Genealogy Resources: Newspapers

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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

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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:

• Online Databases
• Printed Indexes and Abstracts
• Microfilm
• Original