The Alaska State Library has just announced that they have added 13 titles to the state’s digitized newspaper collection available at Chronicling America. The complete announcement can be read HERE Here are the titles that have been added: The New Native (Hydaburg, Alaska) The Free Press (Fairbanks, Alaska) The Alaska Socialist (Fairbanks, Alaska) The Midnight […]
Source: University of Wyoming and the Wyoming State Library The state of Wyoming has just announced a partnership that yields a new collection of the state’s historical newspapers available online. From the State: “The Wyoming State Library and the University of Wyoming Libraries have worked in partnership to launch a new digital collection of historic […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for January, 2021. There are 64 New Titles, and 24 Titles that have had issues added in the previous month. From GenealogyBank: “We just completed adding new content from 88 newspaper titles, increasing our content coverage from coast to coast: a total of 82 titles from […]
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 3 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 […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for January, 2021. There are 15 New Titles, and 40 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 41 million pages available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found […]
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 […]
I have been having discussions for the last year or so 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 […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update their records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of January 1-31, 2021, the new/updated collections are: 1860 U.S. Federal Census – Slave Schedules (UPDATED) 1911 England Census (UPDATED) Alabama, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 (UPDATED) Archdeaconry of Richmond, England, Church of England Marriage Bonds, 1611-1861 (NEW) Australia and New Zealand, […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historic newspapers, regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for January, 2021. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 15 in total from 7 different states. Alaska Updated content for The Alaska daily empire. […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of January 1-31, 2021, the added/updated collections are: Alabama, Military Discharge Records, ca.1918 – ca.1962 Argentina, Córdoba, Catholic Church Records, 1557-1974 Argentina, Entre Ríos, Catholic Church Records, 1764-1983 Argentina, Entre Ríos, Civil Registration, 1860-1965 Argentina, Salta, […]