Update

Approximately 85,000 pages of pre-2005 newspapers from 12 communities around the state have been added to Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers.
 

The newspaper digitization was made possible through Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds awarded to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) as well as funding provided by the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC). WPLC worked with the Wisconsin Historical Society, WiLS, a non-profit membership organization serving libraries and cultural organizations across Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA) to scan, upload, and host the content on Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers.
 

Wisconsin residents now have access the following historical newspapers from Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers:

• Baraboo Republic (Baraboo) 12/16/1858-4/21/1886

• Brodhead Independent (Brodhead) 2/27/1861-8/30/1900

• Hartland News / Hartland News and Dairyman (Hartland) 9/22/1894-12/25/1920

• Jefferson County Union (Lake Mills) 3/24/1870-6/27/1890

• New London Press/Press of Waupaca and Outagamie County (New London) 7/20/1893-12/26/1906

• New London Times (New London) 10/3/1856-4/161858, 1/18/1879-9/11/1891

• Prairie du Chien Leader (Prairie du Chien) 7/18/1857-7/19/1860

• Prairie du Chien Union (Prairie du Chien) 3/18/1864-10/22/1896

• Rib Lake Herald (Rib Lake) 1/3/1902-6/25/1920

• Tri-County Record (Kiel) 10/10/1918-12/26/1940

• Waupun Times (Waupun) 9/17/1857-10/2/1883

• Yellow River Pilot (Pittsville) 11/5/1897-10/14/1904

• Sugar River Recorder/Belleville Recorder (Belleville) 12/20/1889-12/30/1904
   

From the Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers, click on Search Historical Newspapers to search this recently-launched collection. Based on the success of this pilot, the project partners will continue to work together to bring more historical newspapers online. For more information about how your library can participate, visit http://www.wplc.info/newspapers.

For the last four decades the Library-Archives Division of the Wisconsin Historical Society has been working on collecting, processing, and scanning records from across Wisconsin. These records are the product of a collaborative partnership with FamilySearch, Ancestry, the state court system, and other institutions.  

“Having access to [these] records online is very critical and important to family history research,” said Matt Blessing, Administrator for the Division of Library, Archives and Museum Collections for the Wisconsin Historical Society. Having digitized, searchable, online records allows amateur and professional researchers and genealogists to have easy access to primary sources that decode the past. 

The Family History Records put together by WHS includes:

• Wisconsin, State Censuses, 1895 and 1905
• Wisconsin, Birth Index, 1820-1907
• Wisconsin, Deaths, 1820-1907
• Wisconsin, Marriage Index, 1820-1907
• Wisconsin, Wills and Probate Records, 1800-1987

The collection is hosted by Ancestry and access to the Wisconsin specific records is available to Wisconsin residents through BadgerLink, Wisconsin’s Online Library. To access the records, Wisconsin residents may need to log in to BadgerLink using a Wisconsin public library card.

“BadgerLink’s purpose is to provide quality online resources to Wisconsin residents, and the partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, providing access to this Wisconsin-centric collection is a great opportunity for both organizations to further our goals and provide Wisconsin residents with great online resources.” said Martha Berninger, director of Resources for Libraries and Lifelong Learning. 

On Thursday September 29th at 10am, participate in a free Genealogy Class to learn how to use Wisconsin Historical Society Family History Records, and stay tuned for additional training materials from the Wisconsin Historical Society and BadgerLink.

If your organization restricts system access to particular IP addresses - also known as “whitelisting,” read on for information about changes coming from EBSCO and how you may be affected.

BadgerLink, Wisconsin’s Online Library, subscribes to many EBSCO databases (https://badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/ebsco) which your patrons, students, and staff may be using for research. In an effort to provide the best possible response times to these subscriptions and services, in July 2016, EBSCO is making adjustments to their technical infrastructure. To accomplish this, the services will be delivered from a much larger range of IP addresses and they will no longer be able to provide a list of the IP addresses used by their servers.

Organizations who utilize whitelists will need to change their configurations to utilize domain names instead. An updated list of domains is available here:http://support.ebsco.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=966&t=h. This page is also included in the BadgerLink Set-Up Guide.

Contact BadgerLink at https://badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/contact-us if you have any questions.

BadgerLink's authentication provider, AutoGraphics, will push out updates on June 27th between 9 p.m. and 12 a.m. During the updates, there may be downtime to BadgerLink's resources and Super Search, but the BadgerLink website and any related training materials will still be available. 

Please contact us if you have any questions!

The BadgerLink’s authentication provider will be running maintenance on their servers tonight, starting at 11 p.m. There will be some down time to the resources and our Super Search, but no longer than 1 hour. The BadgerLink website and any related training materials will still be available. 

Sorry for any inconvenience, and please contact us if you have any questions!

The BadgerLink authentication provider will be running updates to the system Wednesday, June 1st beginning at 10 p.m. There will be some down time to the resources and our Super Search, but no longer than about 2 hours. The BadgerLink website and any related training materials will still be available. 

Sorry for any inconvenience, and please contact us if you have any questions!

The Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers is currently experiencing an outage. At this time, we have not received any information regarding an anticipated end time for the outage.

We will post updates as they are available. Sorry for any inconvenience, and please contact us if you have any questions.

Update: As of 8am on Wednesday, 5/25, the resource is once again back up and running. Thanks for your patience, everyone!

The BadgerLink authentication provider will be running updates to the system Monday, May 23rd beginning at 9 p.m. There will be some downtime to the resources and our Super Search, but no longer than 2-3 hours. The BadgerLink website and any related training materials will still be available. 

The BadgerLink authentication provider will be running updates to the system Monday, April 25th beginning at 9 p.m. There will be some downtime to the resources and our Super Search, but no longer than 2-3 hours. The BadgerLink website and any related training materials will still be available. 

Sorry for any inconvenience, and please contact us if you have any questions!

The Access NewspaperARCHIVE support team has confirmed a partial outage due to a server issue. They are anticipating the full collection to be available as early as Monday, April 4th. 

We apologize for any inconvenience during this time. You may be able to locate your desired articles in one of our other newspaper resources. A full list is available here: http://www.badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/newspapers. 

As always, please contact us if you have any questions!