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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 ($)
• 1847-2009 California Newspapers, 1847-2009 - at MyHeritage, index & images ($)
• Small Town Newspapers
• California Online Historical Newspapers
• California Digital Newspaper Collection
• Chronicling America California Digitized Newspapers
• California Online Historical Newspapers
• California Newspapers ($)
• GenealogyBank.com California Newspaper Archives, 1846-2007 Index.
• California, Oakland, Alameda County, Newspaper Record Collection, 1985-2011 at FamilySearch; Index cards — How to Use this Collection
• California Newspapers
• California, U.S., Newspapers.com Stories and Events Index at Ancestry — index & images ($)
• California newspapers at NewspaperArchive.com ($)
• California newspapers at GenealogyBank.com
• Chronicling America
• California Digital Newspaper Collection - California Newspaper Project
• Names and Stories in Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (California, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands) at MyHeritage — index & images ($)

Resources for California Newspapers

Several guides and union lists of newspapers are available at university, college, and public libraries. A guide to early California newspapers is J. Budenz, Paul J. Smith, and J.H. Young, comps., Early Newspapers and Periodicals of California and the West (San Francisco, California: W. R. Howell, 1970; FamilySearch Library book 979.4 A3b; film 1421815 item 8).

Libraries and Archives

The California State Library has an extensive collection of California newspapers. Other large libraries in the state also have newspaper collections. Many newspapers are available on microfilm, and some libraries participate in inter-library loan services.

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

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