Voter registration records are available online and offline from all over the world and are what I consider a hidden gem of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. Here are several reasons why voter records are such a wonderful tool for researching (and finding) ancestors: Most of the […]
Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 88 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 […]
295 new and updated Free Online Historical Newspaper Links have been added to the Mid Atlantic States’ free “newspaper link lists”: These were all updated in January 2024, and represent additions from the past 6 months. There is a total of 7,600 historical newspapers available to search for free from the Mid Atlantic States. Just […]
Was your ancestor an inventor? Did they apply for and receive a patent? There are several databases you can search. Google Patents is the most well-known, but there are four others you might want to try out. All are free to search. I knew that my Dad had several patents and that his grandfather possibly […]
As we all know, there are no photos available of all of our ancestors, especially many of those who lived primarily in the 1800s or earlier. On the other hand, we may have photos in our collection in what I call my “Unknowns,” where they have not been identified, and may never be identified. So […]
Pennsylvania is one of the states that has several central state-wide online repositories for searching historical newspapers. Several states use the Library of Congress Chronicling America site as their main online site for searching old newspapers. Pennsylvania does have many online newspapers available on that site. Pennsylvania currently also has its online availability from different […]
Trying to find historical District of Columbia newspapers? This is the place to find free online historical newspapers. The District of Columbia does not have a single central online repository for searching historical newspapers, but it uses the Library of Congress Chronicling America site as its main site for searching old newspapers. There are many […]
Voter registration records are available online and offline from all over the world and are what I consider a hidden gem of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. Here are several reasons why voter records are such a wonderful tool for researching (and finding) ancestors: Most of the […]
Voter registration records are available online and offline from all over the world and are what I consider a hidden gem of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. Here are several reasons why voter records are such a wonderful tool for researching (and finding) ancestors: Most of the […]
Voter registration records are available online and offline from all over the world and are what I consider a hidden gem of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. Here are several reasons why voter records are such a wonderful tool for researching (and finding) ancestors: Most of the […]