Do you want to subscribe to a newspaper archive site such as Newspapers.com and just don’t know which one you need, i.e. which one you should pay for? Well, the short answer is that you might need all of them! It depends on the location of the people you are looking for. I did a bit of cataloging that might help you decide what you need for your Aiken and Barnwell South Carolina research.
I compared the newspapers available on four websites.
- Newspapers.com (81 South Carolina papers available)
- Library of Congress (Chronicling America) (122 South Carolina papers available)
- NewspaperArchive.com
- Genealogy Bank (252 South Carolina papers available)
- Accessible Archives (4 colonial South Carolina papers available)
You can browse a list of the papers available on each of these websites, filtered by city and state.
Here is a table that shows what is available on each of the four websites for news in the Aiken/Barnwell/Edgefield area in chronological order. This is only a small selection of the newspapers available for the entire state.
As you can see, not one of the websites has them all! By the way, the Library of Congress collection is FREE!
