Genealogy Bank

GenealogyBank has a large collection of newpapers and I have found the site very useful in my American research.

Modern Collections

- America's Obituaries 1977 to current
Obituaries contain helpful information such as names, dates, places of birth, death, marriage and family information. Over 27.1 million obituaries make this the most complete collection from the 20th and 21st centuries - includes over 1,000 U.S. newspapers. New content added daily!

- Social Security Death Index 1937 to current
Search over 81.5 million death records and get genealogical information crucial to your family research. Only SSDI site to be updated weekly!

Historical Collections

- Historical Newspapers 1690 - 1977
Quickly find names and keywords in over 115.8+ million articles, obituaries, marriage notices, birth announcements and other items published in more than 500,000 issues of over 2,400 historical U.S. newspapers. New content added monthly!

- Historical Books 1801 - 1900
A unique source that provides you with complete text of more than 11,700 books, pamphlets and printed items including: genealogies, biographies, funeral sermons, local histories, cards, charts and more - all published in the U.S. prior to 1900. New content added monthly!

- Historical Documents 1789 - 1980
Find military records, casualty lists, Revolutionary and Civil War pension requests, widow's claims, orphan petitions, land grants and much more including all of the American State Papers (1789-1838) and all genealogical content carefully selected from the U.S. Serial Set (1817-1980). More than 138,600 reports, lists and documents. Now digitizing December 1940. New content added monthly!

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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Chronicling America allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1897-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

View newspaper pages from 1897 to 1910 from the following states: California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia.

Find information about newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present in the Chronicling America Directory.

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The Olden Times

TheOldenTimes.com:

Historic Newspapers Online - Always FREE!

18th- through Early 20th-century Newspapers from the U. S., England, Scotland, Ireland & Australia!

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Free New Zealand resource: Papers Past

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast

Papers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1840 to 1915 and includes publications from all regions of New Zealand.

Now, 23 of the 44 newspapers and periodicals are searchable.

If you have NZ connections in the above time period, look and see if there are any printed records.

In the 19th century, NZ newspapers had a wire service, so it's not unusual to find stories about ancestors printed by publications from different geographical regions of the country.

There are advanced options that allow you to search particular newspapers or date ranges, as well as ignore advertisements.

Given that past NZ governments didn't bother to retain census records, here is one resource that just might enable you to locate that elusive ancestor.