GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its updates for February 2026. There are 9 New Titles and 6 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 […]
Introduction: Ever wondered how disease outbreaks affected your ancestors’ daily lives? Long before centralized health departments and modern reporting systems, newspapers served as the primary public warning system during epidemics. Quarantine Notices alerted communities to outbreaks of contagious diseases such as smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and influenza. These brief but urgent announcements named households, […]
Background Historical Occupation Profiles explain what ancestors actually did for a living and how those occupations shaped the records genealogists rely on today. Occupation Overview Railroad workers formed one of the largest and most influential occupational groups in North America from the mid-19th century through the early 20th century. They built, operated, and maintained the […]
Another type of genealogy record that provides tremendous value is criminal records. Some of our ancestors, unfortunately, got into trouble with the law. Records were kept, from arrests through court cases to prison documents. More and more of these records are being digitized or transcribed and made available online. Types of Records Types of Information […]
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections regularly adds or updates newspaper titles to the collections. Last month, 24 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
Source: Northern New York Library Network If you follow this website at all, you know that I, from time to time, update the free online historical newspapers that are available for you to search. I originally posted the New York Online Historical Newspapers Summary in February 2014 and have added many updates, the latest in November 2024. The largest collection […]
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 […]
MyHeritage continues to add or update its record collections at a fast pace for us to search. For January 1-31, 2026, there are 8 new and 15 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!
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its record collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of January 1-31, 2026, the new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
Find My Pastis an underappreciated source for digitized newspapers. It is a subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers. Currently, its collection numbers over 99.4 million pages and is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 27 new titles and added to 68 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated Titles […]