Archive guide · US
Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
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What it holds
Historic US newspapers 1690s–1963 with OCR text: obituaries, notices, local news
Who runs it, and on what terms
- Provider
- Library of Congress
- Licence for use here
- Public domain (US newspaper pages); LoC metadata CC0
- Attribution
- Cite 'Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.'
- Cost to search
- free
- Terms read
- 2026-09-06
- Official documentation
- https://www.loc.gov/apis/json-and-yaml/
How to search it in Provara
- Historic newspapers: ask Provara for an obituary or a wedding notice by name, place and approximate year.
- Provara searches this archive alongside every other live one, ranks what comes back by how many of the person's recorded facts each hit contains, and shows you the record with a ready citation. Nothing is added to your tree until you confirm it.
Record types here
- Historic newspapers — Obituaries, marriage and birth notices, local news and legal notices. Often the only record of a death date or a maiden name before civil registration.
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