Locating Newspapers Online and Offline

Library of Congress: Chronicling America

Digital newspapers for 1880-1910 from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/search_fulltext_advanced.html

Library of Congress -- Chronicling of America

Find information about newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present in the Chronicling of America Directory. Enter a state and county and pull up a list of newspapers for that area. Click on the holdings link to see where the newspapers are held in original and microfilm versions.

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/search_directory_advanced.html

Newspaper Abstracts

This volunteer project includes nearly 52,000 pages of abstracts and extracts from historical newspapers, with an emphasis on items of interest to genealogists. The real value of the site is that it lists by state which newspapers are digitized at each of the major subscription websites. http://www.newspaperabstracts.com

Online Newspapers

Directory by state of current newspaper websites.

http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/usstate/usatable.htm

Old Newspapers Archives by State

Links to each state's old newspaper archive project.

http://www.obituarieshelp.org/old_newspapers_archives_state.html