Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to obituary information and transcriptions of obituaries from newspapers have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the scanned newspaper clipping is included. And remember you […]
Author: Kenneth R Marks
Kenneth R Marks was born and educated in the San Francisco Bay Area, receiving a BS in Mathematics in 1968. His career was in Information Technology; with the last 20 Years as a software executive with Boeing, Pearson, and NASA. His genealogy career began in 2004. He is an expert in newspaper research for genealogy, as well as additional genealogy topics. He regularly conducts webinars on the subject and has authored three genealogy books. See the About page for more details.
The Ancestor Hunt, founded in 2008, is focused on helping genealogy and family history researchers of all skill levels to achieve their goals, by providing links to free online genealogy collections, and search tips and techniques, largely via easy-to-understand Quick Reference Guides.
One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, baptism, and/or christening information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to birth and baptism collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific birth, baptism, or christening information, and […]
Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 100 million pages currently. They power California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, 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 […]
In February 2017, I started publishing a list of the catalog of online historical newspapers from over 400 different collections put together by the Advantage Archives Company, developed in conjunction with the libraries, historical societies, and museums across the U.S. that preserve historical newspapers for their communities. The list has grown a lot since then. […]
This past week I have been updating the articles published in the past that contain links to free online historical newspapers for Canada. Each article focuses on one single province (the territories are grouped into one article). There are about 4,415 historical newspapers available online for free, and the links are included in these articles. […]
This article is part of a series: Finding Your Ancestors: Fundamentals. When researching our ancestors, one of our most important goals is to determine where they lived. This information is key to finding other aspects of their lives, whether they be local or state vital records, census records, or newspapers where there might be further […]
One of the main goals for genealogists is finding death information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists (as well as the largest of them all – FamilySearch), many indexes to death collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific death information and sometimes […]
MyHeritage continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of November 1-30, 2024, There are 8 new and 13 updated collections. The new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and Happy […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 1 billion digitized pages from over 26,000 titles. Here is a list of the new and updated titles from the past month. Australia Victoria Canada Alberta British Columbia New Brunswick Nova Scotia Ontario Quebec Saskatchewan England Berkshire […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for November 2024. There is 1 New Title and 21 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 86 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]