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Early Austrian newspapers used Old Gothic Type (Fraktur). There are resources to assist you in reading this text:
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*[[Germany Handwriting]]
*[https://script.byu.edu/german-handwriting/introduction BYU German Script Tutorial]
*[https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/images/c/ca/German_Gothic_Handwriting_Guide.pdf German Gothic Handwriting Guide] PDF (268 Kb)
 
 
== The Austrian National Library  ==
 
=== Browsing ANNO - Historical Newspaper Archive Online  ===
 
The Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) hosts '''ANNO''' ('''A'''ustria'''N''' '''N'''ewspapers '''O'''nline), a virtual newspaper reading room, There is an alphabetical list of titles already available and in the process of being digitised.
 
You can select a specific newspaper title or choose a date and see all newspapers which published an issue on that date.
 
Most of the newspapers are in the German language. Some are in Italian, Czech or Hungarian.
 
*[https://anno.onb.ac.at/ ANNO Historische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften] (ANNO Historical Newspapers and Magazines) provides alphabetical listing and other information.
 
=== Searching ANNO  ===
 
Some newspapers in this collection have been prepared for full text search which is in Beta version. Nearly 200,000 newspaper issues with nearly 2 million pages of searchable full text are online from 1704 to 1872. This is more than 97 percent of the newspapers located on ANNO up to 1872.
 
The full text is based on an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) data read, an automated process; early issues are printed in the Old Gothic font (Fraktur). As a result in a the quality of text recognition varies. Success in locating a name or place might be increased with the use of wildcards.
 
*[http://anno.onb.ac.at/anno-suche/ ANNO search]
 
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== Current Austrian Newspapers Online  ==
 
A number of newspapers published in Austria have an online presence.
 
*[http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/austria.htm Austrian newspapers online] at Onlinenewspapers.com
 
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Revision as of 14:27, 21 January 2011

Austrian Newspaper site A link which gives many years of newspapers in Wien/Vienna can be found at this link. The paper began in the year 1716.. The link has newspapers for many other Austrian cities and is a real source of valuable information for researchers.

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