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Online resources

• See United States Newspapers for more databases
• 1756-1769 New Hampshire Gazette: Newspaper Abstracts, 1756-1769
• 1756-1800 New Hampshire Gazette: Vital Records, 1756-1800 at American Ancestors - index($)
• 1800-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)
• 1800-Current New Hampshire, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's-current at Ancestry — indexes ($)
• 1869-2008 New Hampshire Newspapers, 1869-2008 at MyHeritage - index ($)
• Names and Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont) at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
• New Hampshire Online Historical Newspapers
• Newspaper Archive ($)
• Genealogy Bank
• Online New Hampshire Newspapers
• New Hampshire Newspapers Online
• New Hampshire Newspapers
• 50states.com. New Hampshire Newspapers. Has an alphabetical list of newspapers with the towns where located and links to the newspapers' current web sites.
  
• New Hampshire Newspapers. Arranges the newspapers by type, then by town, then name of the newspaper with a link to the newspaper's current web site.
  

Introduction

Newspapers publish notices of marriage, divorce, death, funerals, obituaries, and wartime casualty lists. Notices include names of the persons involved and date of the event and may contain maiden names, names of parents, and other relatives.

Newspapers also publish articles of local interest, including religious and social events in the community with the names of those involved. Some newspapers serve several communities and devote columns to the everyday happenings in the area. Newspapers also include legal notices, estate sales, and advertising for local businesses.

History

New Hampshire’s newspapers began in 1756 with the Portsmouth New Hampshire Gazette.

Libraries and Archives

The New Hampshire Historical Society and the New Hampshire State Library are major repositories of New Hampshire newspapers. For addresses of these repositories, see New Hampshire Archives and Libraries and New Hampshire Societies.

Guide to Indexes

New England Library Association. Bibliography Committee. A Guide to Newspaper Indexes in New England. Holden, Massachusetts: New England Library Association, 1978. New Hampshire indexes are included in this guide. FS Catalog book 974 B32n; fiche 6051391.

Newspaper Directories

• 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.

• The New Hampshire State Library Concord, N.H. has a list of New Hampshire newspapers microfilmed for the New Hampshire Newspaper Project. The list gives the newspaper title, town, publisher, life span, and catalog and reel numbers so researchers can contact them for further details and obtain microfilm copies for purchase.
  

Digital Issues Online

• Chronicling America has some historical issues for the state of New Hampshire online.
  
• Genealogybank.com is a commercial internet site that has newspapers for many New Hampshire cities and towns. You can search the newspapers by first name and surname of the ancestor. Most of these newspapers are for the early 1800s though some go to the late 1800s.

FamilySearch Library

The FamilySearch Library does not have copies of New Hampshire newspapers, but it does have some published abstracts from newspapers, such as:

• Hammond, Otis G. Notices from the New Hampshire Gazette, 1765–1800. Lambertville, New Jersey: Hunterdon House, 1970. (FS Catalog book 974.2 V2ho; film 908584; fiche 6051306). These notices include marriage and death notices, primarily from Portsmouth and nearby areas. The book includes indexes.