New Links on Online Newspaper Archives Page

I am a huge fan of newspapers for family history research.  Newspapers can give you information on births, marriages, divorces, deaths, jobs, military service, court cases, and more.  I have been teaching classes on using online newspapers for a few years now, and one of my favorite resources to tell people about is the Wikipedia page for online newspaper archives.  This page is a portal with links to other sites with digitized newspapers, abstracts, and indices.  The links are sorted by country (and in some cases are broken down further by state or province), and there are also links to multicountry and informational sites.  And most of the sites are free!  This is one of the first places you should look when you are checking to see if newspapers in a given area are available online.

Because the page is on Wikipedia, everyone can contribute links to new resources when you find them.  I add information on a regular basis.  The latest links I added are:
• Australia: Police Gazette of Western Australia from 1876-1900
• Cyprus: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee archive of newspapers published between 1947-1949 by Holocaust survivors detained on Cyprus
• Scotland: Word on the Street, broadsides from 1650-1910
• Worldwide: Newspaper Abstracts, abstracts and extracts from eight countries

Check for the area you're researching and see what's available online!

Search for Children Born to Jewish Refugees in Cyprus

Yitzhak Teutsch, director of the Joint Distribution Committee's archives in Jerusalem, is trying to document more than 2,000 babies born to Jewish refugees in camps in Cyprus between 1946 and 1949.  He is researching in many archives to try to create a full list of names.

Between 1946 and 1949, several thousand Jews who tried to immigrate to Israel were deported to twelve detention camps in Cyprus.  Almost all were survivors of Nazi death camps.  Many children were born in the detention camps, but complete records of these births seem not to exist.  Teutsch has taken it upon himself to create a comprehensive list of the births.  He is also making contact with many of the Cyprus-born children.

The story of Teutsch's research is available in Hebrew and in English.