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Help with Newspapers
Help with Newspaper Research
There are free online classes on using Newspapers in genealogy research on the Family Search and Ancestry Library Edition Learning Center pages. The books below will also be helpful.
How to Find Your Family History in Newspapers by
The author presents information about how to research family history in newspapers, along with her expert advice and tips for both hands-on and online genealogical research in newspapers.
Call Number: 929.1072 Cooke
Searching for Your Ancestors in Historic Newspapers by
Every genealogist needs this book, if they're serious about researching their family history. Family stories of all kinds, not just obituaries, can be found in newspapers. While major metropolitan newspapers are being digitized and placed online, many more are available for viewing on microfilm. Learn about the free newspaper databases, and discover which newspapers are covered in subscription databases. Also included is the first-ever state-by-state listing of libraries and genealogical societies that have indexed local newspapers, along with state digitized collections not found elsewhere, and microfilm collections for each state. Interested in family history? Start your research today!
Call Number: 929.1072 Breland
Albuquerque Newspapers
Albuquerque Newspapers
The Library has microfilm copies of Albuquerque newspapers from 1887 to the present, including the Albuquerque Journal and the Albuquerque Tribune. A vital records index of names from the Albuquerque papers 1888-1927 and an obituary index through 2003 is available on a Local Area Network at the Genealogy Center. We also have some print, microfiche and card indexes for the Albuquerque papers.
Access Albuquerque and New Mexico newspapers online using these full-text databases with your Library card.
- Newspaper Archive Library Edition - New Mexico This link opens in a new window
NewspaperARCHIVE Library Edition is an online database that provides searchable access to New Mexico newspapers. Every part of every page is searchable, including valuable local articles, advertisements, editorials, classified ads, and obituaries. The collection contains over 128 different newspapers from across New Mexico. The archives cover New Mexico history from 1847-2019 and allow you to further understand an ancestor's place within their local community to research your genealogy. Start your New Mexico ancestry search now and discover more about your ancestor's stories! - Historical Newspapers: New Mexico Collection This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New Mexico Collection empowers researchers to digitally travel back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to local and regional history. Each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page images in easily downloadable PDF format.
Early New Mexico Newspapers
Early New Mexico Newspapers
The Library has many early New Mexico newspapers, including many on microfilm at the Genealogy Center. Records for these newspapers are in the online catalog.
You will find digitized newspapers online for New Mexico on NewspaperARCHIVE and Chronicling America.
Chronicling America
Chronicling America from the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress' Chronicling America website has fully searchable digitized newspapers published in Albuquerque and New Mexico before 1923. The Albuquerque papers include:
- Albuquerque Citizen, 1907-1909
- Albuquerque Daily Citizen, 1895-1903
- Albuquerque Evening Citizen, 1905-1907
- Albuquerque Evening Herald, 1911-1914
- Albuquerque Weekly Citizen, 1891-19??
- The Evening Herald, 1914-1922
The earliest New Mexico paper that is included in Chronicling America is for 1880. There are currently early digitized newspapers on this site for Albuquerque, Aztec, Carlsbad, Carrizozo, Cimmaron, Clayton, Clovis, Columbus, Deming, Kenna, Las Vegas, Lincoln County, Lordsburg, Red River, Socorro, and Tucumcari.
- Chronicling America This link opens in a new window
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to 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.
New Mexico Newspapers
Contemporary New Mexico Newspapers
Newsbank provides access to major articles from the following newspapers: Albuquerque Journal 1995- present, Las Cruces Sun-News 2004- present, the Roswell Daily Record 2002- present, and the Santa Fe New Mexican 1994- present.
- NewsBank This link opens in a new window
Newsbank is an online, searchable database providing access to three New Mexico newspapers. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community.
The papers currently included are:
Albuquerque Journal 1/1/1995-Present
Las Cruces Sun-News 2/14/2004-Present
Roswell Daily Record 1/2/2002-Present - Gale OneFile News (InfoTrac Newsstand) This link opens in a new window
Includes select articles from the Santa Fe New Mexican 1994 - current, Taos News 2007- current, Clovis News Journal 2005- current, and other New Mexico newspapers.
- Newspapers at the New Mexico State LibraryThe New Mexico State Library has many current subscriptions to local New Mexico newspapers and holds thousands of rolls of microfilm for New Mexico newspapers dating from the territorial period of the 1850’s to the present. Many of these materials can be requested by your library through interlibrary loan.
- PressReader This link opens in a new window
PressReader gives you unlimited access to thousands of magazines and newspapers from around the world. Read newspaper stories and magazine articles the minute they’re available on newsstands. Shift easily between the original page replica and a custom story layout optimized for mobile reading. Or, bring it all to life with listening mode, one-touch translation, and dynamic commenting.
Newspaper Links
- Newspaper Archive Library Edition - New Mexico This link opens in a new window NewspaperARCHIVE Library Edition is an online database that provides searchable access to New Mexico newspapers. Every part of every page is searchable, including valuable local articles, advertisements, editorials, classified ads, and obituaries. The collection contains over 128 different newspapers from across New Mexico. The archives cover New Mexico history from 1847-2019 and allow you to further understand an ancestor's place within their local community to research your genealogy. Start your New Mexico ancestry search now and discover more about your ancestor's stories!
- Chronicling America from the Library of Congress Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
- Google News Archive American and foreign newspapers, including both free and fee-based services.
- Old Fulton NY Post Cards More than 23.5 million newspaper pages from all over New York beginning with 1726
