22 Types of Populated Places in the United States

When looking for our ancestors in the United States we typically look for a “city” name, a “county” name, and the state. Did you know that not every state uses the term “county” to describe that administrative/political subdivision? And did you know that in some states there are independent cities that are not a part […]

1,685 Free United States Online Alumni Collections

Alumni records are part directories, part newspapers, and magazines, part biographies, part obituaries, part yearbooks, part vital records, etc. You get the idea. If you are seeking genealogy clues, these “records’ are full of them. All of the information is derivative, but it can provide leads for you to search for original documents. And if […]

FamilySearch New and Updated Collections – December 1-31, 2022

FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. ​​For the period of December 1-31, 2022, 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 […]

Free Online Immigration Records from the New England States

Immigration Records are some of the richest genealogy record sets and can provide excellent clues as well as data about your ancestors. Specifically, when they came to America, or traveled but did not immigrate. Emigration records can tell you when they left their homeland and can direct you to when they might have immigrated if […]

390 Free Mid West States Mortuary and Funeral Home Records

Mortuary and Funeral Home records are yet another little-used resource by genealogy researchers.  They are difficult to obtain, especially in hard copies from the original funeral home.  You can contact them, but often, mortuaries went out of business or were sold to another company. And many of the original records have been lost or destroyed. […]

315 Free Southern States Mortuary and Funeral Home Records

Mortuary and Funeral Home records are yet another little-used resource by genealogy researchers.  They are difficult to obtain, especially in hard copies from the original funeral home.  You can contact them, but often, mortuaries went out of business or were sold to another company. And many of the original records have been lost or destroyed. […]

300 Free Western States Online Alumni Collections

Alumni records are part directories, part newspapers, and magazines, part biographies, part obituaries, part yearbooks, part vital records, etc. You get the idea. If you are seeking genealogy clues, these “records’ are full of them. All of the information is derivative, but it can provide leads for you to search for original documents. And if […]

290 Free Mid Atlantic States Online Alumni Collections

Alumni records are part directories, part newspapers, and magazines, part biographies, part obituaries, part yearbooks, part vital records, etc. You get the idea. If you are seeking genealogy clues, these “records’ are full of them. All of the information is derivative, but it can provide leads for you to search for original documents. And if […]

Newspapers dot Com Update – December 2022

Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 819 million digitized pages from over 22,533 titles. Here is a list of the 642 new and updated titles from the past month. Canada Alberta British Columbia Ontario Quebec Saskatchewan England Avon Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cleveland Derbyshire Devon […]

NewspaperARCHIVE Update – December 2022

NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for December 2022. There are 3 New Titles and 61 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 15,999 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 […]