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AllYouCanRead, a massive media directory of 22,800 local and international magazines and newspapers from all over the world. Over 200 countries are represented at AllYouCanRead.com.

Tom Pearson of the Missouri State Genealogical Society says: "Why would a genealogist be interested in this website? Because it lists currently-published newspapers in every state by: 1. City 2. County 3. and Topic: Agricultural Newspapers Christian Newspapers Alternative Newsweekly Newspapers Jewish Newspapers Business Newspapers Shopping Newspapers College Newspapers African American Newspapers Top Newspapers Hispanic Newspapers Ethnic Community Newspapers It also lists currently published magazines by category."

"The California Digital Newspaper Collection offers over 200,000 pages of California newspapers spanning the years 1849-191l: the Alta California, 1849-1891; the San Francisco Call, 1893-1910; the Amador Ledger, 1900-1911; the Imperial Valley Press, 1901-1911; the Sacramento Record-Union, 1859-1890; and the Los Angeles Herald, 1905-1907. Additional years are forthcoming, as are other early California newspapers: the Californian; the California Star; the California Star and Californian; the Sacramento Transcript; the Placer Times; and the Pacific Rural Press."

"Welcome to Chronicling America, enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)."

"Have you ever wished you could find links to all the online historical newspapers in one place? A place where they were listed by county and city so you could find the newspapers your ancestors read? This is the purpose of the Online Historical Newspapers Website. It is meant to be used as an aid to genealogists, historians, and other researchers."

Pennsylvania Civil War Era Collection contain all the words, photographs, and advertisements from selected newspapers published during the pivotal years before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War. Newspapers played a prominent role in the conflict. They helped mobilize public opinion for, or against, the war, relayed battlefield developments to their readers, and documented political life on the homefront. Beyond military or political concerns there is much on cultural topics including travel, arts and leisure, sports and contests, and local social events.

Alphabetical listing of newspapers in the Google News Archive. Lists how many issues and date range; does not list location.

"This newspaper holds so much history and information and is a valuable resource for our community. Having it available online makes it more easily accessible for everyone," Cr Natoli said. The Nambour Chronicle was the local newspaper for the Sunshine Coast from 1903 until 1980 when the Sunshine Coast Daily was born. The Chronicle from that period no longer exists in hard copy, but its microfilm version is a valuable research resource for the history, culture and development of the region. "Unfortunately, constant usage has damaged the microfilm copies of the Chronicle, which are held in Maroochy and Caloundra libraries. It was a decision between maintaining the old films or digitising,'' Cr Natoli said.

Contains issues of historic papers published in Milledgeville, one-time capital of Georgia, from 1808-1922. A reference for Georgia politics, history, laws, slave data. The Milledgeville Historic Newspaper database is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia as part of Georgia HomePLACE. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

A way to obtain copies of 19th century newspapers for Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan. Also includes: Death Notice Index, Probate Notice Index, and Marriage Notice Index.

This site presents selected materials drawn from a variety of Illinois newspapers published during the American Civil War (1861-1865). It does not present individual publications in total, including all stories and advertisements. Rather, project staff have selected news items shedding particular light on Illinois troops' activities during the war, major engagements regardless of Illinois involvement, and a variety of major themes that historians of this period discuss in their work. These themes include Economic Development, Law and Society, Native American Relations, Political Development, Race and Ethnicity, Settlement and Immigration, and Women and Gender. Materials pertaining to Illinois soldiers' experiences and other military engagements are featured under the theme "Soldiers' Lives."

Nearly 7.5 million old New York newspapers with information covering the world, incredible ancient gossip and social, lots of names - not just for New York.

Worldwide Obituary locator and Newspaper Directory