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Online Resources

The usage of "Mormon" and "LDS" on this page is approved according to current policy.

• See United States Newspapers for more databases
• 1800-Current Arizona, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's-current at Ancestry — index ($)
• 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)
• 1866-2009 Arizona Newspapers, 1866-2009 at MyHeritage - index & images ($)
• Arizona Digital Newspaper Program at Arizona Memory Project
• Arizona Online Historical Newspapers
• Chronicling America - Arizona Newspapers on line
• Arizona Newspapers at Ancestry ($)
• The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection
• Arizona Newspaper Archives (1859 - 1977) at GenealogyBank ($)
• Arizona Newspapers
• Arizona, Mesa LDS FamilySearch Center, Obituary Index, 1959-2014; index — How to Use this Collection
• State of Arizona Obituary and Death Notices Collections at GenealogyBuff.com — index
• NewspaperArchive.com ($) has a collection of digitized Arizona newspapers online. This database is free at some libraries under the name AccessNewspaperArchive.
• Graham Guardian Newspaper (Safford, Ariz.) 1895-1923 is available for searching Online. Click Browse Issues tab.
• Mohave County Miner Newspaper (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918 is also available.
• Safford Rattler (Safford, Ariz.) 1896-189? is available Online.
• Arizona Digital Newspaper Program at Arizona Memory Project. Search Arizona historical newspapers online.
  
• University of Arizona, University Libraries, Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press
• Digital Archives of the Casa Grande Public Library
• Densho Digital Archive, Gila News - Courier, published by the inmates at the Gila River concentration camp, Arizona, from 1942 to 1945.
• Arizona Memory Project -- you may have to dig a little to find the newspaper collections
• Little Cowpuncher, Rural School Newspaper of Southern Arizona
• Names and Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Nebraska) at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
• Special Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries
• Northern Arizona University Cline Library Special Collections and Archives

Resources for Arizona Newspapers

Libraries and Archives

The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records has copies of newspapers dating from 1860. The Arizona State University Library, University of Arizona Library and large public libraries also have good collections of Arizona newspapers. The FamilySearch Library has not acquired copies of the papers. A guide to locating early newspapers from the territorial era is:

Estelle Lutrell, Newspapers and Periodicals of Arizona, 1859-1911. Tucson, Arizona: University of rizona,1950. (FamilySearch Library book 979.1 B2).

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.

Indexes

• The Arizona Republic provides a free online obituary search database from 2002 to the present at: Obituaries Arizona Central
• The Mesa Public Library will perform an obituary search for persons whose obituary appeared in the Arizona Republic from 28 May 1890 to 31 December 2009. Exact death date must be included. Request forms are available on their website: Mesa Public Library

Websites

• Chronicling America
• NewspaperArchive ($)

“Current” indicates records are available as recently as privacy laws allow. This date can change from year to year. To determine the exact dates available, contact the respective organization/repository.

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