Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 1.2 billion digitized pages from over 30,700 titles. Here is a list of the new titles from the past month. United States Alaska Connecticut Florida Illinois Kansas Kentucky Massachusetts New York Ohio Austria England France Germany Northern […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its record collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of May 1-31, 2026, 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 […]
The Digital Library of Georgia has just announced that 101 titles have been added in the Spring 2026 Update. They will be part of the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. Here is the list of the titles and date ranges available, as well as their funding sources: Titles digitized in partnership with Beth Hammond Titles […]
The most important discoveries often come after the straightforward path disappears. The Insight Many people begin genealogy expecting a simple progression from one generation to the next. Find a parent, then a grandparent, then a great-grandparent, and continue moving backward through time. Reality is rarely that straightforward. Records disappear. Names change. Ages vary from one […]
The time you spend documenting your research today can save hours of duplicated work tomorrow. The Insight One of the most common frustrations in genealogy occurs when a researcher discovers they have already searched for the same information months—or even years—earlier but cannot remember the result. Many genealogists save records, screenshots, and downloaded documents but […]
The longer an assumption circulates, the easier it becomes to mistake it for evidence. The Insight Many genealogy errors begin with a reasonable possibility. A researcher notices two individuals with the same surname living in the same county. A family appears near another family in a census record. A marriage record seems to connect two […]
The quality of your research often depends on the quality of the question you ask before you begin. The Insight Many genealogy searches fail before they even begin—not because records are missing, but because the researcher never clearly defined what they were trying to learn. It is easy to open a database, enter a surname, […]
Some family history can never be found in a database because it exists only in someone’s memory. The Insight Genealogy researchers sometimes spend years searching databases, archives, newspapers, and courthouse records while overlooking one of the most valuable sources of family history: living relatives. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and longtime family friends may hold […]
The record that solves tomorrow’s problem may be the one you cannot relocate today. The Insight Many genealogists carefully save records, screenshots, and downloaded documents but pay less attention to recording exactly where those records came from. At first, this may not seem important. The information has been found, the ancestor has been identified, and […]
The past doesn’t become easier to understand until you stop expecting it to behave like the present. The Insight Historical records make far more sense when you understand the world your ancestors lived in. Naming traditions, spelling variations, migration routes, census instructions, occupations, social customs, and even the meaning of common words were often very […]