Google News Archive – List of All Newspapers

Many people have used the Free Google News Archive to search historic newspapers for articles about their ancestors. If you haven’t, you should. It is free and fairly easy to use.I for one, always seem to forget how to access the list of all the newspapers contained in the archives. Here is the link.  In […]

Two Terrific Free Sites for Online City Directory Research

There are several subscription websites for researching City Directories to find your ancestors, including ancestry.com and fold3.com as just examples. But are you aware of two free ones that are quite useful? The first is well known, and that is Internet Archive (www.archive.org).  Just enter “city directory” with the quotes in the search box and […]