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The Waco Genealogy Center has a variety of historic Waco newspapers available on microfilm. The following list is a synopsis of what is available. Please note that some dates may be missing within the years mentioned.
(Waco) Weekly Telegraph 1856-1860
Waco Daily Examiner 1874-1878; 1881-1888
(Waco) Weekly Examiner & Patron 1875; 1878
The Day 1884-1890
Waco Daily News 1887-1891
Waco Evening News 1888-1889; 1891-1894
Waco Weekly News 1889-1893
The Gossip 1892-1893
Artesia 1893-1900
Waco Morning Times 1895-1896
Waco Morning News 1895; 1911-1918
Brann's Iconoclast 1895-1898
Waco Daily Globe 1893
Waco Semi-Weekly News 1893
Waco Times Herald 1898-1973
Waco Weekly Tribune 1905
Waco Semi-Weekly Tribune 1905-1916
Waco Daily Tribune 1907
Cotton Palace Boll 1916
Waco News Tribune 1919-1973
Waco Farm & Labor 1931
Waco Record 1934-1949
Waco Citizen 1956-2006
Waco Tribune Herald (Morning & Evening editions 1973-1981) 1973-current
The Waco Genealogy Center has a variety of newspapers from smaller communities predominately in Central Texas available on microfilm. The following list is a synopsis of what is available. Please note that some dates may be missing within the years mentioned.
Burnet Bulletin 2007-2014
Cameron Herald 1906-1951; 1953-2009
Coolidge Herald 1918; 1925-1926; 1954; 1957-1958; 1961-1962; 1964-1965; 1968
Copperas Cove Courier 1959-1963; 1967; 1975-1976
Copperas Cove Leader 1978-1980
Copperas Cove Leader Press 1995-2005
Copperas Cove Press 1968-1994
Crockett Courier 1890-1901
Fairfield Recorder 1944-1954; 1957; 1984-2003
Groesbeck Journal 1896-1917; 1919-2013
Hamilton Times 1883-1884
Hamilton Herald 1883-1884; 1886-1887; 1889; 1891-1893; 1895-1896; 1902; 1904-1905; 1907; 1916-1917
Hamilton Progress 1893
Hamilton Rustler 1902; 1904-1907; 1911
Hamilton Record 1912-1922; 1925-1933; 1935-1939; 1941
Hamilton Record & Rustler 1914; 1918
Hamilton County News 1933-1940
Hamilton Herald News 1958-2013
Hamlin Herald 1907; 1912; 1914; 1918
Four County News (Hamlin) 1911-1912
Handley News 1918
Handsford Headlight 1914; 1918
Harlingen Star 1914; 1918; 1924
Harmon News 1904
Hubbard City News 1923-1964
Indianola Bulletin 1852-1854
Kosse Cyclone 1899-1942
Lampasas Chronicle 1859
Lampasas Weekly Dispatch 1871
Lampasas Dispatch 1872; 1877-1878; 1882; 1890
Lampasas Daily Times 1878
Lampasas Leader 1891-1892; 1894; 1904-1907; 1932-1934; 1938-1940
Lampasas Blade 1892-1893; 1904-1906; 1912; 1914; 1918
Marlin Daily Democrat 1897-1964; 1978-1988
Marlin Democrat 1998-2013
Mart Herald 1906-1924; 1930-1940; 1967-1968
Mart Daily Herald 1921-1934
McGregor Mirror 1978-1993; 1995-2001
Moody Courier 1969-2007
Riesel Rustler 1908-2018
Rosebud News 2011
Teague Chronicle 1906-1995
Thorndale Champion 2001-2009
Thornton Hustler 1915
Tiempo 1982-2006
Texian Advocate (Victoria) 1846-1850
West Times 1908-1910
Amerika Espiantisto (West) 1914-1920
West News 1914-2002
Woodville Republican 1823-1827; 1833-1848; 1878-1885; 1891-1901
Woodville Republican & Wilkerson Advertiser 1828-1853
Mississippi Democrat (Woodville, Mississippi)1831
Wortham Journal 1924; 1928-1930; 1933-1934; 1973; 1941-1944; 1947-1951; 1953-1956; 1965; 1978
Resources for using newspapers in genealogical or historical research exist in many forms. Here are a few examples:
This free site provides a searchable database of digitized Texas newspapers.
The Library of Congress provides access to digitized newspapers and the most complete U.S. newspaper directory. Use this site to search papers and find what libraries may have papers that have not yet been digitized.