Genealogy: Finding Your Ancestors Online: Newspapers

Available through Cornell or a local public library
Full-text and full-image articles for newspapers. Ongoing project. The New York Times, 1851-2001 -- The Wall Street Journal, 1889-1987 -- The Washington Post, 1877-1988.

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Contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. Especially good for regional newspapers.

Library of Congress digitization project of regional newspapers. Deepest coverage is late 19th century and early 20th century.

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Full text. Concentrating primarily on those papers that began publication before 1820.

Selected archive of full-page newspaper images.

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Indexes only.

An extensive collection of regional newspapers produced by Ancestry but not accessible through Ancestry. Available as a separate personal subscription on top of Ancestry. Cornell does not have a subscription.