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 […]
Puerto Rico has two sites that hold most of the digitized historical newspapers- Chronicling America and the University of Florida.. Below is a list of where the titles are stored and the link so that you can access them. There are over 570 newspapers that have been published in Puerto Rico – certainly not all 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 February 2022. There is 1 New Title and 33 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 15,700 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 February 2022. There are 75 New Titles and 111 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 48.5 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 February 1-28, 2021, the new/updated collections are: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) (UPDATED) Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave Index, 1800s-Current (UPDATED) Brazil, Find a Grave Index, 1800s-Current (UPDATED) Canada, Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current (UPDATED) Canada, Selected […]