Find My Past is an underappreciated source for digitized newspapers. It is a subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers. Currently, its collection numbers over 85 million pages and is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 7 new titles and added to 55 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
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.
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, 2024, the new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of October 1-31, 2024, the added/updated collections are: For a complete list of all added/updated collections, go to https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for October 2024. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 82 in total. Important Note: These links are to the NEW […]
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. USA Alaska Arkansas California Alameda Blythe Brisbane Carlsbad Colton Davis Del Mar Fairfield Fallbrook Grass […]
On this website, the first set of free online links to U.S. historical newspapers was published in February 2014, with about 10,000 titles. There have been at least two updates published each year since then. This second update for 2024 adds another 2,060 titles. The total is 49,800 links to Historical American Newspapers that can […]
365 new and updated Free Online Historical Newspaper Links have been added to the Western States’ free “newspaper link lists”: These were all updated in October 2024, and represent additions from the past 6 months. There is a total of 7,180 historical newspapers available to search for free from the Western States. Just click on […]
840 new Free Online Historical Newspaper Links have been added to the Southern States’ free “newspaper link lists”: These were all updated in October 2024, and represent additions from the past 6 months. There is a total of 16,070 historical newspapers available to search for free from the Southern States. Just click on your chosen […]
Do you like to search for genealogy records for your ancestors for Free? Duh. I have about 100 websites that I use, some frequently, some infrequent. Some have digitized records in their collections. Some have links to collections that can be searched or browsed. Some include transcribed records. And some have useful genealogical educational information. […]
660 new and updated Free Online Historical Newspaper Links have been added to the Mid West States’ free “newspaper link lists”: These were all updated in October 2024, and represent additions from the past 6 months. There is a total of 20,800 historical newspapers available to search for free from the Mid West States. Just […]