The Ancestor Hunt, a leading free resource for genealogy researchers, today announced the launch of The Newspaper Research Academy, a new online hub providing genealogists and historians with expert tools and education to master historical newspaper research. The Academy combines decades of experience from The Ancestor Hunt’s founder, Kenneth R. Marks, with a curated collection […]
Month: August 2025
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection regularly adds or updates newspaper titles to the collection. Last month, 8 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection website). Here is the list of titles: To access the site, go to Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
Virginia Chronicle regularly adds or updates newspaper titles for the collection. Last month, 17 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Virginia Chronicle website). Here is the list of titles: To access the site, go to Virginia Chronicle
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections regularly adds or updates newspaper titles to the collections. Last month, 32 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections website). Here is the list of titles for this month: To access the site, go to Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
Source: Northern New York Library Network If you follow this website at all, you know that I, from time to time, update the free online historical newspapers that are available for you to search. I originally posted the New York Online Historical Newspapers Summary in February 2014 and have added many updates, the latest in November 2024. The largest collection […]
Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 200 million pages currently. They power the newspaper collections of California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. And country-wide collections, such as Estonia, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, and Switzerland. Veridian is the name of […]
Another underutilized genealogy resource is Church Records. We tend to focus our research on civil records but need to be aware that often church records pre-date civil records and are also a great resource. In the BMD Records section of this website, there are about 15,000 collections of civil records that are available online. Yes, that’s a […]