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Guide to locating census records for ancestry, family history, and genealogy research.

Online Genealogical Records Pages
On the main page for each U.S. State page and country page, a blue button leads to a listing of online record collections.


 * Also, all the available Online Genealogy Records pages are linked at Online Genealogy Records by Location.

FamilySearch Catalog

 * Census Records collected by FamilySearch, usually digitized and online, are listed in the FamilySearch catalog. Enter the name of the country in the "Place Field" and click "Search". A list of record categories will be provided. Select "Census".

International Newspaper Collections
Free


 * Elephind.com - mostly USA, Australia, New Zealand
 * Europeana - various European countries including Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Serbia, and Poland
 * Internet Archive
 * Google Books

Fagan Finder provides quick access to the largest collections.

National and Local Newspapers
This is a sample of the ongoing projects around the world.

Cyndi's List is the oldest free genealogical directory online. There is a Newspapers category that lists all newspapers alphabetically by title. Newspapers can also be found linked under each locality or topic. For example: United States » Ohio » Newspapers, United Kingdom & Ireland » England » Newspapers and more. Check out the categories.

Online Historical Newspapers Website Have you ever wished you could find links to all the online historical newspapers in one place? A place where they were listed by county and city so you could find the newspapers your ancestors read? This is the purpose of the Online Historical Newspapers Website. It is meant to be used as an aid to genealogists, historians, and other researchers. These links include both free sites and subscription database websites.

For an extensive list of archives see Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives.

A private research group has compiled a large list of free newspaper archives in several categories:


 * US Newspaper Archives, by state
 * European Newspaper Archives, by country
 * Other International Newspaper Archives (Canada, Australia, Asia, Carribean and others)
 * College Newspaper Archives
 * Historical Magazine Archives

Western Europe
There are many articles here in the Research Wiki about newspapers in a particular country or region. Try searching for the name of the country or region plus the word "newspapers."


 * Austrian Newspapers Online(Free)
 * Digitale Krantenarchief - D.A.D.D. vzw / Stadsarchief Aalst Belgian Newspapers 1836-1992 (Free)
 * England Newspapers
 * Germany Newspapers
 * Wales Newspapers
 * Scotland Newspapers
 * Prussia-Schlesien Newspapers
 * Ireland Newspapers
 * Austria Newspapers

Eastern Europe
The Bulgarian National Library has digitized and opened to the public its complete collection of Bulgarian newspapers since before the Liberation up to the end of World War II. See "Продължаващи издания" (Continuing publications). Free

North America
There are many articles about newspapers in specific states or provinces in the Research Wiki. Try searching for the name of the state or province plus the word "newspapers."

America's Historic Newspapers 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).

The British Columbia Digital Library lists over 40 websites of Historical Newspapers including: Alberta, Canada; Australia; Austria; British Columbia, Canada; Finland; New Zealand; Norway; Ontario, Canada; United States and others. United States links include: Barrington, Illinois; Bloomington, Illinois; Brooklyn, New York; Los Angeles, California; Hawaii (click on The British Columbia Digital Library link above, go down to Hawaii links); and others.

California Digital Newspaper Collection has over 100,000 pages of California newspapers from 1900-1910: the San Francisco Call, the Amador Ledger, the Imperial Valley Press, and the Los Angeles Herald. Plans are to digitize another 100,000 pages of the years 1880-1910.

Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection has selected newspapers from 1859-1923. This site uses a map to select the region or use browse all or search all tabs.

The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections (IDNC) website is an online archive of digitized historic newspapers and trade journals from Illinois and other parts of the United States. There are currently over 1,000,000 pages of newspaper content ranging from 1831-2011.

Northern New York Historical Newspapers provides indexed access to selected historical newspapers from Clinton County, 1811-2006; Essex County, 1844-2007; Franklin County, 1842-2002; Jefferson 1886-1918; Lewis County, 1860-1940; Oswego County, 1916-2002; and St. Lawrence County, 1861-2007. These are in PDF format from digitized microfilms. Some newspaper titles which were on microfilm were too poor to copy.

Old Fulton NY Post Cards is probably the largest collection of digitized New York (state) newspapers online, with over 18 million historical newspaper pages from over 400 New York newspapers between 1795 and 2007. The site also contains Fulton County cemetery records, censuses, city directories, church records, maps, photos, postcards and probate records. Use is free; searching can be somewhat complex, but is very flexible. Also includes other US states, and a few newspapers from Canada and elsewhere.

The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a partnership between the NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) and the Library of Congress. Provides grants to digitize historical newspapers. The program's aim is to provide greater access to US newspapers. The goal is to digitize significant historical newspapers from all states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. It will be maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) and be freely accessible via the Internet.

Utah Digital Newspapers contains hundreds of thousands of newspaper pages. Current listing of titles.

NewsBank has many newspapers online GenealogyBank.com - the largest online newspaper archive for family history research, with over 1.5billion names from 1600 to present day. Free search but paid subscription for copies.

FreeNewspaperArchives lists hundreds of no-cost archives in the United States, organized by region.

Central and South America
The Hemeroteca Digital "Fray Francisco de Paula Castañeda" provides searchable online access to digitized copies of newspapers from Province of Santa Fe (1911–1979). Free

Pacific

 * Australia Trove Digitized Newspapers and more Trove is a valuable website and very useful for genealogy sponsored by the National Library of Australia.