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== Resources for Texas Newspapers ==
== Resources for Texas Newspapers ==


Guides to help you locate newspapers are:
=== Libraries and Archives ===


*Sibley, Marilyn McAdams. ''Lone Stars and State Gazettes: Texas Newspapers Before the Civil War''. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1983. {{FHL|204680|item}} 976.4 H2smm
Collections of Texas newspapers are in the archives listed in [[Texas Archives and Libraries]]. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of a few newspapers, such as the Galveston Daily News from 1865 to 1900.
*''Texas Newspapers, 1813-1939: A Union List. Houston: San Jacinto Museum of History Association, 1951''. (Family History Library book 976.4 B3h; 1941 edition is on {{FHL|189076|item}} 1036813 item 4


Some obituaries and other vital statistics have been abstracted and published. An example is:
==== Locating Texas Newspapers ====


*Pearl Hendricks, comp., ''Texas Obituaries: Death Notices Taken From Early Texas Newspapers, 1835-1890''. Two Volumes in 1 typescript at the Clayton Library in Houston. {{FHL|189968|item}} 976.4 V4t; revised version with the dates 1832-1885: {{FHL|239929|item}} 1398600 items 6-7
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.


Use this listing to find the title and location of an ethnic newspaper in which your Texas emigrant ancestor may have appeared:  Texas Newspaper Collection by Ethnic, Religious, Professional or Political Orientation  (Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin)   [http://www.cah.utexas.edu/services/finding_items/newspapers_ethnic.php http://www.cah.utexas.edu/services/finding_items/newspapers_ethnic.php]
To find the title and location of an ethnic newspaper in which your Texas emigrant ancestor may have appeared see [http://www.cah.utexas.edu/services/finding_items/newspapers_ethnic.php Texas Newspaper Collection by Ethnic, Religious, Professional or Political Orientation] (Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin).


=== Libraries and Archives ===
Guide to help you locate newspapers:


Collections of Texas newspapers are in the archives listed in [[Texas Archives and Libraries]]. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of a few newspapers, such as the Galveston Daily News from 1865 to 1900.
*Sibley, Marilyn McAdams. ''Lone Stars and State Gazettes: Texas Newspapers Before the Civil War''. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1983. {{FHL|204680|item}} 976.4 H2smm
 
*''Texas Newspapers, 1813-1939: A Union List. Houston: San Jacinto Museum of History Association, 1951''. (Family History Library book 976.4 B3h; 1941 edition is on {{FHL|189076|item}} 1036813 item 4
==== Newspaper Directory ====
 
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.


=== Digital Issues Online ===
=== Digital Issues Online ===
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=== Indexes ===
=== Indexes ===
Some obituaries and other vital statistics have been abstracted and published in:
:*Pearl Hendricks, comp., ''Texas Obituaries: Death Notices Taken From Early Texas Newspapers, 1835-1890''. Two Volumes in 1 typescript at the Clayton Library in Houston. {{FHL|189968|item}} 976.4 V4t; revised version with the dates 1832-1885: {{FHL|239929|item}} 1398600 items 6-7


== Web Sites  ==
== Web Sites  ==
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