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New Papers from Texas, California, Florida, Washington, and South Carolina!

May 25, 2022May 25, 2022

We’re excited to announce that in conjunction with our publishing partner Gannett, we’ve added 13 more papers from five states to our archives! These papers

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Family Bible Finds in the Newspapers!

May 16, 2022May 16, 2022

Family bibles are a treasure for genealogists and often recorded important events like births, deaths, and marriages. Family bibles were especially popular in the 1700s

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New Papers from Texas, California, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, and Florida!

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022

We’ve teamed up with our publishing partner Gannett to introduce 27 new papers from six states! Dating back to 1848, the newspapers in this collection

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Newspaper Finds

Evidence of the G.I. Bill in the 1950 Census

April 14, 2022April 19, 2022

The 1950 U.S. Census records have been released. Several states are already indexed and searchable on Ancestry®. Others will become available in the coming weeks

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Headlines in History

April 14, 1935: Black Sunday Dust Storm

April 5, 2022April 5, 2022

On April 14, 1935, a massive black cloud of dust rolled across several states, including Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. The wall of

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Announcing Nearly 35 Million Pages of Canadian Newspapers!

March 23, 2022March 30, 2022

We are pleased to announce the addition of millions of new pages of Canadian content to our archives. We have papers from Alberta, British Columbia,

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Newspaper Finds

Countdown to the Release of the 1950 U.S. Census

March 18, 2022May 18, 2022

On April 1, 1950, some 150,000 census workers, armed with pencils and thick pads of census schedules, set out to visit every residence in the

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Black History Newspapers

February 23, 2022March 15, 2022

In honor of Black History Month, we wanted to spotlight some of our Black History newspapers. These papers are either Black-owned or covered news relevant

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Newspaper Finds

The Double V Campaign

February 15, 2022March 1, 2022

On a January day in 1942, a young Black man penned a letter to the editor at the Pittsburgh Courier asking a poignant question, “Should

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Newspaper Finds

Indiana’s Most Famous Landmark Disappears

January 19, 2022January 19, 2022

In the late 1800s, people flocked to the shores of Lake Michigan to play in the sand. Visitors loved to climb a 200-foot landmark dune

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