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 […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of May 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!
If you are looking for maps to aid in your genealogy research, the David Rumsey Map Collection website should not be missed. It has a terrific search engine with associated tools, as well as an abundance of information. From the website: “The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 35 years ago and contains more […]
Tens of millions of people can trace at least one ancestor from Ellis Island. Personally, about 50 of my ancestors came through Ellis Island. From the website: “The Passenger Search database allows you to look for family members who arrived at the Port of New York from 1820 to 1957. At the Ellis Island National […]