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| New Orleans (Orleans Parish) Louisiana Newspapers New Orleans, as one of the largest cities in the United States in the 19th century, had a variety of political, geographic, and ethnic communities. For this reason, there were many newspapers that served the city throughout its history. Newspapers are an important source for obituaries and death notices as well as news articles. This page presents information on finding New Orleans newspapers online and on microfilm. Online sources for The Times-Picayune The most important newspaper in the history of New Orleans is The Times-Picayune (previously known as The Daily Picayune). For many years it served as the "newspaper of record" for the city. Various years of the newspaper are available from different sources. GenealogyBank (fee-based) has The Times-Picayune, 1837-1988, and many other New Orleans newspapers. These are scans of the original newspapers. See: http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ GenealogyBank also includes many other New Orleans newspapers. See a list here. Suggestions on finding an obituary in GenealogyBank that appeared in The Times-Picayune are available here. NewsBank (free, but requires a Louisiana library card) has The Times-Picayune, 1989 to the present. More recent issues of The Times-Picayune are available through the Louisiana Library Connection. These are individual articles. It can be accessed online IF you have a Louisiana library card number. See: http://lalibcon.state.lib.la.us/ Enter your library card number, log in, and scroll down to NewsBank. Under "My Library's Databases," scroll down to NewsBank and click on it. Scroll to the bottom and click on "Access World News -- Historical and Current." Click on: New Orleans Times Historical (1865-1878) or Times-Picayune Historical and Current Collection (1837-current) Search or browse.
There are other New Orleans newspapers online (free). The New Orleans Bee/ L’Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans (September 1827 to December 1923): http://nobee.jplibrary.net/index.htm Not as comprehensive, but somewhat easier to use are the copies available on Google.com: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=zVX0Cq83Iy8C Some years (1865, 1867, 1870) are here: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Ib8FQH8mdS0C Various years of the Tägliche Deutsche Zeitung (German-language newspaper): Tagliche [sic] Deutsche Zeitung (Dec. 1, 1837 - Oct. 31, 1889) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=aar0OkpPRdAC Tägliche Deutche [sic] Zeitung (May 10, 1854 - Dec. 1, 1857) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=IyMil-iDmu0C New-Orleans Tagliche Deutfche Beitung [sic] (Jan. 1, 1873 - May 14, 1973 [sic]) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=OfCb3DkOstsC New-Orleans Commercial Bulletin (Oct. 15, 1826 - Aug. 3, 1985) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=9u2w3wkYHSMC New Orleans Herald 1911-1922 available online: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064020/issues/ Descriptive information: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064020/ There are New Orleans newspapers on microfilm. New Orleans newspapers are available on microfilm, the greatest number being in the City Archives at the New Orleans Public Library (NOPL). Other microfilmed newspapers are available at the libraries of Tulane University and the University of New Orleans. New Orleans newspapers available on microfilm at the City Archives of the NOPL: https://nolacityarchives.org/newspapers-serials/ New Orleans newspapers and where they are available as described by the Library of Congress: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/titles/places/louisiana/orleans/new_orleans/ Newspapers available through Google: http://news.google.com/newspapers Return to previous page |
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