The State of Alaska is adding 55,000 pages to Chroniclimg America! Here is part of the announcement from the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project: “October and November were exciting months here at the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project. We submitted 5 new batches of newspaper issues to the Library of Congress and all 5 were accepted! This […]
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 […]
Reveal Digital, the company behind Independent Voices, which is a collection of alternative newspapers, has published a new collection, American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020 Here is a descripton from their website: On March 24, 1800, Forlorn Hope became the first newspaper published within a prison by an incarcerated person. In the intervening 200 years, over 450 prison newspapers have […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for December 2021. There are 16 New Titles and 2 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 15 titles from 9 states, plus 3 national titles […]
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 […]
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 […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for November 2021. There are 42 New Titles and 133 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 15,000 titles available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. Below are the titles added or […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for November 2021. There are 37 New Titles and 135 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 46.3 million pages available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of November 1-30 2021, the new/updated collections are: Arizona, U.S., State Court Naturalization Records, 1869-1993 (UPDATED) Arizona, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1803-1995 (UPDATED) Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave Index, 1800s-Current (UPDATED) Australia and New Zealand, […]
Find My Past is an underappreciated source for digitized newspapers. A subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers. Currently their collection numbers nearly 120 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 34 New Titles and added to 145 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Beckenham Journal, […]