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Online Resources

• See United States Newspapers for more databases
• 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)
• Arkansas Online Historical Newspapers
• Arkansas Newspapers ($)
• Arkansas Newspapers
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
• GenealogyBank.com, Arkansas Newspaper Archives (1819 - 1999) ($)
• Names and Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com (Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky) at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
• NewsLink | Newspapers | U.S. | Arkansas
• Newspaper Abstracts - Arkansas
• NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Arkansas ($)
• Newspapers.com - Historical Newspapers in Arkansas ($)
• OnlineNewspapers.com - Arkansas
• NewspaperArchive ($) has a collection of digitized Arkansas newspapers online. This database is sometimes free at libraries. It may be under the name Access NewspaperArchive.

Libraries and Archives

The best collection of Arkansas newspapers is at the Arkansas History Commission. The following guides can help you locate and search Arkansas newspapers:

Allsopp, Fred W. History of the Arkansas Press for a Hundred Years and More. 1922. Reprint. Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1978. FS Catalog book 976.7 B3a.

Union List of Arkansas Newspapers, 1819-1942. Little Rock, Arkansas: Historical Records Survey, 1942. FS Catalog book 976.7 B3h; FS Library film 897366 item 2 and FS Library fiche 6051358.

Newspaper Directory

The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present is a national directory from the Library of Congress of over 140,000 newspaper titles. The directory provides a list of libraries from around the country that have the newspapers in their collections.

Indexes

Morgan, James Logan. Arkansas Newspaper Index, 1819-1845: Index to Obituaries, Biographical and Probate and Chancery Notices. Newport, Arkansas: Morgan Books, 1981. FS Catalog book 976.7 B32m.

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