Historic Long Island Newspapers
-- Searchable or browseable newspapers, portions of newspapers, and selected collections
- Suffolk Historic Newspapers [1839-2007] (A Cooperative project of Suffolk Cooperative Librrary System, participating Member Libraries, and Associated Institutions) - currently includes runs of 8 historic weekly newspapers of Suffolk County, NY, either simultaneously or individually searchable. These include the: (1) Sag Harbor, NY's Corrector 1839-71; (2) Huntington, NY's Long Islander, 1839-1960 (Walt Whitman was once editor); (3) Babylon, NY's South Side Signal, 1869-79; (4) Cutchogue, NY's later Southold, NY's Long Island Traveler, 1872-98; (5) Sag Harbor Express, 1885-98; (6) Port Jefferson Echo, 1892-1931; Sayville's Suffolk County News, 1888-1942 & 1997-2007 (the official County newspaper); (8) Patchogue, Patchogue Advance, 1927-1948; and (9) Medford Station, NY's Mid-Island Mail, 1935-41.
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online, 1841-1902 (Brooklyn Public Library. Brooklyn Collection) - this covered not only Brooklyn, but Long Island communities from Brooklyn to Montauk & Orient, and points in-between; rewards searching; Brooklyn Public Library is working on the post-1902 sequel, in which a growing number of pages per issue were involved.
- Selected Subjects. Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online, 1841-1902 (Brooklyn Public Library. Brooklyn Collection), clickable subject areas, listed from A to W
- Local History (East Hampton Star) - interesting selection of historical articles, primarily from 1998, in celebration of East Hampton's 350th anniversary, also including place name oddities, per issue; well worth browsing
- Patchogue, L.I., N.Y. in the Spanish-American War (and Its Immediate Aftermath) [Patchogue Advance, Jan.-Dec. 1898] - selected articles and bibliography, courtesy of the Long Island Advance (Patchogue-Medford Library) - searchable using Control + F(ind).
- Collections of Long Island Newspapers (Long Island Library Resources Council. Long Island Memories) - Nassau County: The Observer, Farmingdale Observer, Farmingdale Post (Farmingdale, NY); Daily Review of Nassau County, Freeport News, South Side Messenger, Queens County Review, Nassau County Review, Nassau Post, The Leader
- Long Island Newspapers (Stony Brook University Libraries. Online Resources. Research Websites)
-- Genealogically-oriented newspaper indexes
- Index to Birth, Marriage, and Death Announcements in the Long Island Advance [1879-1921], ed. by Toni Raptis (Patchogue-Medford Library)
- Suffolk-Times Obituary Index, 1910-2003, comp. by Jeffrey M.Walden, Head of Reference, Mattitick-Laurel Library (LIGenealogy.com) - searchable by decade or surname
-- New York State-level holdings
- Suffolk County (NY) Newspapers on Microfilm and Paper at All NYS Locations (New York State Library. New York State Newspapers)
- Nassau County (NY) Newspapers on Microfilm at NYSL (New York State Library. New York State Newspapers)
- Queens County (NY) Newspapers on Microfilm at NYSL (New York State Library. New York State Newspapers)
- Kings County (NY) Newspapers on Microfilm at NYSL (New York State Library. New York State Newspapers)
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