnsbury | Caledonian | 08/08/1837 – 11/03/1920 | 4233 | Newspaper Archives |
| St. Johnsbury | Caledonian-Record | 09/03/1918 – 12/30/1922 | 1317 | Newspaper Archives |
| Swanton | Loco foco | 08/22/1839 – 08/22/1839 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Swanton | North American | 04/10/1839 – 08/12/1841 | 102 | Newspaper Archives |
| Vergennes | Vergennes Gazette and Vermont and New-York Advertiser | 08/30/1798 – 10/08/1801 | 155 | Newspaper Archives |
| Vergennes | Union Canadienne et la Charivari | 04/23/1869 – 04/23/1869 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Westminster | Vermont Gazette or Green-Mountain Post-Boy | 04/02/1781 – 09/27/1781 | 3 | Newspaper Archives |
| Windsor | Morning Ray, or, Impartial Oracle | 11/15/1791 – 09/25/1792 | 25 | Newspaper Archives |
| Windsor | Post-Boy | 01/01/1805 – 03/31/1807 | 112 | Newspaper Archives |
| Windsor | Spooner’s Vermont Journal | 08/07/1783 – 11/04/1826 | 2135 | Newspaper Archives |
| Windsor | Valley Farmer | 12/28/1867 – 01/11/1868 | 3 | Newspaper Archives |
| Windsor | Vermont Farmer | 01/01/1836 – 12/01/1836 | 11 | Newspaper Archives |
| Windsor | Vermont Journal | 06/20/1844 – 10/20/1877 | 647 | Newspaper Archives |
| Windsor | Vermont Republican | 01/02/1809 – 10/09/1834 | 965 | Newspaper Archives |
| Windsor | Washingtonian | 07/23/1810 – 01/22/1816 | 282 | Newspaper Archives |
| Windsor | Vermont Farmer | 12/09/1870 – 05/18/1877 | 236 | Newspaper Archives |
| Windsor | Vermont Chronicle | 10/10/1828 – 12/26/1874 | 2401 | Newspaper Archives |
| Woodstock | Coon Hunter | 10/12/1844 – 10/12/1844 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Woodstock | Gospel Banner | 10/06/1827 – 10/06/1827 | 1 | Newspaper Archives |
| Woodstock | Green Mountain Farmer | 03/14/1856 – 02/27/1857 | 48 | Newspaper Archives |
| Woodstock | Pulse of the People | 07/25/1840 – 10/24/1840 | 11 | Newspaper Archives |
| Woodstock | Vermont Mercury | 04/06/1837 – 02/08/1855 | 669 | Newspaper Archives |
| Woodstock | Whig Advocate | 06/22/1842 – 09/19/1842 | 12 | Newspaper Archives |
| Woodstock | Woodstock Observer | 01/11/1820 – 06/05/1832 | 630 | Newspaper Archives |
| Woodstock | Working-man’s Gazette | 09/23/1830 – 08/23/1831 | 48 | Newspaper Archives |
| Woodstock | Vermont Courier and Farmer’s, Manufacturer’s and Mechanic’s Advocate | 09/02/1831 – 01/02/1835 | 173 | Newspaper Archives |
| Woodstock | Spirit of the age | 05/01/1845 – 07/26/1913 | 1790 | Newspaper Archives |
| Woodstock | Spirit of the age | 05/08/1840 – 04/28/1843 | 154 | Newspaper Archives |
| Woodstock | Woodstock age | 05/16/1844 – 04/24/1845 | 49 | Newspaper Archives |
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