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Online Resources

• 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)
• 1800-Current North Dakota Archives Newspaper Search at North Dakota State Archives — index & images ($)
• 1800-Current North Dakota, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's-current at Ancestry — index & images ($)
• North Dakota Online Historical Newspapers
• North Dakota Newspapers ($)
• Chronicling America
• North Dakota Newspaper Archives (1865–1931) at Genealogy Bank
• Newspaper Archive North Dakota
• North Dakota Newspapers
• Community History Archive : North Dakota Archives; Browse by City
• Web: North Dakota, Select Funeral Home Indexes, 1903-1997, index, incomplete($)
• Names and Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota) at MyHeritage — index & images ($)

History

A few newspapers were published in the Dakota Territory in the 1860s, but most began between 1880 and 1910.

Resources for North Dakota Newspapers

Libraries and Archives

The FamilySearch Library has not acquired copies of North Dakota newspapers but extracts, indexes, and lists might be found for the town or county of interest: [COUNTYor TOWN] - OBITUARIES or [COUNTYor TOWN] - VITAL RECORDS. You may use nationwide lists and inventories to determine the holdings of newspapers in the archives and libraries of North Dakota. The State Historical Society of North Dakota has a large collection.

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

Digital Issues Online

Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives and NDSU Libraries

1. Fargo Forum Newspaper Index (1879-1995) provided by the Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives and NDSU Libraries
2. Fargo Forum Obituary Index provided by the Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives and NDSU Libraries
3. The Record (Historical magazine; 1895-1905)
4. Sanitary Home - North Dakota Farmer and Sanitary Home - North Dakota Farmer magazine

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