Did you know that there are many Free Collections and Free Index Collections available on Ancestry dot com? And yes, you do not need a subscription to access them (but you need to have registered, which is free).’ Here is the list of the 1,175 Free and Free Index Collections (as of October 30, 2021): […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for October 2021. There are 4 New Titles and 297 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 […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of October 1-31 2021, the new/updated collections are: 1871 England Census (UPDATED) Alabama, U.S., Naturalization Records, 1888-1991 (UPDATED) Argentina, National Census, 1895 (UPDATED) Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 (UPDATED) Brazil, Civil Registration, 1870-2012 (UPDATED) Brittany, France Court Records, 1600-1790 (UPDATED) California, U.S., […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for October 2021. There are 45 New Titles and 41 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 45.7 million pages available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
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 46 New Titles and added to 72 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Annandale Herald […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of October 1-31, 2021, the added/updated collections are: Argentina, Cemetery Records, 1882-2019 Arizona, Yuma, Prison Records, 1884-1910 Austria, Carinthia, Gurk Diocese, Catholic Church Records, 1527-1986 Belgium, Antwerp, Civil Registration, 1588-1913 Bolivia Catholic Church Records, 1566-1996 […]
One of the main goals for genealogists in searching historic newspapers is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information and sometimes more importantly – information about the relatives of the deceased’s family and extended family. This family name information is often not […]
An old proverb states that “the eyes are the windows into the soul.” A genealogy corollary is that “a photo is a window into the lives of your ancestors.” I love old photos, whether they are portraits of my ancestors or historical photos for the period when they lived. And it is important to a […]
An old proverb states that “the eyes are the windows into the soul.” A genealogy corollary is that “a photo is a window into the lives of your ancestors.” I love old photos, whether they are portraits of my ancestors or historical photos for the period when they lived. And it is important to a […]
An old proverb states that “the eyes are the windows into the soul.” A genealogy corollary is that “a photo is a window into the lives of your ancestors.” I love old photos, whether they are portraits of my ancestors or historical photos for the period when they lived. And it is important to a […]