Newspapers

	•	Cambridge Reporter Newspaper

	•	Woodstock, Oxford County Newspaper Index 1840 - 1929 (Oxford County)

	•	Brantford Expositor. Notices (Brant County)

	•	The Record Newspaper

	•	Obituaries (Current)

	•	Births (Current)

	•	Miscellaneous Obituaries

Berliner Journal & Chronicle Data (downloadable PDF Files)

	•	1856 Births

	•	1856 Marriages

	•	1857 Marriages

	•	1857 Deaths (Berlin Chronicle)

	•	1858 Marriages (Berlin Chronicle)

	•	1858 Deaths (Berlin Chronicle)

	•	1859 Deaths (Berlin Chronicle)

	•	1859-1872 Births

	•	1860 Deaths

	•	1860-72 Births

	•	1860-1872 Marriages A to E

	•	1860-1872 Marriages S to Z

	•	1873-1877 Births

	•	1873-1877 Deaths

	•	1873-1877 Marriages

	•	1878 Marriages

	•	1879 Births

	•	1879 Marriages

	•	1880 Marriages

	•	1881 Deaths

	•	1881 Births

	•	1881 Deaths

	•	1882 Births

	•	1882 Deaths

	•	1882 Marriages

	•	1883 Births

	•	1883 Marriages

	•	1884 Births

	•	1884 Deaths

	•	1885 Births

	•	1884 Marriages

	•	1885 Marriages

	•	1885 Deaths

	•	1886 Births

	•	1887 Births

	•	1887 Deaths

	•	1887 Marriages

	•	1889 Births

	•	1890 Deaths

	•	1891 Deaths

	•	1892 Births

	•	1893 Births

	•	1893 Deaths

	•	1896 Births

	•	1896 Deaths

	•	1896 Marriages

The Record (formerly the Kitchener - Waterloo Record) (downloadable PDF Files)

	•	1999 Deaths

	•	2000 Deaths January to May

	•	2000 Deaths May to August

	•	2001 Deaths June to September

	•	2001 Deaths September to December

Newspaper Holdings and Transcribing Progress

List compiled by Frances Hoffman

Abbreviations:

	KPL = Kitchener Public Library, CPL = Cambridge Public Library, (w) = weekly, BMD = Birth, Marriage, Death

Name	Dates of run	Where published	Availability Hard copy or microform	Dates Transcribed	Comments
Ayr News		Ayr	KPL:1904-1960 1962-present
Ayr Recorder (evolution): Ayr News	1880-1895	Ayr
Baden Star	Ca 1912	Baden
Bauernfreund		Waterloo			German language
Beobachter (w)	1849 +	Preston
Berlin Chronicle and Waterloo County Reformers Gazette	Jan 1856-1860	Berlin  In Jan 1860 business moved to waterloo	KPL: 1856-1864, 1898-1922 (incomplete)	KPL: Births-deaths:1856-1860	Hand-written BMD column only No index Arranged by 1st letter. Transcribed by Linda Brown-Kubisch
Berlin Daily News	4 Feb 1878 (later the Daily News Record)	Berlin	KPL:1878, 1879	KPL: BMDs  11 Feb1878-31 Dec 1878  30 Jun 1879-31 Dec 1879	1st Daily paper in Waterloo County, Typed and indexed by KPL
Berlin Daily Record				KPL Feb 1893-Jun 1895	Bur-Mor Index. Trans/typed by Craig Burtch: Bur-Mor  In 14 vols.  No master index.
Berlin Telegraph (w) Evolution Daily Telegrap (d)  Daily Record (d)	7 Jan 1853-1893  30 Jan 1893   23 Mar 1893	Pub: Peter Eby, Berlin; Alexander MacPherson	KPL: On 2 films:   1853, 1856-1864	KPL: 1853-1864 (incomplete]  2 versions: Hoffman: 1853-1864 Bur-Mor: 1856-1864	Includes inventory of each issue. Additional name index Names arranged in alphabetical order. All gen. Data from each page.  By Frances Hoffman  1856- 1864  Bur-Mor .  Pub: Global Genealogy
Berliner Journal (German)	29 Dec 1859	Berlin	KPL: 1859-1920	BMDs 1859-1869     Births –1858-1896 Deaths 1860-1872 Death, 1874-1891 Deaths 1892-1896  Marriage, 1882-1899	German Language 2 versions: hand written and typed.  Typed does not contain all details.  Handwritten Includes BMD column No indexes.  Typed version arranged alphabetically.    Hand-written arranged by first letter of name.    only  All transcribed by Pat Kauk &  KPL staff
Canada Museum und Allgemeine Zeitung (German)	27 Aug 1835 – 1840? 1st newspaper in Waterloo Co.	Berlin	KPL: 1835-1840,	KPL: BMDs:1835-1840	German language Handwritten. Transcribed by KPL Typed by Rosemary Ambrose
Canadisches Volksblatt	1858-		KPL:1865-1866		German language
Chronicle Telegraph	Waterloo
Daily News Record	1 Feb 1897	Berlin
Der Canadier (German)	1869-1870	New Hamburg			German language
Der Canadische Bauernfreund (evolution): Absorbed by Berliner Journal in 1909	Jan 1851- (for about 60 years)	Preston – then to Waterloo			German language
Der Morgenstern (German)	Sep 1839-16 Sep 1841	Mile north of Waterloo	KPL: 1839-1841	1839-1841	German translation
Deutsche Canadier (German)	1840?-	Berlin	KPL:1841-1864 (incomplete)	B.M.D’s1841-1864 (incomplete)	German translation by KPL. Done by KPL (Kauk) Handwritten
Deutsche Zeitung	3 Nov 1891	Berlin	KPL:1891-1899
Dumfries Courier (evolution) 1846 renamed The Galt Reporter	1844-1847? (about 3 years) 1st English paper in Waterloo County	Galt
Dumfries Reformer (w) 1896 (d)	1850-1912	Galt	KPL:miflm:1849-1863, 1867-1897  CPL:miflm:1849-1892	BMDs: 1853-1870	3 vols. Tran/Typed by Rosemary Ambrose  Pub: Rosemary Ambrose
Elmira Advertiser	1882-1913	Elmira	KPL: mfilm: 1883-1894, 1898-1912
Elmira Anzeiger (w)	Jan 1869 (for 13 years)	Elmira
Elmira Maple Leaf	1882	Elmira			English
Elmira Signet (w)	16 Feb 1893	Elmira	KPL:mfilm: 1893, 1900-1982	KPL:1893-1894, 1900-1902	Index:Placename/subject Names alphabetical. 2 vols: Frances Hoffman All gen data from all pages Pub: Waterloo Region  Branch
Freie Presse  Freie Presse Actien Gesellschaft	6 Aug 1886  01 Apr 1887	Berlin  Berlin	KPL:1886-1887
Galt Reporter	1846-	Galt	KPL: 1857-1859, 1888, 1912-1917, 1919-1922, 1924, 1926-present	At Cambridge Pub. Library BMD: 1902-1910,  D: 1857-1899 Galt Residents only, D:1910-1940	Oldest surviving English newspaper in Waterloo Co.
Galt Weekly Reformer		Galt	KPL:1898-1899, 1903-1912  CPL:1892-1897
Hamburger Beobachter (see also Beobachter)	1849-1867	Preston, then New Hamburg, then back to Preston	KPL:1855-1856	BMDs  1855-1856	German Transcribed/ translated by Ryan Taylor . Retyped Frances  Hoffman  Pub: Waterloo Region Branch
Hespeler Herald	1896	Hespeler	KPL: 1919-1949 CPL: 1921-1930	BM 1902-1916 CPL D. 1902-1947 CPL
Kitchener News Record (evolution): Kitchener-Waterloo Record, The Record		Kitchener	KPL: 1893-present
New Hamburg Independent (w)	1879	New Hamburg	KPL:1917-present
Neu-Hamburg Neutrale  (evolution): In 1858 became Canadisches Volksblatt	19 Jan 1855-1858	New Hamburg	KPL:1855-1857	BMDs:1855-1857	Pub: Waterloo Region  Branch
Ontario Journal		Berlin
Preston Prestonian		Preston	CPL:1916-1931	BMDs:1948-1955 CPL
Preston Progress	1884	Preston
Preston Times		Preston	KPL:1948-1858, 1966-1969	BMDs 1948-1955 CPL
Volksblatt		New Hamburg
Waterloo Chronicle (w)  (evolution):  12 Apr 1899 name changed to Waterloo County Chronicle and Weekly Telegraph  08 Jun 1899 Name changed to The Chronicle Telegraph		Berlin then Waterloo	KPL:1868-1869, 1894-1915, 1917-1929, 1932-present	BMDs:  Vol 1:  2 Jan 1868- 27 May 1869  Vol.2:   5 Jan 1899-20 Dec 1900	Vol. 1 Trans/typed by Gordon Ambrose   Vol. 2 Gordon Ambrose & Laurie Strome  Pub: Waterloo Region  Branch
Waterloo Sentinel	1909-1912	Waterloo	KPL: 1909-1912
Wellesley Maple Leaf (w)	25 Oct 1900-July 1921	Wellesley	KPL:1900-1904, 1906-1908