Newspapers give a contemporary view of the local events as they happen. In some cases such as in early New York, local newspapers are also the only record of an ancestor passing through an area. Here are the newspapers used in this family genealogy:
| State: |
City: |
Publication Name: |
Links |
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online |
Obituary Transcriptions at Find-A-Grave.com |
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| AL |
Birmingham |
Birmingham News |
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| AL |
Tuscaloosa |
Tuscaloosa News |
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| AR |
Elkins |
Morning News |
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| AR |
Fayetteville |
Northwest Arkansas Times |
|
| AZ |
Pheonix |
The Arizona Republic |
|
| AZ |
Safford |
Eastern Arizona Courier |
|
| AZ |
Safford |
Obituaries by McDougal's Caldwell Funeral Chapel |
|
| AZ |
Sedona |
Sedona Red Rock News |
|
| AZ |
Sun City |
Sunland Memorial Park, Digital Memorials |
|
| AZ |
Tucson |
The Mineralogical Record |
|
| CA |
Alameda |
East Bay Times |
|
| CA |
Contra Costa |
Contra Costa Times |
|
| CA |
Hemet |
Miller-Jones Mortuary |
|
| CA |
Los Angeles |
Los Angeles Herald |
|
| CA |
Los Angeles |
Los Angeles Times |
|
| CA |
Modesto |
Modesto Bee |
|
| CA |
Oakland |
Oakland Tribune |
|
| CA |
Sacramento |
Sacramento Union |
|
| CA |
San Bernardino |
The San Bernardino County Sun |
|
| CA |
San Diego |
The San Diego Union-Tribune |
|
| CA |
San Fernando Valley |
Valley Times |
|
| CA |
San Francisco |
San Francisco Chronicle |
|
| CA |
San Jose |
San Jose Mercury News |
|
| CA |
Van Nuys |
Valley News of Van Nuys |
|
| CA |
Van Nuys |
Van Nuys News |
|
| CO |
Colorado Springs |
Colorado Springs Gazette |
|
| CO |
Denver |
Denver Post |
|
| CO |
Loveland |
Reporter Herold |
|
| CO |
Pueblo |
The Pueblo Star Journal |
|
| CT |
Durham County |
Durham County Probate Record Book, Vol. 3 |
|
| CT |
East Haddam |
East Haddam Deeds, Vol. 1 |
|
| CT |
East Haddam, Colchester |
Colchester Probate Packet #914 |
|
| CT |
Hartford |
Columbian Register |
|
| CT |
Hartford |
Hartford Probate Packet #3321 |
|
| CT |
Hartford |
Hartford Probate Packet #3322 |
|
| CT |
Hartford |
Hartford Probate Packet #4662 |
|
| CT |
Hartford |
Hartford Probate Packet #4663 |
|
| CT |
Litchfield |
Litchfield Enquirer |
|
| CT |
Middlestown |
American Sentinel and Witness |
|
| CT |
Middletown |
Middletown Probate Packet #2358 |
|
| CT |
Norwich |
New London Probate Record Book, Vol 5-6 |
|
| CT |
various |
Hale Collection - Connecticut Newspapers |
|
| CT |
Windham |
Windham District Probate Record Book, Vol. 11 |
|
| CT |
Windham |
Windham District Probate Record Book, Vol. 13 |
|
| CT |
Windham |
Windham District Probate Record Book, Vol. 13 |
|
| CT |
Windham |
Windham District Probate Record Book, Vol. 17/18 |
|
| CT |
Windham |
Windham Probate Packet #2358 |
|
| DE |
Dover |
Delaware State News |
|
| DE |
Wilmington |
The Sunday Morning Star |
|
| FL |
Miami |
The Miami News |
|
| FL |
St. Augustine |
The St. Augustine Record |
|
| FL |
Tampa |
Tampa Bay Times |
|
| FL |
Tampa |
Tampa Tribune |
|
| FL |
Vero Beach |
Courant |
|
| IA |
Dubuque |
Dubuque Telegraph Herald |
|
| IA |
Jackson |
Jackson Sentinel |
|
| IA |
Jackson County |
Jackson County Probate Record Book |
|
| IA |
Spencer |
Spencer Reporter |
|
| IL |
Chicago |
Chicago Tribune Newspaper |
|
| IL |
Moline |
Moline Daily Dispatch |
|
| IL |
Ogden |
News-Gazette |
|
| IL |
Ogden |
Ogden Courier |
|
| IN |
Bluffton |
Bluffton Chronicle |
|
| IN |
Evansville |
Evansville Courier and Press |
|
| IN |
Fort Wayne |
The Weekly Sentinel |
|
| KS |
|
Unknown Kansas Newspapers |
|
| KS |
Alma |
Alma Enterprise |
|
| KS |
Fort Scott |
Fort Scott Monitor |
|
| KS |
Hutchinson |
The Hutchinson News |
|
| KS |
Kansas City |
The Kansas City Star |
|
| KS |
Lindsborg |
Lindsborg News Record |
|
| KS |
Manhattan |
The Manhatten Mercury |
|
| KS |
McPherson |
The McPherson Sentinal |
|
| KS |
Medicine Lodge |
Medicine Lodge Cresset |
|
| KS |
Medicine Lodge |
The Barber County Index |
|
| KS |
Mound City |
The Mound City Semi-Weekly Progress |
|
| KS |
Sedan |
Sedan Lance |
|
| KS |
Sedan |
Sedan Times-Star |
|
| KS |
Topeka |
The Topeka Capital Journal |
|
| KS |
Topeka |
The Topeka Daily Capital |
|
| KS |
various |
Kansas Obituary and Death Notice Collection |
|
| KS |
Wichita |
Kansas Wichita Eagle |
|
| LA |
Shreveport |
Shreveport Times |
|
| MA |
'Outside Boston' |
Boston Newspaper Extractions, 1708-1800 |
|
| MA |
Boston |
Boston Transcript |
|
| MA |
Boston |
Columbian Centinel |
|
| MA |
Boston |
Tributes.Com |
|
| MA |
Middlesex County |
Middlesex County Probate Records for Israel Heald (1738) |
|
| MA |
Middlesex County |
Middlesex County Probate Records for Oliver Heald (1755) |
|
| MA |
Plymouth |
Plymouth County Deeds |
|
| MA |
Plymouth Colony |
Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, Vol. 1 |
|
| MD |
Salisbury |
The Daily Times |
|
| MI |
Ann Arbor |
Ann Arbor Newspaper |
|
| MI |
Hartford |
Hartford Day Spring |
|
| MI |
Howell |
Livingston Republican |
|
| MI |
Northville |
Northville Review |
|
| MI |
Pinckney |
Pinckney Dispatch |
|
| MI |
Saint Clair |
St. Clair County Probate Records |
|
| MI |
Sturgis |
Sturgis Daily Journal |
|
| MO |
Springfield |
Springfield News-Leader |
|
| MT |
Helena |
Helena Independent |
|
| MT |
Helena |
Helena Weekly Herald |
|
| NL |
Holland |
Unidentified Dutch Newspaper |
|
| NM |
|
Desert Journal Online |
|
| NM |
Albuquerque |
Albuquerque Journal, Online Edition |
|
| NM |
Santa Fe |
The Santa Fe New Mexican |
|
| NY |
|
Constitution |
|
| NY |
|
Unknown New York Newspaper #28 |
|
| NY |
|
Unknown New York Newspaper #31 |
|
| NY |
Adams |
Jefferson County Journal |
|
| NY |
Albany |
Times Union (Albany, NY) |
|
| NY |
Altamont |
Fredendall Funeral Home: Obituaries Online |
|
| NY |
Amhest |
The Amherst News-Times |
|
| NY |
Amsterdam |
Daily Democrat and Evening Recorder |
|
| NY |
Attica |
The Attica News |
|
| NY |
Auburn |
Northern Christian Advocate |
|
| NY |
Batavia |
Batavia Republican Advocate |
|
| NY |
Batavia |
Batavian Progressive |
|
| NY |
Batavia |
Spirit Of The Times |
|
| NY |
Batavia |
The Daily News |
|
| NY |
Batavia |
The People's Press |
|
| NY |
Batavia |
The Times |
|
| NY |
Bath |
Steuben Farmers' Advocate |
|
| NY |
Bolivar |
Bolivar Breeze |
|
| NY |
Brookfield |
Brookfield Courier |
|
| NY |
Brooklyn |
Brooklyn Daily Eagle |
|
| NY |
Buffalo |
Buffalo Courier-Express |
|
| NY |
Buffalo |
Buffalo News |
|
| NY |
Buffalo |
The Buffalo Express |
|
| NY |
Caledonia |
The Caledonia Advertiser |
|
| NY |
Canandaigua |
Ontario Messenger and Repository |
|
| NY |
Canaseraga |
Canaseraga Times |
|
| NY |
Canisteo |
The Times of Canisteo Steuben County |
|
| NY |
Castile |
Castilian |
|
| NY |
Cazenovia |
Cazenovia Republican |
|
| NY |
Chittenango |
Chittenango-Bridgeport Times |
|
| NY |
Chittenengo |
Madison County Times |
|
| NY |
Cohocton |
Cohocton Valley Times |
|
| NY |
Cortland |
Cortland Democrat |
|
| NY |
Cortland |
Cortland News |
|
| NY |
Cortland |
Cortland Standard |
|
| NY |
Cortland Co. |
Obituaries at Cortland Co. Hist. Soc. |
|
| NY |
Cuba |
The Patriot and Free Press |
|
| NY |
Dansville |
The Dansville Express |
|
| NY |
Dansville |
Western New York Advertiser |
|
| NY |
De Ruyter |
De Ruyter Gleaner |
|
| NY |
De Ruyter |
The De Ruyter New Era |
|
| NY |
Elizabethtown |
The Elizabethtown Post and Gazette |
|
| NY |
Ellicottville |
Cattaraugus Republican |
|
| NY |
Fabius |
Fabius Area Newspapers, in Book 207 |
|
| NY |
Fabius |
Fabius Area Newspapers, in Book 208 |
|
| NY |
Fairport |
Monroe County Mail |
|
| NY |
Fayetteville |
Fayetteville Bulletin |
|
| NY |
Geneseo |
Livingston Republican |
|
| NY |
Hamburg |
Erie County Independent |
|
| NY |
Hamburg |
Hamburg Sun |
|
| NY |
Hamilton |
Democratic Republican |
|
| NY |
Homer |
The Republican |
|
| NY |
Hudson |
Columbia Republican |
|
| NY |
Hudson |
Hudson Evening Register |
|
| NY |
Hudson |
Weekly Star |
|
| NY |
Jamaica/Long Island |
Long Island Daily Press |
|
| NY |
Jamestown |
Jamestown Evening Journal |
|
| NY |
Jamestown |
Jamestown Post-Journal |
|
| NY |
Jefferson County |
Jefferson County Probate Records |
|
| NY |
Kingston |
The Kingston Daily Freeman |
|
| NY |
Las Vegas |
The Las Vegas Review-Journal |
|
| NY |
LeRoy |
The Le Roy Gazette |
|
| NY |
Little Valley |
Cattaraugus Republican |
|
| NY |
Livonia |
The Livonia Gazette |
|
| NY |
Lockport |
Lockport Daily Journal |
|
| NY |
Lowville |
Lowville Journal and Republican |
|
| NY |
Madison Co. |
Madison County Newspaper Abstracts |
|
| NY |
Marcellus |
Marcellus Observer |
|
| NY |
McGrawville |
The McGrawville Sentinel |
|
| NY |
Monroe |
Monroe County Mail |
|
| NY |
Mt. Vernon |
The Daily Argus |
|
| NY |
New York |
The Evening Post |
|
| NY |
New York City |
New York Times |
|
| NY |
New York City |
New York Tribune |
|
| NY |
North Tonawanda |
North Tonawanda Evening News |
|
| NY |
Nunda |
The Nunda News |
|
| NY |
Ogdensburg |
The Ogdensburg Journal |
|
| NY |
Peekskill |
Evening Star |
|
| NY |
Perry |
Perry New York Herald |
|
| NY |
Plattsburg |
Plattsburg Republican |
|
| NY |
Plattsburg |
Plattsburg Sentinel |
|
| NY |
Potsdam |
North Country Now (online edition) |
|
| NY |
Rochester |
Daily Democrat |
|
| NY |
Rochester |
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
|
| NY |
Rome |
Daily Sentinel |
|
| NY |
Rome |
Rome Semi-Weekly Citizen |
|
| NY |
Rome |
The Rome Sentinel |
|
| NY |
Sandy Creek |
Sandy Creek News |
|
| NY |
Schenectady |
Schenectady Gazette |
|
| NY |
Silver Springs |
Silver Springs Signal |
|
| NY |
St. Johnsville, Bay Shore |
St. Johnsville Enterprise and News |
|
| NY |
Syracuse |
Syracuse Herald-Journal |
|
| NY |
Syracuse |
Syracuse Journal |
|
| NY |
Syracuse |
The Daily Standard |
|
| NY |
Syracuse |
The Post-Standard |
|
| NY |
Ticonderoga |
Ticonderoga Sentinel |
|
| NY |
Troy |
The Times Record |
|
| NY |
Tully |
Tully Independent |
|
| NY |
Tully |
Tully Times |
|
| NY |
Utica |
Utica Daily Press |
|
| NY |
Vestal |
The Vestal News |
|
| NY |
Warsaw |
Western New Yorker |
|
| NY |
Warsaw |
Wyoming County Times |
|
| NY |
Watertown |
Watertown Daily Times |
|
| NY |
Watertown |
Watertown Herald |
|
| NY |
Watertown |
Watertown Re-Union |
|
| NY |
Watkins |
Watkins Express |
|
| NY |
Westmoreland |
Oneida County Surrogate Court, Will Books, Oneida, NY |
|
| NY |
Wyoming Co. |
Wyoming Reporter |
|
| OH |
Akron |
Akron Beacon Journal |
|
| OH |
Amherst |
North Amherst Reporter |
|
| OH |
Amherst |
The Amherst Free Press |
|
| OH |
Ashland |
Ashland Times Gazette |
|
| OH |
Cincinnati |
Cincinnati Daily Times |
|
| OH |
Cleveland |
Cleveland Leader |
|
| OH |
Cleveland |
The Cleveland Gazette |
|
| OH |
Cleveland |
The Plain Dealer |
|
| OH |
Columbus |
Crisis |
|
| OH |
Columbus |
Daily Ohio Statesman |
|
| OH |
Columbus |
The Columbus Dispatch |
|
| OH |
Elyria |
Dicken Funeral Home: Obituaries |
|
| OH |
Elyria |
The Elyria Chronicle Telegram |
|
| OH |
Highland |
The Highland Weekly News |
|
| OH |
Hillsboro |
The News-Herald |
|
| OH |
Ironton |
Ironton Register |
|
| OH |
Lawrence County |
Lawrence County Probate Records |
|
| OH |
Lorain |
Lorain Journal |
|
| OH |
Lorain County |
Unknown Ohio Newspapers |
|
| OH |
Mansfield |
News-Journal |
|
| OH |
Palestine |
Palestine Reveille |
|
| OH |
Salem |
The Daily News |
|
| OH |
Vermilion |
The Vermilion News |
|
| OH |
Wooster |
Wayne County Democrat |
|
| OK |
McAlester |
McAlster News-Capital |
|
| OK |
Oklahoma City |
The Daily Oklahoman |
|
| OK |
Tulsa |
Tulsa World |
|
| OR |
Albany |
Albany Democrat-Herald |
|
| OR |
Malheur |
Malheur Enterprise |
|
| OR |
Portland |
Oregonian |
|
| PA |
Allegheny County |
Allegheny County Probate Records for Electa Rowley Taylor (Estate #182) |
|
| PA |
Allegheny County |
Allegheny County Probate Records for M.H. Rowley (Vol. 51-52, Estate #232) |
|
| PA |
Allegheny County |
Registrar of Wills: Allegheny County, Volume 6 |
|
| PA |
Armstrong County |
Armstrong County Will Book, Vol. 2 |
|
| PA |
Armstrong County |
Armstrong County Will Book, Vol. 3 |
|
| PA |
Armstrong County |
Estate Records of Armstrong County |
|
| PA |
Armstrong County |
Harry M. Drake Obit Book |
|
| PA |
Armstrong County |
Register's Docket, Bond Book |
|
| PA |
Armstrong County |
Will Books of Armstrong County |
|
| PA |
Beaver |
Beaver County Times |
|
| PA |
Butler |
The Butler Citizen |
|
| PA |
Butler |
The Butler Eagle Newspaper |
|
| PA |
Franklin |
The News Harold |
|
| PA |
Freeport |
Freeport Journal |
|
| PA |
Kittanning |
Armstrong Democrat & Sentinel |
|
| PA |
Kittanning |
Daily Leader Times |
|
| PA |
New Bethlehem |
The Leader-Vindicator |
|
| PA |
New Castle |
New Castle News |
|
| PA |
Oil City |
The Derrick |
|
| PA |
Philadelphia |
Philadelphia Daily News |
|
| PA |
Philadelphia |
Philadelphia Inquirer |
|
| PA |
Pittsburg |
Triblive Obituaries |
|
| PA |
Pittsburgh |
Pittsburgh Tribune Review |
|
| PA |
Pittsburgh |
The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette |
|
| PA |
Tarentum |
Valley Daily News |
|
| PA |
Tarentum |
Valley News Dispatch |
|
| PA |
Washington |
Washington & Jefferson College Magazine |
|
| SC |
Myrtle Beach |
Sun News |
|
| SD |
Aberdeen |
Aberdeen Daily News |
|
| SD |
Aberdeen |
Memorials by Spitzer-Miller Funeral Home |
|
| SD |
Aberdeen |
Northwest Square Deal |
|
| SD |
Alcester |
Alcester Union and Hudsonsite |
|
| SD |
Beresford |
Memorials by Wass Funeral Home |
|
| SD |
Mitchell |
Daily Republic |
|
| SD |
Sious Falls |
The Argus Leader |
|
| TX |
Abilene |
Abilene Reporter News |
|
| TX |
Amarillo |
The Amarillo Globe-Times |
|
| TX |
Dallas |
Dallas News |
|
| TX |
Fort Worth |
Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
|
| TX |
San Angelo |
The San Angelo Standard-Times |
|
| TX |
San Antonio |
Express and News from San Antonio |
|
| TX |
Wamego |
The Wamego Reporter |
|
| UT |
Deseret |
Deseret News |
|
| va |
|
United States Obituaries: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia |
|
| va |
|
United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014 |
|
| VA |
Staunton |
Valley Virginian |
|
| VT |
Bennington |
Bennington Banner |
|
| VT |
Brandon |
Northern Visitor |
|
| VT |
Brattelboro |
Brattelboro Reformer |
|
| VT |
Brattleboro |
Vermont Phoenix |
|
| VT |
Orwell |
Orwell Township Deed Book 2 |
|
| VT |
Rutland |
Rutland County Probate Records, Vol. 7 |
|
| VT |
Rutland |
Rutland County Probate Records, Vol. 9 |
|
| WA |
Bellingham |
Bellingham Herald |
|
| WA |
Olympia |
Morning Olympian |
|
| WA |
Seattle |
Seattle Daily Times |
|
| WA |
Tacoma |
Tacoma Daily News |
|
| WI |
Bayfield |
The Bayfield County Press |
|
| WI |
Sparta |
Sparta Herald |
|
| WI |
West Salem |
Courier Life |
|
| WV |
Charleston |
Charleston Daily Mail |
|
| WV |
Charleston |
Charleston Gazette |
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