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Online Resources

• See United States Newspapers for more databases
• 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)
• Minnesota, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index at Ancestry — index ($)
• Minnesota Newspapers, 1902-2009, MyHeritage($)
• Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub
• Minnesota Online Historical Newspapers
• Chronicling America - Minnesota Newspapers
• Minnesota Newspapers, Ancestry.com ($)
• Dalby Database Newspaper Articles
• Minnesota Newspaper Archives (1849 - 1923), GenealogyBank.com($)
• NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Minnesota, index($)
• Newspapers.com - Historical Newspapers in Minnesota, , index ($)
• Minnesota Newspapers
• http://www.mnhs.org/index.htm Minnesota Historical Society
• Names and Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois) at MyHeritage — index & images ($)

History

The first newspapers in Minnesota were published in 1849. The best collection of Minnesota newspapers is at the Minnesota Historical Society Library, which attempts to collect and microfilm all Minnesota newspapers. Many of these records may be loaned to other libraries. Some of the library’s 4,000 different newspapers are especially valuable because they are published by ethnic and religious groups.

Resources for Minnesota Newspapers

Over 4,287 Minnesota newspaper titles containing 4.1 million pages on microfilm are cataloged in the Minnesota Newspaper Project. You can learn what newspapers were published in any Minnesota city on the MnPals Internet site described in Minnesota Archives and Libraries. The Internet address to identify newspapers is:

Newspapers Listed in the PALS Online Catalog. In Minnesota Historical Society [Internet site]. St. Paul, Minnesota: MHS, 1998 [cited 12 January 2000]. Available at: http://sites.mnhs.org/library/content/newspaper-collection. Describes over three million issues of over 5,000 newspapers published in Minnesota since 1849. Microfilm copies of newspapers can be requested through interlibrary loan.

The MNHS also operates the Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub

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.

Published Inventories

For a listing of newspapers at the Minnesota Historical Society Library see:

• Minnesota Historical Society Holdings of Newspapers on Master Negative Microfilm: February 1987. St. Paul, Minnesota: MHS, 1987. (FamilySearch Library film 1490151.) The films do not circulate to FamilySearch Centers. Newspapers are listed alphabetically by town or city, name of newspaper, beginning and ending dates, number or microfilm rolls, and whether it is available for purchase. Other states and countries are listed at the end.

Digital Issues Online

• NewspaperArchive ($) has a some digitized Minnesota newspapers online. This database is sometimes free at libraries. It may be under the name Access NewspaperArchive.

• Chronicling America has some historical issues for the state of Minnesota online.

FamilySearch Library

The FamilySearch Library acquires obituaries, indexes, and other newspaper abstracts. A guide to early Minnesota newspapers is:

• Hage, George Sigrud. Newspapers on the Minnesota Frontier, 1849–1860. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society, 1967. (FamilySearch Library book 977.6 B3m.) This book contains a historical study and list of newspapers from 1849 to 1860, when the telegraph reached Minnesota.

To find newspapers check the Locality Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:

MINNESOTA – NEWSPAPERS

MINNESOTA, [COUNTY] – NEWSPAPERS

MINNESOTA, [COUNTY], [TOWN] – NEWSPAPERS

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