Tasmania Newspapers


 * Tasmanian Newspapers & Journals, links to several digitized sources
 * TROVE
 * More than 40 historical Tasmanian newspaper titles are free online on Trove, and more are being added.​​


 * 1600-- - Historic newspapers from 1​600 at Libraries Tasmania, images.
 * 1816-1900+ - Whitfield Index at Libraries Tasmania, images of index.
 * A selective index of personal names found in Tasmanian colonial newspapers, 1816-1900. There are a few entries for the years after 1900. The main emphasis is on the names of members of early settler and eminent families, though the scope is sometimes wider. The main data recorded are for births, deaths and marriages, wills and bequests, land grants and property sales. There is a small subsection of topical and geographic subject entries.


 * 1816 onward - Hobart Town Gazette 1816 Onwards An index to people listed in some issues of The Hobart Town Gazette, includes type of listing and date and page number of publication
 * 1835-1840 - Births, Deaths and Marriages Index 1835 - 1840, listed in the newspaper Cornwall Chronicle, index.
 * 1842 - Hawker's & Carrier's Licences. Tasmania.1842, published in the Hobart Town Gazette
 * 1854-1962 - Tasmania, Australia, Index to Marriage Notices in The Mercury, 1854-1962 - at Ancestry, Index ($)
 * 1854-1920 - Tasmania, Australia, Index to Death Notices in The Mercury, 1854-1930 - at Ancestry Index ($)
 * 1877-1921 - Tasmanian Ma​il 1877-1921 at Libraries Tasmania, images.
 * 1901-1935 - Weekly cou​rier 1901-1935​ at Libraries Tasmania, images.
 * 1920s-1950s - Wayn index
 * Digitised version of a handwritten card index to colonial Tasmanian Government records and colonial newspapers compiled by Amelia Lucy Wayn during the period from the 1920s to 1940s. They were then added to by staff employed in the Archives Office in the 1950s.

Government and Police Gazettes

 * 1907-1919 - Tasmania Government Gazettes at FindMyPast ($), index.
 * 1871-1900 - Tasmania Police Gazettes at FindMyPast ($), index.
 * 1884-1933 - Tasmania, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1884-1933 at Ancestry ($), index and images.
 * 1966-1994 - Tasmanian newspaper index. 1966-1994 at Libraries Tasmania, index.
 * The Tasmanian Index provides references to articles in the three metropolitan Tasmanian newspapers: the Mercury, the Examiner and the Advocate, and to many other Tasmanian journals and regional newspapers. Most articles are indexed, but there are some exclusions (including routine sport reports and results, and reports of court proceedings). The Index also includes references to the contents of a few important early Tasmanian publications such as John West's History of Tasmania (1852) and the Cyclopedia of Tasmania (1900 and 1931).

Australia

 * Australia Newspapers at MyHeritage, ($), index
 * Australia Newspaper Vital Notices, 1851-1997 at Ancestry, ($), index, incomplete.
 * Trove digitized newspapers
 * Australian Lutheran at FindMyPast, ($), index.