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Online Resources

• See United States Newspapers for more databases
• 1778-1938 Rhode Island Newspapers, 1778-1938 at MyHeritage — index ($)
• 1798-1799 - Weekly Companion; and the Commercial Centinel at Google News - free.
• 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)
• 1801-1841 - Rhode-Island Republican at Google News - free.
• Names and Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com (New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut) at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
• Newspaper Archive ($)
• Online Rhode Island Newspapers
• Rhode Island Newspapers Online
• Rhode Island Newspapers, index
• The Rhode Island Historical Society
• Rhode Island, U.S., Newspapers.com Stories and Events Index at Ancestry — index & images ($)

Locating Rhode Island Newspapers

• 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

• Rhode Island Newspapers

• A Guide to Newspaper Indexes in New England ([Holden, Massachusetts]: New England Library Association, 1978) FS Library fiche 6051391; book 974 B32n Digitzed version available through FamilySearch Catalog entry.

Resources for Rhode Island Newspapers

• The Rhode Island Historical Society has copies of virtually all newspapers published in the state. They have some newspaper indexes. The FamilySearch Library has not acquired copies of Rhode Island newspapers.

• 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 FS Library film 908269 item 1 (first of 18 films); microfiche 6046912, book 974.5 V2a Digitized version available through FamilySearch Catalog entry. There are surname indexes in most of the volumes.

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