Georgia Historical Newspapers Summer 2025 Update Adds 62 Titles

The Digital Library of Georgia has just announced that 62 titles have been added in the Summer 2025 Update. They are now part of the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. The complete article announcement can be read HERE Here is the list of the titles and date ranges available, as well as their funding sources: […]

GenealogyBank Adds/Updates 65 Titles – September 2025

GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its updates for September 2025. There are 24 New Titles and 41 Titles that have had issues added in the previous month. From GenealogyBank: Here are some of the details about our most recent U.S. newspaper additions: To see our newspaper archives’ entire title list of more than […]

Elephind is on Its Way Back!

Remember Elephind? The “search many newspaper databases all at once” search engine for online newspapers? It was taken down in March 2024, and it is coming back. I am regularly in touch with DL Consulting in New Zealand, who are the creators of Elephind and also the creator of Veridian Software, the software that powers […]

Hoosier State Chronicles Adds/Updates 6 Titles – September 2025

Hoosier State Chronicles regularly adds or updates newspaper titles for the collection. Last month, 6 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Hoosier State Chronicles website). Here is the list of titles: To access the site, go to Hoosier State Chronicles

Virginia Chronicle Newspaper Collection Adds/Updates 6 Titles – September 2025

Virginia Chronicle regularly adds or updates newspaper titles for the collection. Last month, 6 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Virginia Chronicle website). Here is the list of titles: To access the site, go to Virginia Chronicle

Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections Adds/Updates 57 Titles – September 2025

Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections regularly adds or updates newspaper titles to the collections. Last month, 57 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections website). Here is the list of titles for this month: To access the site, go to Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections

Veridian Adds/Updates 275 Titles – September 2025

Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 200 million pages currently. They power the newspaper collections of California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. And country-wide collections, such as Estonia, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, and Switzerland. Veridian is the name of […]

Distortion, Intention, and Education – Three Underappreciated Barriers in Newspaper Research

The other day, two words came into my mind, seemingly out of nowhere. They were Distortion and Intention. As soon as I recognized these two words, I knew what they were about – newspaper research. I have been an aficionado, an evangelist, and an educator, trying to encourage more genealogy researchers to incorporate historical newspaper […]

455 Free Online New England States Digital Archives

The Ancestor Hunt has been cataloging and listing links to free online genealogy collections in over 24 different record categories since 2014. These are available for you to view and use via the Resources tab above. There is a massive amount of genealogy and historical material that can help us researchers as we discover who belongs in […]

MyHeritage New and Updated Collections – August 1-31, 2025

MyHeritage continues to add or update its record collections at a fast pace for us to search. For August 1-31, 2025, there are 3 new and 18 updated collections. The new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and Happy Hunting!