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

Dumfries Reformer

Introduction

Deaths 1853-1859

Marriages 1853-1859

Births 1853-1859

Deaths 1860-1865

Marriages 1860-1865

Births 1860-1865

Births 1866-1870

Deaths 1866-1870

Marriages 1866-1870

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