FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of July 1-31, 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 […]
One of the main goals for genealogists is finding marriage information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, many indexes to marriage collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific marriage licenses, bonds, certificate information, and sometimes scanned images of the marriage documents themselves. These […]
One of the main goals for genealogists is finding marriage information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, many indexes to marriage collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific marriage licenses, bonds, certificate information, and sometimes scanned images of the marriage documents. These […]
One of the main goals for genealogists is finding marriage information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, many indexes to marriage collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific marriage licenses, bonds, certificate information, and sometimes scanned images of the marriage documents themselves. These […]
One of the main goals for genealogists is finding marriage information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, many indexes to marriage collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific marriage licenses, bonds, certificate information, and sometimes scanned images of the marriage documents themselves. These […]
Did you know that over 100 million newspaper obituary records are available from FamilySearch in 52 different collections? All but 1 collection has searchable indexes, and there are collections with images from newspapers, images from index card transcriptions only, and collections that are indexes only. Now, most do not have newspaper images available for free […]
Did you know that there are many Free Collections and Free Index Collections available on Ancestry dot com? And yes, you do not need a subscription to access them (but you need to have registered, which is free). Below is the list of the 1,317 Free and Free Index Collections (as of July 2024). How […]
In a word, the Old Fulton New York Postcards website is a marvel. Created and maintained by one man, Tom Tryniski, this newspaper database has been in existence since 1999 when Tom began scanning microfilmed newspapers. Currently, this database has over 57.3 million digitized newspaper pages that are searchable by anyone, anywhere. I have just […]
Hello to The Ancestor Hunt readers! Here is the latest Monthly Newsletter. It includes links to all of the articles published since the previous newsletter, as well as articles that I think you might find interesting from other authors. It also includes research tips, a joke or two, and other interesting genealogical stuff. It is […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of July 1-15, 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!