Subject Guides: Family History/Genealogy: Newspapers

Family & Local History Librarian Joseph B. Everett, MLS, AG

Joe Everett

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2246 HBLL
Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84062

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Subjects: Family and Local History

Free Access to The New York Times!

The BYU Library subscribes to The New York Times online edition so you can have daily access to national and international news. Follow these simple instructions to create an account at nytimes.com.

BYU News

The Daily Universe
BYU student newspaper
University Communications
The Daily Universe Archives (to 2003)
BYU Student Newspapers (from 1920)

Core News Sources

Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
860+ full-text newspapers, plus television and radio news transcripts.
Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to 700+ U.S. and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Global news and business information service including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires, The Wall Street Journal, and thousands of other national and international newspapers in multiple languages.
No Systematic Downloading. Factiva may not be used for data mining, text mining, or trend analysis functions.
Gale Newsstand This link opens in a new window
Full-text newspapers. Search by headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields.

U.S. and Canada

Current News Sources

Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. This current database begins its coverage in 1990.
Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This ProQuest database provides full text of more than 700 U.S. and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires. Years of coverage vary by title.
Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
US Hispanic Newsstream (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
US Hispanic Newsstream offers access to the largest collection of leading Hispanic newspapers, news wires, websites and blogs in full text from US publishers in both Spanish and English.
Gale Newsstand This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. The database offers a one-stop source for current news and searchable archives.
New York Times This link opens in a new window
Current access to the New York Times.

18th, 19th, 20th-Century Newspapers

19th Century U.S. Newspaper Digital Archive (Gale) This link opens in a new window Approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century United States. This database has full-text searching capability, and it displays images from numerous newspapers from urban and rural areas.
African American Newspapers This link opens in a new window African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. The collection also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience. From History Commons, formerly Accessible Archives.
Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1986) This link opens in a new window A ProQuest Historical Newspaper, the Chicago Tribune (1849-1986) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Christian Science Monitor (1908 - 1996) This link opens in a new window A ProQuest Historical Newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor (1908-1996) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
CRL's U.S. Ethnic Newspapers Database This link opens in a new window CRL's U.S. Ethnic Newspapers Database provides access to The Center for Research Libraries' collection of more than 2,000 titles of periodicals and newspapers published by various ethnic groups in North America and held by the Center.

CRL's U.S. Ethnic Newspapers Database CRL's U.S. Ethnic Newspapers Database provides access to The Center for Research Libraries' collection of more than 2,000 titles of periodicals and newspapers published by various ethnic groups in North America and held by the Center.

HARPWEEK This link opens in a new window Harper’s Weekly newspaper covered the Civil War Era, 1857-1871. Prolific Latter-day Saint and Civil War subject content. Fully indexed, web access. Original displayed in image format.
Hartford Courant (1764 - 1984) This link opens in a new window A ProQuest Historical Newspaper, the Hartford Courant (1764 - 1984) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 (NewsBank) This link opens in a new window The single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries
Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Search the archives of historical newspapers from back to 1786.
Historical Newspapers from History Commons This link opens in a new window The Virginia Gazette: 1736 - 1780; African American Newspapers: The 19th Century; The Liberator 1831-1865; The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800; South Carolina Newspapers: 1732 - 1780. Formerly Accessible Archives.
Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1986) This link opens in a new window A ProQuest Historical Newspaper, the Los Angeles Times (1881-1986) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
NewspaperARCHIVE This link opens in a new window NewspaperARCHIVE.com is the world's largest online newspaper archive. Featuring billions of articles from historical newspapers around the U.S. and the world, NewspaperARCHIVE makes exploring history and genealogy easy and fun. Discover fascinating news in archived newspapers hundreds of years old - including obituaries, birth announcements, sports articles, comics, and more – to fill in the life stories you are interested in. And share those stories with others through our community at OurNewspaperARCHIVE. All of our historical newspapers are full-page and fully searchable - try exploring above and discover your history today!
Newspapers.com Basic This link opens in a new window Only available on campus. Over 3100 newspapers from across the US. Dates range from 1700s-2000s.
New York Times Archive (1851-2006) This link opens in a new window A ProQuest Historical Newspaper, the New York Times Archive (1851-2006) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Wall Street Journal (Historical) This link opens in a new window A ProQuest Historical Newspaper, the Wall Street Journal offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue in 1889 and has an 18 year moving wall. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

International News Sources

Current News Sources

Factiva This link opens in a new window
Global news and business information service including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires, The Wall Street Journal, and thousands of other national and international newspapers in multiple languages. Also provides financial market data and company information.
No Systematic Downloading. Factiva may not be used for data mining, text mining, or trend analysis functions.
Latin American Newsstand (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
A selection of full-text Latin-American newspapers and newswires covering international and Latin-American regional topics.

18th, 19th, 20th-Century Newspapers

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection (Gale) This link opens in a new window The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media
British Library Online Newspaper Archive (Gale) This link opens in a new window This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.
CRL's Foreign Newspapers Database This link opens in a new window CRL's Foreign Newspapers Database provides access to The Center for Research Libraries' collection of more than 6,000 newspaper titles published outside the United States. Holdings from the various Area Study Microform Projects are included.
Daily Mail Archive (Gale) This link opens in a new window The Daily Mail has been at the heart of British journalism since 1896, regularly changing the course of government policy and setting the national debate. As well as providing access to the regular edition of this path-breaking newspaper, the archive also contains the Atlantic Editions, printed on board the transatlantic cruise liners between 1923 and 1931.

Historical Newspaper Archive (Finland) All Finnish newspapers published from 1771 - 1890 have now been digitized.

Illustrated London News (Gale) This link opens in a new window The Illustrated London News Historical Archive provides access to the full run of the paper (from 1842-2003). With its debut in 1842 the Illustrated London News became the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, sparking a revolution in journalism and news reporting. The publication presented a vivid picture of British and world events - including news of war, disasters, royalty, social affairs, the arts and science.
NewspaperARCHIVE This link opens in a new window NewspaperARCHIVE.com is the world's largest online newspaper archive. Featuring billions of articles from historical newspapers around the U.S. and the world, NewspaperARCHIVE makes exploring history and genealogy easy and fun. Discover fascinating news in archived newspapers hundreds of years old - including obituaries, birth announcements, sports articles, comics, and more – to fill in the life stories you are interested in. And share those stories with others through our community at OurNewspaperARCHIVE. All of our historical newspapers are full-page and fully searchable - try exploring above and discover your history today!
Times (London) Digital Archive (1785-1985) (Gale) This link opens in a new window Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper, 1785-1985, is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 This link opens in a new window A subject-inclusive, language-inclusive bibliography of 50,000 publications, 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756 subjects in victorian periodicals.
World Newspaper Archive (Newsbank) This link opens in a new window World Newspaper Archive is a fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe. This uniquely comprehensive online resource was created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) - one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories. Latin American Newspapers includes more than 35 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American newspapers, featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere.

Business News

Factiva This link opens in a new window
Global news and business information service including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires, The Wall Street Journal, and thousands of other national and international newspapers in multiple languages. Also provides financial market data and company information.
No Systematic Downloading. Factiva may not be used for data mining, text mining, or trend analysis functions.
ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
An intuitive and comprehensive business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos, and more.
Regional Business News (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Contains the full text of the most recent 30 days of business news wires from all over the world. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic, and other diverse, international news events. Updated daily.
Financial Times (Historical) This link opens in a new window
The Financial Times Historical Archive from Gale delivers the complete searchable run of the world's most authoritative daily business newspaper. Every item ever printed in the paper, from 1888-2010, can be searched and browsed article by article and page by page.

Utah Newspapers

Utah Digital Newspapers This link opens in a new window A growing digital collection of early Utah newspapers browsed by title or searched by keywords, article titles, weddings, deaths, and births. This is a Utah Academic Library Consortium project funded by the Library Services and Technology Act.

Utah Newspapers at the Lee Library A complete guide to all Utah Newspapers that are available at the Harold B. Lee Library.

Deseret News Archives (includes LDS Church News) This link opens in a new window From April 1988 to the present. More recent items include photos and graphics. Older items are text only.