FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of January 1-15, 2022, the added/updated collections are: Alaska, Vital Records, 1816-2005 Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic Church Records, 1635-1981 Argentina, Cemetery Records, 1882-2019 Austria, Carinthia, Gurk Diocese, Catholic Church Records, 1527-1986 Belgium, Antwerp, Civil Registration, […]
A while ago, I came in contact with a gentleman, Lee Hanover, who is even more interested in old newspapers than I am! His interest is not genealogical in nature, but more from a historical perspective. He specializes in newspaper headlines and other historical media. Lee was kind enough to provide answers to my interview […]
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 […]
On this website, the first set of free online links to U.S. historical newspapers was published in February 2014. with about 10,000 titles. There have been at least two updates published each year since then. The final update of 2021 adds another 1,400 titles. The grand total is 39,080 links to Historical American Newspapers that can […]
2022 was a great year for new Quicksheets published on The Ancestor Hunt website. Quicksheets were originally introduced in January 2021. 2022’s new Quicksheets totaled 38. How many of these from 2022 did you review, or miss? Genealogy QuickSheets – Frequently Asked Questions
The State of Alaska has added 16 new titles and 21,000 pages to Chronicling America. Here is part of the announcement from the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project: Two new batches of data from the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project are now online at https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Our batches contain over 5000 newspaper issues from the following titles: Fort Wrangel […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for January 2022. There are 26 New Titles and 5 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 30 titles from 15 states, plus 1 national title […]
Note: This post has been replaced with a more current list of Advantage Archives collections. Please visit 120 Million Historic U.S. Newspaper Pages Now Available from Advantage Archives For the last 4 years, I have been tracking the online collections made available by the Advantage Archives (formerly Advantage Preservation) company, which has contracted with several hundred libraries […]
As always, I am interested in new products and services that will help family historians to document their finds for future descendants and associated family members. Recently I became aware of a service called Memorygram. It is a service that builds a biographical/autobiographical book for you based on a prompted set of questions. There are […]
Are you doing South Dakota genealogy research and looking for Free Online South Dakota Genealogy Records? Click on a link for your desired categories free collection links (1,179 links to Free Collections for South Dakota): NewspapersYearbooksBirthsMarriagesDeathsBMD RecordsAlumni RecordsCemetery RecordsChurch RecordsCoroner RecordsDirectoriesDivorce RecordsImmigrationMilitary RecordsMortuary RecordsNaturalizationsObituariesPhotosProbate and WillsSchool RecordsVoter Records By the way, you can always access […]