-
A New Way to Search
Today, we’re excited to release Newspaper Finder’s Catalog feature! Think of the catalog as a complement to the map: while the map excels at providing geographic context, the catalog is designed for targeted searching. Users can now search for newspapers by title and town, with results displayed in a sortable table. Searching by Title Many…
-
April 2026 — Update
As part of our official launch, we’ve completed a full refresh of every provider in the Newspaper Finder database. We’ve added 9,433 new newspaper listings, along with 696 locations that now have newspaper coverage for the first time. In practical terms, that means hundreds of places that previously returned no results now have at least…
-
Official Launch
In 2023, we set out to build a database of every digitized newspaper available online. Since then, we’ve been working behind the scenes, refining the data and the experience before sharing it widely. At RootsTech 2026, the plan was simple: quietly introduce Newspaper Finder to a small group of people and see what happened. One…
