Nineteenth Century US Newspapers is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building and from home for SLWA members. It includes hundreds of urban and rural newspapers from throughout the United States.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001876~S2
17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building and from home for SLWA members. It is a collection of newspapers, pamphlets and parliamentary papers originally collected by the Reverend Charles Burney. The material was published in England, Ireland and Scotland with some from British colonies in Asia and the Americas.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1000327~S2
Gale News Vault is a subscription site which is available to use for no charge within the State Library of Western Australia building or from home for SLWA members. It offers combined searching of 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, 19th Century British Newspapers, Times Digital Archive and the Illustrated London News.
http://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=e1001932~S2
Search newspapers available online.
http://news.google.com/newspapers
Digitised Californian newspapers covering 1846 to the present.
http://cdnc.ucr.edu
This database, which is part of the Library of Congress website, has digitised American newspapers 1836-1922.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
A searchable database of advertisements placed in the Boston Pilot newspaper for missing friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States 1831-1921. There are over 37,000 records and many of them give details of place of origin and other family members.
http://infowanted.bc.edu
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from 1841-1955 and again from 1960-1963. This website has digitised issues from 1841-1902 and you can search by keyword or browse by publication date.
http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.or...t/Skins/BEagle/Client.asp?Skin=BEagle
Searchable database of the New York Times archives. Use advanced search to specify a particular date range. Archives are free for the period 1851-1922 and 1987 to the present.
http://www.nytimes.com