Today’s guest post is about using the Google News Archive for German newspapers. German-language newspapers published in the U.S. can be important sources for obituaries and other information on German immigrant ancestors. My Germanic Genealogy teacher, Carolyn Thomas, of the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society, shares her insights on using the Google News Archive for German newspapers:
Besides the links to German-language newspapers in Chronicling America Nancy has shared, the Google News Archive has some German-language historic newspapers digitized and accessed by title at http://news.google.com/newspapers.
These were part of Google’s plan, unfortunately no longer supported, to digitize all extant historic newspapers. Some of us have benefitted greatly from the locations and newspapers with which Google began that effort.
For example, the following are German-language newspapers in Pennsylvania and Louisiana are available online at the Google News Archive for free:
Pittsburgh:
- Das Volksblatt – 1763 issues between 7 Dec 1871 and 27 Mar 1878
- Freiheits-Freund – 1,741 issues between 21 Feb 1834 and 4 Jun 1870
- Freiheits Freund und Pittsburger Courier – 982 issues between 1 Oct 1850 and 8 Mar 1865
- Pittsburger Volksblatt – 1,050 issues between 29 Mar 1847 and 4 Jun 1872
- Volksblatt Und Freiheits Freund – 10,041 issues between 4 May 1901 and 7 Jan 1995
New Orleans (some duplication of issues between titles):
- Deutsche Zeitung – 1 June 1853 – 31 July 1885, gaps; 388 issues
- Die Deutsche Zeitung – 21 Aug. 1849 – 31 May 1853, gaps; 1,143 issues
- Die Tägliche Deutsche Zeitung – 10 May 1845 – 1 Dec. 1857, gaps; 1,023 issues
- New Orleanser Deutsche Zeitung – 27 Apr. 1876 – 30 Dec. 1906, gaps; 4,161 issues
- New-Orleans Tägliche Deutsche Zeitung – 1 Jan. 1873 – 21 Aug. 1878, gaps; 886 issues
- Tägliche Deutsche Zeitung – 1 Dec. 1837 – 31 Oct. 1889, gaps; 4,996 issues
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