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 60 New Titles and added to 139 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for February 2022. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 13 in total from 4 states and DC. . Colorado Updated […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of February 1-28, 2022, the added/updated collections are: Anguilla, Church Records, 1827-1944 Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic Church Records, 1635-1981 Argentina, Catamarca, Civil Registration, 1888-2000 Argentina, San Juan, Catholic Church Records, 1655-1975 Australia, South Australia, School […]
Another type of genealogy record that provides tremendous value is tax records. Like city directories and voting registers, for example, they provide information for us between federal censuses. They also can go back to colonial times. Types of Taxes Income tax Federal direct tax Poll or head tax Real property, e.g., land Personal property, e.g., […]
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 February 1-15, 2022, the added/updated collections are: Anguilla, Church Records, 1827-1944 Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic Church Records, 1635-1981 Argentina, Catamarca, Civil Registration, 1888-2000 Argentina, San Juan, Catholic Church Records, 1655-1975 Australia, South Australia, School […]
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 […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for February 2022. There are 70 New Titles and 27 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 86 titles from 31 states, plus 1 title from […]
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 […]
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 […]