Denní Hlasatel Archive
The Denní Hlasatel was a Chicago Czech-language daily newspaper founded in 1891 and published through 2006, making it the longest-running Czech serial in the world.
In 2023, CGSI secured the rights to digitize, copy, distribute, publish, and display all issues of Denní Hlasatel. These digitized issues are now accessible to CGSI members in accordance with the Terms of Use.
Issues of the Denní Hlasatel contained obituaries which are immensely useful for genealogy. It is estimated that the Denní Hlasatel printed close to 100,000 obituaries over the course of 115 years.
CGSI's collection of Denní hlasatel issues have been created from digitized microfilms. Researching in this collection can be made easier by becoming familiar with the strategies and tips shared in Reading the Denní Hlasatel Archive.
It will take more than 5,000 hours and nearly $50,000 to put all 35,000+ issues on our website. Because of this, we decided to focus first on making the issues available to our members. Most members typically search within a specific time period to find information about an individual, so creating a comprehensive index for all issues—which is expected to take an additional 5,000 volunteer hours—is not a priority until the individual issues are all digitized. In the meantime, you can access the CSAGSI Denní hlasatel Obituary Index on their website or request a specific lookup from a CGSI volunteer.
In digitizing the 115-year run of the Denní Hlasatel newspaper and making it available online, CGSI is preserving a unique record of the Czech and Slovak immigrant experience in the United States, a unique resource whose value reaches beyond the genealogy community to include historians, academics, and independent researchers. Notable issues show how important news was conveyed to Czech-Americans.
You can be part of CGSI's ongoing project to preserve the entire 115-year run of the Denní Hlasatel by clicking the donation button below. Your donation offers you the opportunity to identify a month or year you are eagerly looking for that is not yet available and will enable us to begin the purchase and digitization of reels covering the years 1941 through 1955.
