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Looking for Swedish American ancestors, local history, or stories from Swedish communities across North America?

There’s a major free resource to explore 🔎

Swedish American Newspapers now brings together more than 1.3 million digitized newspaper pages from 348 publications, covering the years 1851–2007.

The free, searchable collection includes Swedish-language newspapers published across the United States and Canada, offering genealogists, family historians, students, and curious researchers a new way to uncover names, places, events, and community stories.

The expanded collection is available through an updated English and Swedish website hosted by the Minnesota Historical Society.

Explore the collection👇
https://swedishamericannews.mnhs.org/

Discover New Ways to Explore Irish History

With more than 19 million newspaper pages, Irish Newspaper Archives offers a remarkable window into Ireland’s past—from major historical events to the local stories, family notices, and everyday moments that shaped communities.

A range of new features is making it easier for members to discover publications, explore historical content, save and organise their research, receive personalised alerts, and access newly available material.

These include:

📰 A ‘New and Updated Publications’ module
🔖 Community features for clipping, following, and tagging content
🔔 Personalised notifications and content alerts
✍️ Integrated articles and historical features
🌓 Adjustable contrast for easier reading
🔍 More advanced search options

Explore how Irish Newspaper Archives is creating new ways to discover, research, and connect with Irish history.

🔗 Read the full feature: https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/irish-newspaper-archives-case-study

How Irish Newspaper Archives Combined Scalability, Discovery and Community Features Learn how Irish Newspaper Archives uses Veridian to power a 19-million-page digital archive, combining scalability with advanced discovery features.

Our latest monthly round-up is here 📰

This month, we explore:

🔎 More custom features powering Irish Newspaper Archives
Discover how integrated publishing, enhanced accessibility, advanced search, and flexible embargo management are supporting a collection of more than 19 million newspaper pages.

📚 Catholic News Archive surpasses one million pages
Learn how this growing collection is helping researchers connect records, uncover richer stories, and explore Catholic history.

🕰️ From the Archives: July 1955
We revisit a memorable newspaper headline from this month in history.

Read the full round-up below 👇
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/july-2026-new-custom-veridian-features-jcoqe

July 2026: New Custom Veridian Features (Part 2), One-Million-Page Milestone, Archives of July 1955 As always, we welcome your thoughts and questions. If there's a topic or trend you'd like us to explore, please share it with us here.

AI is making it easier than ever to create convincing historical content—but not necessarily content people can trust 🧐

This places even greater value on digital collections that provide clear provenance, reliable source attribution, and direct access to original materials.

Our latest article explores why libraries, archives, and cultural heritage organisations are uniquely positioned to strengthen trust and accountability in the AI era. ✨

Read the full article: https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/ai-is-making-trust-the-most-valuable-asset-in-digital-collections

AI Is Making Trust the Most Valuable Asset in Digital Collections AI can create history-inspired stories, but provenance builds trust. Discover why digital collections are becoming more important than ever.

In our latest round-up:

Explore new custom features powering Irish Newspaper Archives — and see how one of Ireland's largest newspaper collections is using Veridian to enhance discovery, engagement, and member experiences.

AI is making trust the most valuable asset in digital collections — why provenance, transparency, and source attribution are becoming increasingly important in the age of AI-generated content.

Cloudflare for Digital Collections: FAQs — answers to common questions about performance, security, automated scraping, and protecting digital collections online.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-features-ai-trust-cloudflare-faqs-ciwbe

New Features, AI Trust, and Cloudflare FAQs As always, we welcome your thoughts and questions. If there's a topic or trend you'd like us to explore, please share it with us here.

Congratulations to the Plains to Peaks Collective on the launch of its new discovery platform 🙌

Bringing together more than 1.2 million historic items from over 60 cultural heritage organisations across Colorado and Wyoming is a remarkable achievement — and an important step in making the region’s shared history easier to discover and explore.

The new platform gives researchers, educators, students, and communities a single place to search across photographs, manuscripts, books, audio recordings, artefacts, videos, and other collection materials. state

We’re incredibly proud to have worked alongside the Colorado State Library, Wyoming State Library, and the wider Plains to Peaks Collective team to help bring their vision for the new platform to life.

Thank you for allowing Veridian to be part of such a meaningful project, and congratulations to everyone involved in reaching this exciting milestone.

Read the launch announcement:👇
https://www.coloradovirtuallibrary.org/csl-news/the-plains-to-peaks-collective-launches-a-new-search-platform/

Explore the collection: 👇
https://www.plains2peaks.org/

The Plains to Peaks Collective Launches a New Discovery Platform The Colorado State Library, in partnership with the Wyoming State Library, is excited to announce ... Read more

A fantastic milestone for Washington Digital Newspapers—more than one million historic newspaper pages are now available to explore online for free!

The growing collection preserves local stories from before Washington achieved statehood through to the present day, supporting genealogists, educators, journalists, researchers, and curious history seekers around the world.

Congratulations to the Washington State Library team and everyone who has contributed to making this valuable history accessible. We’re proud that Veridian helps power its discovery online.

Read the full story:
https://www.sos.wa.gov/about-office/news/2026/online-collection-historic-washington-newspapers-reaches-one-million-pages

Online collection of historic Washington newspapers reaches one million pages | WA Secretary of State June 17, 2026 OLYMPIA — As of June 16, the Washington Digital Newspapers program has officially gathered more than one million pages from historic local newspapers in its online collection.   The digital newspapers program operates under the Washington State Library and the Office of the Secreta...

Digital collections sit at the intersection of two closely related, but fundamentally different, goals: preservation and access.

These terms are often used interchangeably, but understanding the difference between them is important for libraries, archives, and cultural heritage organisations focused on creating digitisation programmes that are sustainable in the long-term.

https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/digital-preservation-vs-digital-access-in-archival-collections

Digital Preservation vs. Digital Access in Archival Collections Digital preservation and access serve different goals. Learn how they work together and where the Veridian platform fits within this ecosystem.

Cloudflare plays a key role in Veridian’s security and performance strategy. Alongside other tools, it helps protect digital collections from scraping, cyberattacks, and other online threats while improving site speed, reliability, and secure access.

Read on to learn how Cloudflare works, how it helps safeguard digital collections, and find answers to common questions in our FAQs.

https://veridiansoftware.com/knowledge-base/how-veridian-uses-cloudflare-to-protect-digital-collections

How Veridian Uses Cloudflare to Protect Digital Collections Learn how Veridian uses Cloudflare to protect digital collections from scraping and cyberattacks while improving site speed and reliability.

The value of digital collections isn't just access—it's evidence.

In an era where AI can create increasingly convincing historical narratives and imagery, trusted primary sources remain essential for verification.

A timely reminder of why preserving, digitising, and making historical records discoverable continues to matter.

𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐈𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧? 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈-𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 🔍🤔

For generations, historians worried about lost records. Today, we face a different challenge: fabricated ones.

We've all seen them: compelling historical stories shared online, complete with names, dates, exact ages, dramatic quotes, and what appears to be a period photograph. The details are often so specific that they feel unquestionably true.

Many of these posts combine:

• Real historical events and settings
• Plausible details
• AI-generated photographs
• Emotional narratives

The stories themselves aren't necessarily impossible. In fact, many describe events that certainly could have happened.

The challenge is that they often provide no way to verify them.

So, whenever you encounter one of these stories, ask a simple question:

• Where did this story come from?
• Can you find the family in the census?
• A mention in local newspapers?
• A homestead application?
• A land record?
• An obituary?
• A church register?

One of the most valuable habits for historians, genealogists, and family researchers is to follow the records. Before accepting a story as fact, look for the evidence behind it. Search census records, newspapers, land records, and other primary sources that can help confirm—or challenge—the narrative.

𝐈𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈-𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭.

Good history isn't defined by how believable a story sounds. It's defined by whether it can be traced back to evidence.