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The Austin Daily Herald dating back to 1891 is now officially digitized on Newspapers.com.

The Herald’s parent company, Boone News Media, recently partnered with Newspapers.com on the effort, and thanks to the Austin Public Library, who provided the microfilm to the website, people can now visit the site and search for all the details from events of yesteryear.

The site is searchable and allows people to look for an article by both location, date and keyword.

Search for everything from obituaries, marriage announcements, birth announcements and lifestyle stories to crime, sports and more from the Herald’s archives. See what the papers looked like from the past and how the industry has evolved over time.

The tool will be a good resource for everyone from journalists to researchers to people working on their family genealogy and others who just want to have some fun looking up the community in the past.

Archives are available for the Herald in full through 2016. We plan to work to fill in the gaps and beyond that in the future.

Newspapers.com, which is an Ancestry company, has the largest digital newspaper archive with over 27,000 newspapers.

It has never been more convenient to search a newspaper archive than it is today.

Take advantage of the seven-day free trial that Newspapers.com offers and check it out.