FamilySearch New and Updated Collections – July 1-15, 2025

FamilySearch continues to add or update its record collections at a fast pace for us to search. ​​For the period of July 1-15, 2025, 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 […]

3,750 Free Obituary and Obituary Index Collection Links for the Mid West States

Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to obituary information and transcriptions of obituaries from newspapers have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the scanned newspaper clipping is included. And remember you […]

8,795 Free Online United States Birth Records and Indexes

One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, baptism, and/or christening information about their ancestors.   Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to birth and baptism collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific birth, baptism, or christening information, and […]

GenealogyBank Adds/Updates 57 Titles – July 2025

GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for July 2025. There are 16 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 […]

1,045 Free Online Mid Atlantic States Birth Record and Index Collections

One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, baptism, and/or christening information about their ancestors.   Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, many indexes to birth and baptism collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific birth, baptism, or christening information, and sometimes scanned images […]

2,030 Free Online Mid West States Birth Record and Index Collections

One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, baptism, and/or christening information about their ancestors.   Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, many indexes to birth and baptism collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific birth, baptism, or christening information, and sometimes scanned images […]

2,275 Free Online Southern States Birth Record and Index Collections

​One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, baptism, and/or christening information about their ancestors.   Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, many indexes to birth and baptism collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific birth, baptism, or christening information, and sometimes scanned images […]

Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection Adds/Updates 11 Titles – July 2025

The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection regularly adds or updates newspaper titles to the collection. Last month, 11 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection website). Here is the list of titles: To access the site, go to Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection

Washington Digital Newspapers Adds/Updates 5 Titles – July 2025

Washington Digital Newspapers regularly adds or updates newspaper titles to the collections. Last month, 5 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Washington Digital Newspapers website). Here is the list of titles for this month: To access the site, go to Washington Digital Newspapers

Veridian Adds/Updates 265 Titles – July 2025

Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 100 million pages currently. They power California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Virginia,  Washington, and Wyoming state newspaper collections. And country-wide collections, such as Estonia, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, and Switzerland. Veridian is the name of the […]