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Genealogical Indexes and Abstracts of Newspapers: 1900-1949

Use this guide to find indexes to genealogical information in Newspapers. These indexes are located in our Genealogical Research Room unless otherwise indicated. Please note this does note reflect the holdings of our newspaper collection.

1900-1949

 

1670-1929   Calvert Co., Maryland, family records: church & newspaper records, tombstone inscriptions, family Bible records, court house marriage & birth records--over 10,000 names.

Call number: 929.3 M3c O13c

1775-1906   Jewish marriage notices from the newspaper press of Charleston, S.C.

Call number: 929.3 S7 E52j

1792-1900   Knox County, Tennessee marriage records

Call number: 929.3 T2k D222k

1797-1999   African-American records: Bracken County, Kentucky

Call number: 929.3 K3br A258

1807-1919   The news from Milan, Rhine, and Old Telfair (GA)

Call number: 929.3 G3do E92nm

1815-1906   Abstracts of marriages and deaths of extant Washington, N.C.

Call number: 929.3 N8b A164

1818-1903   Darien, Georgia, newspaper clippings

Call number: 929.3 G3ma E92d

1824-1904   Georgia newspaper clippings, Crawford County extracts

Call number: 929.3 G3cra E92g

1825-1935   Spreading the word: Mississippi newspaper abstracts of genealogical interest

Call number: 929.3 M7 R143s

1830-1940   Index to obituaries and death notices in surviving Rutherford County, North Carolina newspapers

Call number: 929.3 N8ru G326

1832-1907   Georgia newspaper clippings, Sumter County extracts

Call number: 929.3 G3su E92g

1854-1906   Death and marriage notices from Jefferson County, Alabama newspapers

Call number: 929.3 A3je C381d

(v. 1) 1860-1948 / (v.2) 1859-1935   Afro-American death notices from eastern North Carolina newspapers

Call number: 929.3 N8 M969a

1861-1912   Horry County marriages abstracted from newspapers   (SC)

Call number: 929.3 S7ho H8165 

1861-1914   Obituaries from Horry County newspapers   (SC)

Call number: 929.3 S7ho O12

1867-1917    Pulaski County, Georgia, newspaper clippings

Call number: 929.3 G3pu E92p

1869-1918   The news from Chauncey  (GA)

Call number: 929.3 G3do E92n

1873-1928   Dodge County newspaper clippings (GA)

Call number: 929.3 G3do E92d

1874-1881 / 1900-1904   Oglethorpe County, Georgia newspaper extracts: the Oglethorpe echo

Call number: 929.3 G3og M174o5

1875-1906   The Elizabeth City North Carolina "Economist" newspaper (Extant issues)

Call number: 929.3 N8 W723e

1876-1935   Newspaper subject index of Wayne County, Tennessee

Call number: 929.3 T2way N558 1876/1935

1876-1907   Death notices from Reidsville, NC newspapers

Call number: 929.3 N8roc G633d 1876/1907

1878-1911   Laurens County, Georgia newspaper clippings

Call number: 929.3 G3lau E92l

1879-1900   A Trip down memory lane (NC)

* Transcripts & abstracts of articles from The Enterprise for Catawba, Mountain Creek, and Caldwell Townships, NC

Call number: 929.3 N8cat T835

1880-1938   Annotated obituaries from the Cherokee Advance, Canton, Georgia

Call number: 929.3 G3che C331a

1882-1920   Burke County folks : the events in their lives as published in The True Citizen   (GA)

Call number: 929.3 G3bur K69b

1884-1901   Cherokee Nation marriages: abstracted from Indian Chieftain newspapers (OK)

Call number: 929.3 O4 B675c

1884-1904   Abstracts of marriages and deaths of extant Washington, NC newspapers, vol. 2 

Call number: 929.3 N8b A164 v. 2 1884/1904

1886-1919   Montgomery County, Georgia, newspaper clippings

Call number: 929.3 G3mon E92m

1887-1906   Marriages and Deaths from Washington, NC newspapers, vol. 3 The Washington Progress  

Call number: 929.3 N8b A164 V. 3 1887/1906

1893-1903   Abstracts of genealogical items from the Yadkin Ripple   (NC)

Call number: 929.3 N8y B893a

1893-1923   Allie Abernathy's scrapbooks: marriages, deaths, and other items from Chambers County, Alabama, newspapers

Call number: 929.3 A3ch A146a

1898-1922   Wilcox County, Georgia, newspaper clippings

Call number: 929.3 G3wi E92w

Late 19th-20th century   Births, deaths, and marriages from Timmonsville, S.C. newspapers

Call number: 929.3 S7fl D313b

1900-1907   The Sylvan Valley news (NC)

Call number: 929.3 N8t B847s

1900-1907   Obituaries from the Gold Leaf : Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina

Call number: 929.3 N8v M969o

1900-1916   Newspaper death notices from the Landmark

Call number: 929.3 N81 B627n

1900-1949   Transylvania Obituaries 

Call number: 929.3 N8t P724t (2 vols.)

1904-1925    Newspaper death notices from the Enterprise, Mooresville, North Carolina

Call number: 929.3 N8i B627new

1905-1910 / 1914-1915   Gleanings from the French Broad Hustler : Hendersonville, North Carolina

Call number: 929.3 N8he W874g

1907-1910 Cherokee County News Tidbits (SC)

1909-1917   The News Dispatch, Clinton, North Carolina Obituaries

Call number: 929.3 N8s M969n

1910-1950   Death notices from the Pageland journal of Chesterfield County, South Carolina

Call number: 929.3 S7chest P631d

1913-1920   Kershaw, South Carolina and surrounding area : abstracts from the Kershaw Era and the Camden Chronicle

Call number: 929.3 S7k M169k

1914-1918   Virginia war history in newspaper clippings

Call number: 975.504 D261vh

1915, 1918, & 1919   Creedmoor-Times News: Creedmoor, Granville County, NC Obituaries 1915, 1918 &1919

Call number: 929.3 N8gra M969c

1915-1976   Abstracts of obituaries in newspapers of Stokes County, North Carolina

Call number: 929.3 N8sto B787a

1917-1925   Pearson, Georgia, newspaper clippings

Call number: 929.3 G3at R337p

1919-1927   Obituaries from the Elizabeth City Independent, Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina

Call number: 929.3 N8pa M969o

1919-1994 Carolina County, Virginia Death Records from The Caroline Progress

Call number: TBA

1920-1948   Beaufort News, Beaufort, NC : obituaries (6 vols.)

Call number: 929.3 N8car M969b 

1926-1941   Hyde County Messenger: Fairfield, NC, Obituaries

Call number: 929.3 N8hy M969h 1926/41

1929-1947   Some old obituaries of Cleveland Co., North Carolina 

* Most obituaries were taken from The Shelby star, between 1929-1947

Call number: 929.3 N8cle S693

1935     Lincoln Times, city 150th birthday   (NC)

Call number: 975.6782 D381l  

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