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New York State Historical Newspapers Archive Expands with 11 Regional Titles
The Ancestor Hunt reports that the New York State Historical Newspapers database has added 11 new historical newspaper titles to its online archive.
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Newspaper Editions & Archives
Curated insights and technical walkthroughs to help you navigate specific digital formats, reading apps, and regional press archives.
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Understanding Newgen Software’s Role in Digital Archiving and Content Management
According to citybiz and IT Brief New Zealand, Newgen Software has been recognized as a notable vendor in Forrester’s The Information Archiving…
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How the New KURIER App Consolidates Digital News and ePaper Access
According to a Google Play Store listing, Austrian publisher KURIER has rolled out a single unified app that pulls its website, ePaper replica, and…
Old Newspapers Online: What to Look for in a Digital Archive
The quality of an online newspaper archive is determined before the search box is used. Scan resolution, OCR processing, page structure, metadata…
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GenealogyBank Expands Historical Archive with 31 Newly Added Newspaper Titles
If you've ever hit GenealogyBank's paywall mid-search for a great-grandparent's obituary, you know the frustration: you spot a promising newspaper…
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PressReader July Catalog Update Adds Major Global Newspaper Replicas
As PressReader reports, the July 31 catalog refresh adds fresh editions of more than 7,000 publications to the digital newsstand—including The Globe…
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Unlocking Irish History Through the Irish Newspaper Archives
If you've ever hit a paywall hunting for an Irish newspaper page from 1850, the Irish Newspaper Archives (INA) — recently highlighted by the American…
Newspaper Archive Search: How to Choose the Right Platform
To search newspaper archives effectively, collection size is a secondary metric. The controlling variables are geography, publication date, edition…
Old newspaper archives: search methods for historical editions
The infrastructure behind historical newspaper research has changed again. Since the Library of Congress upgraded Chronicling America in August 2025…
Local newspaper archives: step-by-step digital search guide
The bottleneck in local newspaper research is rarely the lack of pages. It is the search layer built on top of them. A regional title may have been…
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How to Navigate The New Era’s Premium Digital Subscription Model
According to The New Era, readers now need a monthly account to open its full e-edition and local journalism archives.
Newspaper archives online: data and access verification list
You've found the perfect title, the date lines up, and you're certain the story ran — but the scan isn't there. The directory entry promises…
Local newspaper archives online: checklist for local history
You've typed a grandparent's name into three different archive search boxes, and every result returns either nothing or a wall of unrelated matches…
E-newspaper archives: what to check before subscribing
You click on a promising headline from 1947, the page loads, and you realize you're staring at a blurry photograph of newsprint with no way to search…
UK Newspaper Archives: What They Are and How They Work
You've finally tracked down a reference to your great-grandfather's name in a 1903 Leeds newspaper — and the link drops you on a paywall asking £7.95…
Free online newspaper archives: a pre-search checklist
You've been hunting for a specific article — a mention of a relative in the local paper from 1952, a front-page report on a weather event, the…
Evaluate Historical Newspaper Databases Before Buying
A historical newspaper database can look complete while failing at the two tasks that matter: locating the right issue and rendering the page at…