Rhode Island Newspapers: Difference between revisions

Newspapers provide valuable genealogical information, including obituaries, marriage announcements, biographical sketches, divorce notices, and so forth. Other personal information may be included in various sections of a newspaper. Rhode Island's first newspaper was published in 1732.

===Locating Rhode Island Newspapers ===

*The [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles 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  

*[http://www.50states.com/news/rdisl.htm Rhode Island Newspapers

*''A Guide to Newspaper Indexes in New England'' ([Holden, Massachusetts]: New England Library Association, 1978) {{FHL|19737|item|disp=FHL fiche 6051391; book 974 B32n}}  

*The [http://www.rihs.org/printcoll.htm Rhode Island Historical Society] has copies of virtually all newspapers published in the state. They have some newspaper indexes. The Family History Library has not acquired copies of Rhode Island newspapers.  

*[[Rhode Island Vital Records|Marriage and death notices]] for 1758 to 1833 from several major Rhode Island newspapers have been published in volumes 12 to 21 of James N. Arnold, ''Vital Records of Rhode Island 1636-1850'' {{FHL|297884|item|disp=FHL film 908269 item 1 (first of 18 films); microfiche 6046912, book 974.5 V2a}} Digitized version available through FHL catalog entry. There are surname indexes in most of the volumes.