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Find obituaries, marriages and local news in indexed, microfilmed and digitized newspapers.
5,600+digitized titles
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Newspaper Index DatabaseNames of Jefferson County residents from local papers on microfilm at Northwest — births, deaths, marriages, probate, divorce. Political, school and many social items aren’t indexed.Search the index ↗Newspapers.com5,600+ papers from the U.S. and abroad, 200M+ pages.Explore ↗NewsBankSt. Louis-area news and obituaries, 1988–today.Open ↗Chronicling AmericaLibrary of Congress: pages from 1789–1963, plus a directory of U.S. papers since 1690.Open ↗Missouri Digital Newspaper ProjectState Historical Society of Missouri — free and keyword-searchable.Open ↗Jefferson County papers on Newspapers.com
Years of coverage for each local title.
Jefferson Democrat
1866–1940
Jefferson Watchman
1883–1884
The Facts
Sept. 1, 1892
De Soto Press
1896–1966
Jefferson Republic
1898–1964
Jefferson County Record
1909–1964
Tri-City Independent
1913–1952
De Soto Times
1915–1918
Festus News
1917–1942
Herculaneum Independent
1917–1918
Jefferson County Press-Times
1918–1964
Festus Press
1934–1936
Daily News-Democrat
1942–1968
Twin-City Advertiser
Dec. 24, 1943
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Microfilm: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1966–2002, at the Northwest Branch.
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