16 January 2021

The 5 Best Free Sites for Online Newspaper Research for Genealogy

On 14 January Kenneth R. Marks added this blog post to his site The Ancestor Hunt. Actually, it's an updated post.  While it's strong on US content some on his list include Canadian content — the quirky Old Fulton NY Post Cards, which wouldn't load when I tried, and  Google News Archive with its hobbled search capability.

Here's my list.

Canadiana Online
The only free national newspaper site for Canada. Newspapers are incorporated at https://www.canadiana.ca/collection-serials/. CKRN, which runs the site, has been asked to separate out the newspaper collection.

The other's in my top five are provincial — the most populous provinces — the best way into these is via The Ancestor Hunt - Newspaper Links and scroll down to the Canada section.

Our Ontario Community Newspapers and Canadian Community Digital Archives
Bibliotheque et Archives Nationales du Quebec - Newspapers
British Columbia Historical Newspapers
Peel's Prairie Provinces: Newspapers 1871-2007


1 comment:

Kenneth R Marks said...

Thanks for the mention John. I haven't been as thorough as I should be with the inclusion of the Canadiana newspaper collections when updating my Canada newspaper links. Thanks for the reminder.