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This list includes free and pay sites of digital online newspaper archives organized by locations.
Below a is sample showing the listings for New Jersey:
- The Star-Ledger; Jersey Journal; The Times (Trenton); Gloucester County Times; The Express-Times; Bridgeton News; and Today's Sunbeam are archived jointly at NJ.com where it appears that there is only a two week archive, and older articles are purged from the website.
- Bordentown area newspapers (1845-2002) Free
- various Burlington County newspapers (1810-1980s) Free
- Cranbury Press; Cranbury, New Jersey; (1886-1926) in image Free
- Cranford Chronicle & Cranford Citizen (Cranford, NJ) 1894-2005 Free
- New Jersey Mirror (Burlington, NJ) (October 14, 1818 (vol. 1, no. 5) to March 5, 1947) Free
- Red Bank Register (Red Bank, NJ) 1878-1964 Free
- Daily Register (Red Bank, NJ) 1964-1991 Free
- South Amboy Citizen 1910-2000 Free
- various historical New Jersey papers Free
- Atlantic County Record, 1908-1917
- Atlantic Democrat and Cape May County Register, 1864-1865
- Atlantic Democrat and Cumberland County Patriot, 1866
- Atlantic Democrat, 1866-1868
- Atlantic Journal, 1860
- Hammonton Farmer, 1863 and 1866
- Hammonton Item, 1872-1877
- Mays Landing Record, 1877-1906
- South Jersey Republican, 1863-1923
- South Jersey Star, 1917-1923
This is definitely a "duh!" moment for me - I am all about online newspaper archives and I never thought to check Wikipedia for a listing! Coincidentally, the newspaper archives I've needed in my most recent search are from none other than the state of New Jersey!! Thanks so much for this post!
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ReplyDeleteGreat link! I'll have to dig through and see what I find...
ReplyDeleteIt never occurred to me to search Wikipedia for newspaper archives. Thanks for the tip!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mary Ellen. This is a "duh" moment for me as well. Thank you for posting this tip!
ReplyDeleteGreat post, I too never thought to check Wikipedia. I search in New Jersey all the time for the hubby's ancestors. I have however used the New Jersey Mirror. Thanks for the reminder about the great resource!
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