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. […]
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.
City and business directories are available online from all over the U.S. and are another important source of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. This activity of presenting links is a collaborative effort between The Ancestor Hunt and Miriam Robbins. For years, Miriam has made available the Online Historical […]
City and business directories are available online from all over the U.S. and are another important source of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. This activity of presenting links is a collaborative effort between The Ancestor Hunt and Miriam Robbins. For years, Miriam has made available the Online Historical […]
172 new and updated Free Online Historical Newspaper Links have been added to the New England 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 2,615 historical newspapers available to search for free from the New England States. Just […]
City and business directories are available online from all over the U.S.. They are another important set of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. This activity of presenting links is a collaborative effort between The Ancestor Hunt and Miriam Robbins, who for years has made available the Online Historical […]
City and business directories are available online from all over the U.S. and are another important source of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. This activity of presenting links is a collaborative effort between The Ancestor Hunt and Miriam Robbins. For years, Miriam has made available the Online Historical […]
Military records are yet another very useful set of records that will help you in finding more about your ancestors. There are a ton of records that are available for free online, and there are some very robust collections (such as Fold3 and Ancestry) that have sizable online military collections as well. Typically, military records […]
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 Ontario Quebec England Cheshire Cumbria Dorset East […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for September 2024. There are 6 New Titles and 80 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 84 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for September 2024. There are 2 New Titles and 59 Titles that have had issues added. There are over 16,000 titles available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. Below are the titles added or updated this month, […]