Google Index (International): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_archives_online
National Sites for research: A brief history of newspapers-Historic Newspapers: http://www.historicpages.com/nprhist.htm
Visualization of newspapers spread from east to west; Data Visualization:
Journalism’s Voyage West: http://www.stanford.edu/group/ruralwest/cgi-bin/drupal/visualizations/us_newspapers
Newspapers in Microform, LOC: http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/news_research_tools/newspapersinmf.html
Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/extnewsp.html
Start & Stripes: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/
Library of Congress, Chronicling of America: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ (26 states with newspapers from 1836-1922)
Library of Congress, browsable newspapers listed by state: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/
Library of Congress, U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/
Newspaper Program: http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html
Newspaper Abstracts: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/
Repository of Primary Sources: http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
United States Newspaper Program: http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/usnp/usnpp.html
US Newspaper Links: current newspapers (not inclusive list): http://www.usnpl.com/
US Full-Text Newspaper Databases: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/news/db.html
Readex: Early American Newspapers, 1690-1876: http://www.newsbank.com/readex/?content=96
Small Town Papers: $$$ http://www.smalltownpapers.com/
http://newspaperarchive.com/
$$$
(Membership is $99.95 per 6 months. OR you can join Godfrey Library http://www.godfrey.org/scholar/welcome.php
for $80 a year)
Cyndi’s List, Newspapers: http://www.cyndislist.com/newspapers
Ancestry.com $$$: http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=50000&enc=1
Rootsweb Newspaper Indexes: http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/news/
Google News Archive Service: http://news.google.com/archivesearch
GenealogyBuff.com – US newspaper list
US Newspaper Indexes in Olin University:
****US Online Historical Newspapers:
****https://sites.google.com/site/onlinenewspapersite/Home/usa
Newspapers, date of Statehood in parentheses. ILL equals Inter Library Loan.
Alabama: (1819) ILL
AL Dept. of Archives and History:
http://www.archives.state.al.us/dataindex.html
Birmingham Public Library: http://www.bham.lib.al.us/ (See databases on that site)
Alaska: (1959) ILL
Obituaries, Newspaper Obituaries (scroll to AK)
Newspaper Indexes & Databases -- Alaska State Library
The Alaska State Library: Newspapers Index
Alaska Online Historical Newspapers - Online Historical Newspapers
GenealogyBuff.com - Online Newspaper Directory - Alaska Newspapers
Petersburg Public Library: Newspapers (Many!)
Arizona: (1912) ILL
Arizona Newspaper Project: http://www.azlibrary.gov/sla/arizona-newspapers
Mesa FamilySearch Library Obituary Search: http://mesarfhc.org/search/azobits.htm
Chronicling America - The Library of Congress
Arizona Online Historical Newspapers - Online Historical Newspapers
Obituaries, Newspaper Obituaries (scroll to AZ)
GenealogyBuff.com - Online Newspaper Directory - Arizona Newspapers
State of Arizona Obituary and Death Notices Collection - Message Index
Arizona Digital Newspaper Program
Arizona Historical Newspapers - THE ANCESTOR HUNT
Arkansas: (1836) Arkansas History Commission: http://www.ark-ives.com/documenting/newspapers.asp
Princeton University Library: African American Newspapers, 1829- present: http://libguides.princeton.edu/aas
Arkansas Online Historical Newspapers - Online Historical Newspapers
Arkansas Online Historical Directories (Online Historical Directories)
State of Arkansas Obituary and Death Notices Collection - Message Index
GenealogyBuff.com - Online Newspaper Directory - Arkansas Newspapers
Obituaries, Newspaper Obituaries (scroll to AR)
California: (1850)
California State Library, Sutro: http://www.library.ca.gov/calhist/newspaper.html (ILL only "non-rare materials,")
California Newspaper Project: http://cnp.ucr.edu/
California Digital Newspaper Collection: http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc
The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkley: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
USC Digital Library: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/search/searchterm/newspaper/order/nosort
Archive Search - LA Daily News - 1992-
Whittier Public Library Digital Archives
Colorado: (1876)
Colorado Historical Society: http://www.coloradohistory.org/chs_library/research_coll_files/rc_newspapers.htm
Colorado newspaper online (today’s newspapers) http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/usstate/uscolora.htm
Colorado Historic Newspapers, 1859-1923: http://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/Default/Skins/Colorado/Client.asp?Skin=Colorado&AppName=2&AW=1393717702427
Connecticut: (1788)
Connecticut State Library: ILL: http://www.cslib.org/cnp.htm
Connecticut Newspaper Indexes: http://www.cslib.org/newspaper/indexes.htm
Newspaper of Connecticut: http://cslib.cdmhost.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15019coll9
Delaware: (1787)
University of Delaware Library: ILL http://www2.lib.udel.edu/delnews/
UDel, Microfilmed Newspaper List: http://www2.lib.udel.edu/delnews/list.htm Historical Society of Delaware: http://www.hsd.org/ [“Newspaper” in search box]
District of Columbia:
D.C. Public Library: http://www.h-net.org/~dclist/dcplnews1.pdf
D.C. Public Library Special Collections: http://dclibrary.org/research/collections
Florida: (1845)
State Library of Florida: ILL http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/fgils/flnews2.html State Library of Florida, Florida Collection: http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/library/FLCollection/newspapers.cfm
Florida History in Newspapers: http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/newspap.html
Boca Raton Historical Society: http://www.bocahistory.org/boca_history/br_history_newpaper.asp
Florida Digital Newspaper Library: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/?c=fdnl1
Georgia: (1788)
University of Georgia: ILL http://www.libs.uga.edu/gnp/
Digital Library of Georgia: [very long link] http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/zlgn_information.html?Welcome&Welcome&Welcome **Search engine for Digital Library** http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/ftaccess.cgi?_id=7f000001&dbs=ZLGN
Georgia Historic Newspapers: http://atlnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers/search
Hawaii: (1959) (NO ILL)
Hawaii State Archives: http://ags.hawaii.gov/
Hawaiian Historical Society: http://www.hawaiianhistory.org/
Hawaiian Language Newspaper Index: http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/newspapers.htm
University of Hawaii: http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/research/digicoll.html Hawai’i Newspaper Indexes: http://www.hawaii.edu/emailref/instruction/guides/hni.pdf
Idaho: (1890) (Edit>Search>Newspapers)
Idaho State Historical society: Some ILL http://history.idaho.gov/archives-collections
Illinois: (1818)
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency: ILL http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/Microfilm.htm
Illinois Newspaper Project: ILL http://www.library.illinois.edu/inp/microfilm.php
Chicago’s, Hyde Park Herald: http://www.hpherald.com/archive/
Barrington Area History: http://barringtonarealibrary.org/local-history.html Farm, Field & Fireside; Agricultural Newspaper Collection: http://www.library.illinois.edu/dnc/Default/Skins/FFF/Client.asp?Skin=FFF&AppName=2&AW=1393718338924
Flora Journal-Record: http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/search/collection/fpl01 Quincy Historical Newspaper Archive: http://www.quincylibrary.org/library_resources/newspaperArchive.asp
Indiana: (1816)
Indiana State Library: ILL http://www.in.gov/library/newspapers.htm
Indiana Historical Society: http://www.indianahistory.org/ [‘newspaper’ in search box]
Indiana University, Bloomington: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=3089
Indianapolis Newspapers Database, 1848-1991: http://web.isl.lib.in.us/IndyNews/1848_1991_search.asp
Depauw University, Digital Archives: http://digital.library.depauw.edu/
Iowa: (1846)
State Historical Society of Iowa: ILL$ http://www.iowahistory.org/libraries/newspaper-search.html
Barnard Bulletin, Digital Archives: http://barnardcollege.newspaperarchive.com/Default.aspx
Floyd County: http://cc.newspaperarchive.com/
Sioux County Index, The: http://siouxcounty.newspaperarchive.com/
Kansas: (1861)
Kansas State Historical Society: http://www.kshs.org/p/newspapers-in-kansas/11528
Kentucky: (1792)
University of Kentucky Libraries: ILL http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/NDNP/kycollections.html
Kentucky GenWeb: http://www.kygenweb.net/counties/ukfilm.html
Louisiana: (1812) ILL
Louisiana State University: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/lnp/ft/ftsearch.php
The New Orleans Bee: http://www.jefferson.lib.la.us/genealogy/NewOrleansBeeMain.htm
Maine: (1820) ILL
University of Maine, Fogler Library: http://library.umaine.edu/speccoll/newspapers.htm
Maine UsGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~megenweb/newspaper/project/
Maryland: (1788)
Maryland State Archives: http://speccol.mdarchives.state.md.us/pages/newspaper/index.aspx
Maryland State Archives - by County: http://speccol.mdarchives.state.md.us/pages/newspaper/index.aspx
Frederick County Public Libraries: http://fredericknewspost.newspaperarchive.com/
University of Maryland, Periodicals and Newspapers: http://lib.guides.umd.edu/content.php?pid=131120&sid=1149455
St. Mary's Beacon Index, 1852-1980: http://beacon.lib.md.us/
Baltimore Sun, 1837-1986, 1990-date: http://guides.library.jhu.edu/content.php?pid=29913&sid=218712
Massachusetts: (1788)
Boston Public Library: ILL http://www.bpl.org/research/microtext/news.htm State Library of Massachusetts: http://www.mass.gov/portal/
In Search box, input: ‘Historical Newspapers’ Massachusetts Newspapers Index & Database: http://www.mass-doc.com/news_indexes.htm
Massachusetts, Cambridge Tribune: http://cambridge.dlconsulting.com/
Boston Evening Transcript, 1850s-1890s: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=sArNgO4T4MoC
Obits, Boston Globe & Boston Herald, 1953-2010: http://www.bpl.org/catalogs/interpro/bpl_search/obits.htm
Michigan: (1837)
Michigan State University: http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/content.php?pid=61656&sid=454236
Michigan, Otsego County Newspaper Archive: http://www.newspaperobituaries.net/michigan/otsego_county_obituaries.htm
Michigan, Farmington – Historical Newspaper Collection: http://www.farmlib.org/localhist/
Western Michigan Newspapers, 1910-2012: http://data.wmgs.org/Newspapers/FMPro?-token=114887&-db=Newspapers&-format=search.htm&-findall
Minnesota: (1858)
University of Minnesota: https://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=942
Minnesota Historical Society (‘Newspapers’ over half way down the page): http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/personal/guide.html
Winona Newspaper Project: http://www.winona.edu/library/databases/winonanewspaperproject.htm
Minneapolis Central: Labor Review: http://www.minneapolisunions.org/labor_review_archive_about.php
Mississippi: (1817)
Mississippi Department of Archives and History: http://zed.mdah.state.ms.us/
Missouri: (1821)
Missouri History Museum – Digitized St. Louis Newspapers: http://www.mohistory.org/node/7179
Missouri Digital Heritage – Search engine for site: http://cdm.sos.mo.gov/cdm4/search.php
Missouri Newspaper Card File Indexes: http://shs.umsystem.edu/newspaper/newscardfiles.shtml
State Historical Society of Missouri: ILL http://shs.umsystem.edu/newspaper/index.shtml
Montana: (1889)
Montana Historical Society: http://mhs.mt.gov/research/library/pamphletsguides.asp
Nebraska: (1867)
Nebraska State Historical Society: ILL http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/research/library/newspapr.htm Nebraska Newspaper Extraction Project: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/newspapers/NSHS/nshsnews.htm
Nevada: (1864)
Nevada State Library: http://nsla.nevadaculture.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1210
University of Nevada, Las Vegas: http://www.library.unlv.edu/collections/micro/nevnews/
New Hampshire: (1788)
New Hampshire Historical Society: http://www.nhhistory.org/orginfo.html New Hampshire State Library: http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/public/newspapers.html
New Jersey: (1787)
New Jersey Historical Society: http://www.jerseyhistory.org/search.php?sstring=newspapers
Middle Tennessee State University: http://libraryguides.mtsu.edu/content.php?pid=337355&sid=2940615
New Jersey Newspapers: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/scua.shtml
New Mexico: (1912)
New Mexico Newspaper Project: http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm/
New York: (1788)
New York State Newspaper Project: ILL http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/
New York Historical Society: https://www.nyhistory.org/library/research
Pro-Quest: Historical New York Newspapers: http://historynews.chadwyck.com/home/home.cgi?source=config2.cfg
Brooklyn Daily Eagle: http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Default/Skins/BEagle/Client.asp?Skin=BEagle&AppName=2&GZ=T&AW=1393722560625
Huron River Valley Historical Newspapers: http://news.hrvh.org/
Ithaca College, The Ithican: Historical Issues in a Digital Version: http://www.ithacalibrary.com/archives/ithacan.php
Cornell University - The Cornell Daily Sun Digitization Project: http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/
Suffolk Historic Newspapers: http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Default/Skins/Suffolk/Client.asp?Skin=Suffolk&AppName=2&AW=1393722685446
Fulton History (warning! music): http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
New York Times, 1851-1980: http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?srchst=p
New York State Newspaper Project: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/about.htm
New York Newspaper Morgues: http://www.cah.utexas.edu/research/media_morgues.php
North Carolina: (1789)
North Carolina Newspaper Project: ILL http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ghl/resources/newspapers.html
North Carolina Newspaper Digitization: http://www.history.ncdcr.gov/SHRAB/ar/exhibits/newspaper/index.html
North Carolina Digital: http://library.digitalnc.org/cdm/search/searchterm/Newspapers/field/format/mode/exact/
RCPL: Newspaper Obituaries 1903-1995: http://randolphlibrary.libguides.com/content.php?pid=483689&sid=3977128
North Dakota: (1889)
State Historical Society of North Dakota: http://history.nd.gov/archives/whatnewspapers.html
Ohio: (1803) ILL$
The Ohio Historical Society: http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/newspaper/home.cfm Ohio Newspaper Index: http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/database/news.html
Ohio Obituary Index: http://index.rbhayes.org/hayes/index/record_detail.asp?id=1479429
Oklahoma: (1907)
Oklahoma Historical Society: http://okhistory.cuadra.com/star/public.html University of Oklahoma Libraries, Western History Collections: http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/sooner/search.asp?term=newspapers&name=Go The Gateway to Oklahoma History: http://gateway.okhistory.org/
Oregon: (1859) ILL
Newspapers on Microfilm: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/micro/papers.htm
Oregon Newspaper Microfilming Project: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/micro/pos.htm
Oregon Newspaper Index: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/micro/nindex.htm
Genealogical Forum of Oregon-Oregon Obituary Index: http://www.gfo.org/obits/index.htm
Pennsylvania: (1787)
Free Library of Philadelphia: http://libwww.library.phila.gov/faq/guides/genealogy/newspapers.cfm?FAQCategory=19
Penn Libraries: http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/guides/philadelphia/phnews.html
Rhode Island: (1790)
Rhode Island Historical Society: http://www.rihs.org/newspapers-and-periodicals/
South Carolina: (1788)
South Carolina State Library: http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/south-carolina-obituary-resources
South Carolina Historical Society: http://www.southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org/
South Dakota: (1889)
South Dakota State Historical Society: http://history.sd.gov/
South Dakota State Library: http://library.sd.gov/LIB/ERD/access/complete.aspx
Tennessee: (1796)
Tennessee State Library & Archives: http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/newspapers/index.htm
Tennessee State Library & Archive: http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/newspapers/tn-obits.htm
Texas: (1845)
Dallas Public Library: http://www.dallaslibrary2.org/texas/newspapers.htm
Texas State Library: https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/news.html
University of Texas, Austin: http://www.cah.utexas.edu/services/finding_items/newspapers.php
Texas Newspaper Project: http://www.cah.utexas.edu/research/newspapers.php
Portal of Texas: The Portal to Texas History-Newspapers [above search box]
Utah: (1896)
Utah State Historical Society: http://heritage.utah.gov/
Finding aid at USHS: http://history.utah.gov/findaids/index.html [scroll down to Collections]
Vermont: (1791)
Vermont Newspaper Project: http://library.uvm.edu/vtnp/
Burlington Free Press/Rutland Herald Index: http://bfprhdindex.uvm.edu/
Vermont Genealogy: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~mac87/online.html#newspapers
Old Newspaper Collections Project: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/niagara/news/vt/index.html
Virginia: (1788)
University of Mary Washington: http://libguides.umw.edu/newspapers
The Virginia Newspaper Project: http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/using_collections.asp#_guides-NewspapersandMagazines
Fairfax County, Virginia – Historical Newspaper index with over 1M records from 10 papers. http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/newsindex/
Virginia Tech |American Civil War Newspapers: https://dcr.emd.vt.edu/vital/access/manager/Index
Virginia Gazette, 1736-1780: http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/BrowseVG.cfm
Washington: (1889) ILL
Washington State Library: http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/genealogy.aspx University of Washington: http://depts.washington.edu/mcnews/indexes/newsguide.htm
Walla Walla, WA, WWII Airport Newspaper Archives: http://www.wallawallaairport.com/airport-information/history
West Virginia: (1863) ILL
West Virginia University Libraries: http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/collections/collection.php?id=48
West Virginia State Archives: http://www.wvculture.org/history/newspapers/newsmic.html
Wisconsin: (1847) ILL
Wisconsin Historical Society Library: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/collections/news.asp
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/
Wyoming: (1890)
Wyoming State Archives: http://micrographics.state.wy.us/index.aspx Wyoming Newspaper Project: http://www.wyonewspapers.org/
African-American Newspapers and Periodicals
Wisconsin Historical Society: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aanp/freedom/
The Friend of Man: http://fom.library.cornell.edu/
Ethnic Newspaper:
Immigration History Research Center: http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/
Duke University; Jewish Studies: http://guides.library.duke.edu/jewishstudies
Foreign: Canadian:
Saskatchewan GenWeb-ILL http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansk/Saskatchewan/newspaper.html
Canada/Austria/Britain/Ireland: (1/3 way down page) ‘The Press in America’ & ‘Newspaper Collections’ & ‘American Newspapers’ – some links broken as page is ‘old’ http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rwguide/lesson20.htm Quebec Collections: http://www.banq.qc.ca/collections/collection_numerique/index.html?categorie=6
Manitoba Digital Resources: http://manitobia.ca/content/en/newspapers
International Coalition on Newspapers: http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm
Irish Newspaper Archives: http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/
Papers Past – New Zealand newspapers, 1839-1945: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
National Library of Singapore: http://newspapers.nl.sg/default.aspx
*And last but least, before you throw in the towel, Google the name you are seeking with quotes.*