If you follow The Ancestor Hunt, you know that we specialize in curating and sharing links to free online genealogy records, collections, and indexes organized by category and location. You can always explore those through the By Locations page — choose a state, then a record type. But not all valuable resources fit neatly into […]
Washington Digital Newspapers regularly adds or updates newspaper titles to the collections. Last month, 5 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Washington Digital Newspapers website). Here is the list of titles for this month: To access the site, go to Washington Digital Newspapers
The Wyoming Digital Newspaper Collection regularly adds or updates newspaper titles to the collection. Last month, 47 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Wyoming Digital Newspapers Collection website). Here is the list of titles: To access the site, go to Wyoming Digital Newspaper Collection
Virginia Chronicle regularly adds or updates newspaper titles for the collection. Last month, 68 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Virginia Chronicle website). Here is the list of titles: To access the site, go to Virginia Chronicle
Source: Northern New York Library Network If you follow this website at all, you know that I, from time to time, update the free online historical newspapers that are available for you to search. I originally posted the New York Online Historical Newspapers Summary in February 2014 and have added many updates, the latest in November 2024. The largest collection […]
Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 250 million pages currently. They power the newspaper collections of California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. And country-wide collections, such as Estonia, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, and Switzerland. Veridian is the name of […]
Background Historical Occupation Profiles explain what ancestors actually did for a living and how those occupations shaped the records genealogists rely on today. Occupation Overview Whalers hunted whales for products such as oil, baleen, and other materials used in lighting, manufacturing, and industry. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, whaling was a major maritime industry, […]
Background Historical Occupation Profiles explain what ancestors actually did for a living and how those occupations shaped the records genealogists rely on today. Occupation Overview Fishermen harvested fish and other seafood from oceans, rivers, and lakes for food and commercial sale. In the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, fishing was a major occupation in […]
Background Historical Occupation Profiles explain what ancestors actually did for a living and how those occupations shaped the records genealogists rely on today. Occupation Overview Streetcar conductors worked on urban transit systems that transported passengers within cities during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Streetcars, powered first by horses and later by electricity, were a […]
Background Historical Occupation Profiles explain what ancestors actually did for a living and how those occupations shaped the records genealogists rely on today. Occupation Overview Ranch hands and cowboys worked on ranches managing livestock, particularly cattle, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their work was central to the development of the livestock industry, especially […]