Michigan Newspapers

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See United States Newspapers for more databases
1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)
1800-Current Michigan, U.S., Newspapers.com™ Stories and Events Index, 1800's-current at Ancestry — index & images ($)
1817-1995 Michigan Newspaper Archives (1817 - 1995) at Genealogy Bank ($)
1817-2009 Michigan Newspapers, 1817-2009 at MyHeritage ($)
1820-2006 Michigan Obituaries, 1820-2006 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
Michigan Online Historical Newspapers
Michigan Newspapers at Ancestry - ($)
Names and Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com (Ohio, Indiana, Michigan) at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
Northern Michigan, Newspaper Surname Index at Ancestry - index & images ($)
Chronicling America
Digital Michigan Newspaper Portal at Clarke Historical Library
List of Michigan Newspapers
List of Michigan Newspapers

Resources

A newspaper pool has been organized by the Library of Michigan, Detroit Public Library, and other institutions to gather and microfilm all known Michigan newspapers. These microfilms are available to public and university libraries that participate in interlibrary loan. A description of the state's newspapers is in the Fall-Winter, 1971–72, issue of Family Trails (see the "Periodicals" section).

Libraries and Archives

Newspapers in the Library of Michigan in Lansing are listed on their web site.

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/hal/lm_AH_Newspapers_277355_7.pdf

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.

Digital Issues Online

Wikipedia has more about this subject: List of online newspaper archives

NewspaperArchive.com ($) has a large collection of Michigan newspapers online. This database is sometimes free at libraries under the name AccessNewspaperArchive.

Indexes

Link, Muriel. Obituaries Index, 1933–1948. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1976. (FamilySearch Library films 1002031–44.) This index contains clippings from various Michigan newspapers.

The Historical Records Survey (Michigan). Vital Records from the Detroit Free Press 1831–1868. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973. (FamilySearch Library films 927477–79.) (Worldcat)

Marriage and death newspaper notices, Wayne County, Michigan, 1809-1868: newspaper notices from Michigan newspapers at the Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, by Marguerite Novy Lambert & James Jackson.

Death and Marriage Items Abstracted from the Lansing State Republican 1861-1871 and Some Divorces and Name Changes Noted in the Michigan Territorial and State Laws, by Donald J. deZeeuw, Fern Lawhead deZeeuw and Ruth Whipple Kapphahn, Occasional Paper #9, Jan 1978.

Our Sunday Visitor : 100 Years of Religious Growth, 1853-1953 : Official Newspaper of the Diocese of Marquette, by J. William Gorski

Obituaries 2000 to 2009, the Citizen, Hamtramck, Michigan, compiled by J. William Gorski.

Is Your Ancestor Listed in Here? : an Index to Obituaries, Memoriams, and Cards of Thanks, Covering Much of the Northern Tier of Kent County with a Few from other Areas of Michigan, compiled and indexed by Betty L. Heiss.