MyHeritage continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. There are 7,266 total collections, representing over 19.6 billion records. For the period of October 1-31, 2023, There are 19 new and 9 updated collections. The new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 912 million digitized pages from 24,355 titles. Here is a list of the 79 new titles and the 15 updated titles from the past month. New Titles CALIFORNIA Big Bear Lake Colusa Oakland Porterville: Redwood City Richmond […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for October 2023. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 9 in total. Florida Massachusetts Montana Rhode Island Good Luck 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 72 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 4 new titles and added to 39 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of October 1-31, 2023, the new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of October 1-30, 2023 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 […]
Mortuary and Funeral Home records are yet another little-used resource by genealogy researchers. They are difficult to obtain, especially in hard copies from the original funeral home. You can contact them, but often, mortuaries went out of business or were sold to another company. And many of the original records have been lost or destroyed. […]
Another type of genealogy record that provides tremendous value is criminal records. Some of our ancestors, unfortunately, got in trouble with the law. And records were kept from arrests through court cases to prison documents. Now, more and more of these records are being digitized or transcribed and are being made available online. Types of […]
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, a great number of indexes to marriage collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific marriage license, bond, and certificate information, and sometimes scanned images of […]
Another type of genealogy record that provides tremendous value is criminal records. Some of our ancestors unfortunately got in trouble with the law. And records were kept from arrests through court cases to prison documents. Now, more and more of these records are being digitized or transcribed and are being made available online. Types of […]