In the first half of 2021, I separated the links for Birth, Marriage, and Death Records and Indexes into three web pages rather than one combined page with all three categories. This was due to the length of one web page for all categories becoming too long. Choose your category below (sorry for the extra […]
To celebrate this, the 8th anniversary of the birth of “The Ancestor Hunt”, we are making available a Greatest Hits Album. There are two sides (A Side and B Side), each with 6 Tracks (posts) each, along with 4 Bonus Tracks (posts). These are the most popular of the hundreds of posts published by The […]
For those of you who follow The Ancestor Hunt, you know that I rarely if ever promote products. However, I do like to make you aware of new offerings that you might wish to explore. I have always wanted to write my autobiography, not to mention writing biographies of some of my favorite ancestors. […]
The Brooklyn Public library just announced the successful digitization, and availability online of student newspapers from 55 Brooklyn area High Schools. There are a total of 925 issues – some have short runs, but many have dozens of issues. You can read the full story at Get Some Teen Perspective With Digitized High School Newspapers From […]
This article has been updated and is more current (with more links). The current version is Free Online Canada Obituaries and Obituary Indexes. Please use this new link.
If you’ve read any prior articles or tips regarding online newspaper research, then you know that the quality of the scanned newspaper as well as the OCR process dictate the quality of the search index. You need to realize that you are searching for combinations of letters, not words. And when you are using those […]
When entering our search criteria in the search box on an online historical newspaper site, we often focus primarily on the name of the target ancestor or family. We might also search for a location or an address. or combine these with a name. My guess is that well over 90% of online newspaper searches […]
In 2018 and 2019, I expanded the resources that I have made available on The Ancestor Hunt website. Besides free Online Historical Newspaper Links, I have added Obituary Indexes (which are found in the Obituaries), and Birth, Marriage, and Death Record Links (found in the BMD Links). It occurred to me that it would be […]
I have been having discussions for the last few months with my friend Alan Martin about recording one’s family history as an alternative or adjunct to writing it. I have been writing my ancestor’s family history through blog posts on my two family history websites for years. I fully intend to write a book about one […]
As genealogy researchers, we aspire to see what our ancestors looked like – what they wore, their surroundings, where they lived, etc. Sometimes the names of the individuals are cited in these photo archives and sometimes not. So as another benefit we may find additional ancestors with the same surnames, even though the photo itself […]