7,400 Free Online Military Record Collections from the United States

Military records are yet another very useful set of records that will help you in finding more about your ancestors. There are a ton of records that are available for free online, and there are some very robust collections (such as Fold3 and Ancestry) that have sizable online military collections as well. Typically, military records […]

Newspapers dot Com Update – September 2024

Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 1 billion digitized pages from over 26,000 titles. Here is a list of the new and updated titles from the past month. Australia Victoria  Canada Alberta  British Columbia  New Brunswick  Ontario Quebec England Cheshire Cumbria Dorset East […]

British Newspaper Archive Adds/Updates 86 Titles – September, 2024

The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for September 2024. There are 6 New Titles and 80 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 84 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]

NewspaperARCHIVE Update – September 2024

NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for September 2024. There are 2 New Titles and 59 Titles that have had issues added. There are over 16,000 titles available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. Below are the titles added or updated this month, […]

Find My Past Adds/Updates 150 Historical Newspaper Titles – September 2024

Find My Past is an underappreciated source for digitized newspapers. It is a subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers. Currently their collection numbers over 84 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 7 new titles and added to 143 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]

Ancestry New and Updated Collections – September 1-30, 2024

Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of September 1-30, 2024, the new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and Happy Hunting!

FamilySearch New and Updated Collections – September 1-30, 2024

FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. ​​For the period of September 1-30, 2024, the added/updated collections are: For a complete list of all added/updated collections, go to https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list​ I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and […]

930 Free United States Mortuary and Funeral Home Records

Mortuary and Funeral Home records are yet another little-used resource by genealogy researchers.  They are difficult to obtain, especially in hard copies from the original funeral home.  You can contact them, but often, mortuaries went out of business or were sold to another company. And many of the original records have been lost or destroyed. […]

190 Free Western States Mortuary and Funeral Home Records

Mortuary and Funeral Home records are yet another little-used resource by genealogy researchers.  They are difficult to obtain, especially in hard copies from the original funeral home.  You can contact them, but often, mortuaries went out of business or were sold to another company. And many of the original records have been lost or destroyed. […]

240 Free Online Criminal Records from the Western States

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 […]