The Newspapers & Periodicals Collection lets you discover a wealth of information about your ancestors from many historical newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals. Newspapers often picked up stories and obituaries in former hometowns and in places where other family members lived. Newspapers can be used to find valuable genealogical information about historical events in the lives of our ancestors. Old newspapers make a powerful tool for genealogical research. So no matter where your ancestors lived, chances are good there are more than just a few stories of your descendants. You may then search through over two billion articles from all 50 states, dated from 1960 to today. Don’t limit your search to your ancestor’s hometown paper. With every search, our newspaper archive search engine combs the entire newspaper for keyword matches including images found within articles. Don't limit your search to just one newspaper. Sometimes, your direct ancestor won't be named at all, but you will be able to find something published about their children, parents, spouses, or siblings. Historical newspapers give us the remarkable ability to see history through eyewitness accounts. Small town dailies are often the only place where the lives of so many are so closely detailed. Very often, when we research our ancestors, we dwell over the fact that we're unable to trace a birth certificate or some other personal record. (If you don't know what newspapers existed for your ancestor's hometown, check out my post on how to identify those.) Whoever they were chances are there’s an article or photo (or more!) Searching through our archives of newspapers isn't complicated. Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish, View sample images and collection details, England, Southern Railway Magazine: Jan 1840 - Feb 1942, Irish Independent Newspaper Obituaries: May 2001-June 2002, The Gentleman's Magazine Library, 1731-1868, The Liverpool Courier (Liverpool, Lancashire, England), Edinburgh Advertiser (Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland), The Bristol Times And Mirror (Bristol, Gloucestershire, England), Liverpool Daily Post (Liverpool, Lancashire, England), Australia and New Zealand, Obituary Index, 2004-Current, New York, Jewish Holocaust Survivor Names printed in Aufbau Newspaper, 1944-1946, Operated by Ancestry Ireland Unlimited Company. GenealogyBank is the largest and fastest growing newspaper archive for genealogy and family history research. Find historical obituaries dating back to 1690 and recent obituaries starting in 1977 to uncover your ancestry. The Newspapers & Publications Collection lets you discover a wealth of information about your ancestors from many historical newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals. Newspapers cover events like WW1 and the civil war or the worldwide flu epidemic that lasted from 1917-1919.