Probate records and wills are available online from all over the U.S. and are what I consider another hidden gem of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. What can you find in these records? How about the date of death, spouse’s and children’s names, birth order, sibling’s and […]
The National Cemetery Administration manages all the national cemeteries that bury Veterans of the Military. The two main areas of interest of the website are the ability to find a national cemetery and the very popular Grave Locator. The National Gravesite Locator is an online database that includes (from the website): “Burial locations of veterans […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 862 million digitized pages from over 23,410 titles. Here is a list of the 255 new titles from the past month. AustraliaNew South Wales EnglandCheshire New ZealandAuckland Buller Buller District Canterbury Central Otago Dunedin City Gisborne Grey […]
The FamilySearch Digital Library essentially is the place for books. FamilySearch identifies it in a more detailed fashion: “Over 500,000 genealogy books, family histories, maps, yearbooks, and more.” Partner libraries have shared parts of their collections with FamilySearch. They are major libraries in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. You can search the Digital Library by entering […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for May 2023. There is 1 New Title and 41 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of 16,059 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 […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for May 2023. There are 0 New Titles and 80 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 67.9 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for June 2023. There are 33 New Titles and 9 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: Here is a list of the June additions. To see our […]
Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 87 million pages currently. They power California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, 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 software and […]
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 50 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 13 New Titles and added to 42 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for May 2023. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 23 in total from 6 states. Arkansas Georgia Kansas Massachusetts Minnesota […]
