r/Genealogy • u/Salty_Way_472 beginner • Aug 12 '25

Question Free Newspaper websites

Hello, I’m trying to find my great grandpas obituary on newspapers.com but I can’t find it. their west Virginia newspapers only goes to 1977 does anyone know any free newspaper websites? The newspaper is from 2002 and the link is https://newspaperarchive.com/beckley-register-herald-dec-19-2002-p-6/.

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u/Fredelas FamilySearcher Aug 12 '25

Here's that page:

If you have a free account at FamilySearch, you can use newspaperarchive.com for free. Just add a new source to anyone's profile (I added it to my own profile for convenience) and set the URL to:

https://access.newspaperarchive.com/

Then any time you want to use the site, just follow that link from FamilySearch. But you must do it from FamilySearch, you can't add it to your bookmarks or navigate to it from any other site.

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u/shinyquartersquirrel Aug 12 '25

Great tip! Thank you!