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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 ($)
• 1855-2009 Washington Newspapers, 1855-2009 at MyHeritage - index & images ($)
• Chronicling America Washington Digitized Newspapers
• Washington Online Historical Newspapers
• Washington Newspapers ($)
• Legacy Washington Historic Newspapers
• Names and Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming) at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
• Washington Newspaper Archives (1854 - 1984),GenealogyBank.com ($)
• Newspaper Abstracts - Finding Our Ancestors in the News! - Washington
• NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Washington ($)
• Newspapers.com - Historical Newspapers in Washington ($)
• Washington Newspapers
• Historic Newspapers online at Washington Secretary of State. Select a Newspaper and View About 25 early newspapers from various areas of Washington.
• Washington Secretary of State website
• Washington State Library

Locating Washington Newspapers

• Historic Newspapers online at Washington Secretary of State. Select a Newspaper and View About 25 early newspapers from various areas of Washington.

• Washington Online Historic Newspapers - Identifies historical newspapers available online at both free and pay-to-access websites.

• Washington State Library Catalog Select a county from the map for an extensive list of newspapers. Mostly on microfilm.

• 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

• A guide for locating early newspapers is "Newspapers of Washington Territory to 1890." This was published in Volume 13 (1922), Volume 14 (1923), and Volume 26 (1935) of the Washington Historical Quarterly FS Catalog books 979 B2pn

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FamilySearch Library

The FamilySearch Library has not acquired copies of newspapers for Washington, but has a few published vital records abstracted from newspapers. To access these records available through the FamilySearch Catalog, use the Place-names Search for:

• WASHINGTON - NEWSPAPERS
• WASHINGTON, [COUNTY] - NEWSPAPERS
• WASHINGTON, [COUNTY], [TOWN] - NEWSPAPERS

Washington State Library

The Washington State Library is in charge of the Washington State Newspaper Microfilm Project and maintains on film a large collection of newspapers dating from the 1870s. A guide to this collection is Katryn S. Hamilton, Newspapers on Microfilm in the Washington State Library (Olympia: Washington State Library, 1980; not at FamilySearch Library).

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