Fresno California East Family History Center/Historical Newspapers

Newspapers are excellent sources of family history. The researcher can use newspapers to find obituaries, announcements of births, marriages or anniversaries, legal notices, letters to the editor, and social activities.

Newspaper Search Sites

 * 1) Ancestry - (subscription site - Free at the FHC via the portal)
 * 2) Newspaper Archive - (subscription newspaper site - Free at FHC via the portal)
 * 3) Genealogy Bank - (subscription newspaper site)
 * 4) Newspapers.com - a subscription newspaper site owned by Ancestry)
 * 5) Fold3 - (subscription site - Free at FHC via the portal)
 * 6) World Vital Records - (subscription site - Free at FHC via the portal)
 * 7) Paper of Record - (a subscription newspaper site)
 * 8) Elephind - Searches various free newspaper sites
 * 9) Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers - from the Library of Congress
 * 10) Google News Archive
 * 11) The Olden Times - Historic Newspapers Online

Help Finding Historical Newspapers
Finding Obituaries is a list of on-line resources for locating obituaries.
 * 1) Historical Newspapers Online
 * 2) Online Historical Newspapers
 * 3) Wikipedia List of Online Newspaper Archives - an international list
 * 4) International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON)
 * 5) Elephind - Searches various free newspaper sites
 * 6) Europeana
 * 7) FamilySearch Wiki - - click on map or enter state or country in search box
 * 8) *Online Genealogy Records by Location - FamilySearch Wiki page
 * 9) Cyndi's List - Newspapers - Also check under state or country topics
 * 10) Google Search - Use keywords “historical newspapers” and your location of research
 * 11) U.S. Newspaper Program - a cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve newspapers on microfilm

Newspaper "How To" Articles

 * Ancestor Hunt's Newspapers page

Make sure you're looking for the records in the right place by checking maps of the time period. Also check the "Handybook for Genealogists" or "Redbook" for state or county line boundary changes. You can find some helpful links on our Geographic Resources page."