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 […]
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.
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for August 2024. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 30 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 987 million digitized pages from 26,788 titles. Here is a list of the new titles from the past month. Australia Victoria Canada New Brunswick Ontario Quebec United States Alaska California Kentucky Michigan North Dakota Oregon Pennsylvania Virginia […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for August 2024. There are 8 New Titles and 62 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, […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for August 2024. There are 7 New Titles and 98 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 83 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
Find My Past is an underappreciated source for digitized newspapers. It is a subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers. Currently their collection numbers over 83 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 5 new titles and added to 74 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of August 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 August 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 […]
Cemetery records and cemeteries, in general, are a very large part of our family history and are a significant pursuit for many genealogists. Sometimes, the information on a headstone is the only information available for certain ancestors. What can you find in these records? How about birth, marriage, and death information and clues to military service, […]
Cemetery records and cemeteries, in general, are a very large part of our family history and are a significant pursuit for many genealogists. Sometimes, the information on a headstone is the only information available for certain ancestors. What can you find in these records? How about birth, marriage, and death information and clues to military service, […]