FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of March 1-31, 2022, the added/updated collections are: Albania, Census, 1930 Argentina, Chaco, Civil Registration, 1889-1946 Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1784-1911 Belgium, Antwerp, Civil Registration, 1588-1913 Bolivia Catholic Church Records, […]
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 120 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 79 New Titles and added to 291 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles […]
Hello to The Ancestor Hunt readers! Here is the latest Bi-monthly Newsletter. It includes links to all of the articles published since the previous newsletter, as well as articles that I think you might find interesting from other authors. It also includes research tips, a joke or two, and other interesting genealogical stuff. It is […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of March 1-15, 2022, the added/updated collections are: Albania, Census, 1930 Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1784-1911 Belgium, Antwerp, Civil Registration, 1588-1913 Bolivia Catholic Church Records, 1566-1996 Brazil, Bahía, Catholic Church […]
The Library of Congress has just added over 3,500 telephone directories from the twentieth century that are now available online for free. From the About Section of their website: “The Library of Congress’s collection of telephone directories represents the following states and localities: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, […]
History Hub is sponsored by the National Archives and was developed in 2016 as a community crowdsourced support platform where people can ask questions, get help with research, and share their knowledge and information. National Archive staff respond to many of the questions with information about resources found at the National Archives and sometimes include […]
In February 2017, I started publishing a list of the catalog of online historical newspapers from over 400 different collections put together by the Advantage Archives Company, developed in conjunction with the libraries, historical societies and museums across the U.S. who preserve the historical newspapers for their communities. The list has grown a lot since […]
Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 50 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 […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for March 2022. There are 56 New Titles and 12 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: A total of 51 titles from 16 states, plus 15 national titles […]
For those of you who follow The Ancestor Hunt, I like to make you aware of new offerings that you might wish to explore. In late 2020 I was introduced to a new app called Whoowe. I published an interview with the CEO at that time. Since the app is going to be in the […]