Teresa Eckford's Newspaper Talk & Resource List

Newspaper Resources 

Library databases 

British Columbia Historical Newspapers 

Points to the Past - Gale Newspaper Collections 

Ancestry Library Edition - Newspapers and Periodicals (filter by location) 

Other databases (not comprehensive) 

BC Historical Newspapers - UBC Irving K Barber Centre - local newspapers from BC Peel's Prairie Provinces newspapers - University of Calgary 

Free Newspapers Collection - FindMyPast 

Canada Newspapers - FamilySearch Wiki 

Chronicling America - Library of Congress 

Massachusetts Online Historical Newspapers Summary – The Ancestor Hunt Digital Newspapers - OurDigitalWorld (Ontario, Canada).  

LibGuides: Historical Canadian Newspapers Online: Ontario - Bowling Green  State University 

United States Newspapers - FamilySearch Wiki. 

Free Newspapers Collection - British Newspaper Archive 

Google News Archive Search - FREE! 

Newspapers.com - watch for Free Weekends every few months. (Free 7-day Trial) Genealogy Bank (free trial) 

Newspaper Archive (free trial) 

Trove - completely free access to Australian newspapers, directories and other resources Elephind - free newspaper aggregator (search engine) 

Citation Builders 

Cite Builder - generates citations for many types of genealogy sources, including  newspapers 

zoterobib - generates citations for many types of sources 

Teresa's Blog Posts about newspaper research 

Teresa Basińska Eckford. ‘52 Ancestors…Dangerous life of an auctioneer…redux…’, 

writing my past, 9 September 2018. Available at:  

https://writingmypast.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/52-ancestors-dangerous-life-of-an auctioneer-redux/ (Accessed: 8 March 2023). 

Teresa Basińska Eckford. ‘Working with the BC (British Columbia) Historical  Newspapers Collection…’, writing my past, 16 March 2019. Available at:  https://writingmypast.wordpress.com/2019/03/16/working-with-the-bc-british columbia-historical-newspapers-collection/ (Accessed: 8 March 2023). Teresa Basińska Eckford. ‘52 Ancestors…Newsworthy…is this my Mr. Spong?’,  writing my past, 19 July 2020. Available at:  

https://writingmypast.wordpress.com/2020/07/19/52-ancestors-newsworthy-is-this-my mr-spong/ (Accessed: 8 March 2023). 

Teresa Basińska Eckford. ‘Remembering Alfred Henry Spong…the rest of the story…’,  writing my past, 13 November 2020. Available at:  

https://writingmypast.wordpress.com/2020/11/13/remembering-alfred-henry-spong-the rest-of-the-story/ (Accessed: 8 March 2023). 

Teresa Basińska Eckford. ‘Abstracting the details…’, writing my past, 20 September  2021. Available at: https://writingmypast.wordpress.com/2021/09/20/abstracting-the details/ (Accessed: 8 March 2023). 

Teresa Basińska Eckford. ‘How I did it…locating more newspaper stories related to my  ancestors…’, writing my past, 21 June 2021. Available at:  

https://writingmypast.wordpress.com/2021/06/21/how-i-did-it-locating-more newspaper-stories-related-to-my-ancestors/ (Accessed: 8 March 2023). Teresa Basińska Eckford. ‘Newspaper adverts…a rich resource…’, writing my past, 25  July 2021. Available at: https://writingmypast.wordpress.com/2021/07/25/newspaper adverts-a-rich-resource/ (Accessed: 8 March 2023). 

Teresa Basińska Eckford. ‘52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Foundations…’, writing my  past, 4 January 2022. Available at:  

https://writingmypast.wordpress.com/2022/01/04/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks foundations/ (Accessed: 8 March 2023). 

Teresa Basińska Eckford (2022b) ‘Mid-week Genealogy Fun – Favourite genealogy  research resource…’, writing my past, 14 September 2022. Available at:  https://writingmypast.wordpress.com/2022/09/14/mid-week-genealogy-fun-favourite genealogy-research-resource/ (Accessed: 8 March 2023). 

Teresa Basińska Eckford. ‘Searching newspaper collections more methodically…’,  writing my past, 7 October 2022. Available at:  

https://writingmypast.wordpress.com/2022/10/07/searching-newspaper-collections more-methodically/ (Accessed: 8 March 2023). 

Finally, one of my favourite newspaper finds - my great-uncle William took a joy-ride  in a milk van!! (Note: I'm fairly certain the reporter mentioned the incorrect home  address - as far as my mum knows, he never lived outside the home he shared with his mother, who in 1936 lived on Defoe Road. His distinctive name eliminates any chance  of this story being about another person).