MyHeritage continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of January 1-31, 2024, There are 18 new and 10 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 […]
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.
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 916 million digitized pages from 24,617 titles. Here is a list of the 51 new titles from the past month. New Titles CanadaOntario EnglandHampshire PanamaPanama ScotlandCentral Region United StatesCalifornia Maine Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Ohio Pennsylvania Texas Virginia […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for January 2024. There are 3 New Titles and 38 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 73.4 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 73.6 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 3 new titles and added to 39 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
The Digital Library of Georgia has just announced that 19 titles are to be added in the Spring and Summer of 2024 Update. They will be part of the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. The complete article announcement can be read HERE Here is the list of the titles and date ranges available, as well […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for January 2024. There are 51 New Titles and 78 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, […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of January 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!
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for January 2024. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 9 in total. New Hampshire West Virginia Good Luck and Happy […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of January 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 […]
Voter registration records are available online and offline from all over the world and are what I consider a hidden gem of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. Here are several reasons why voter records are such a wonderful tool for researching (and finding) ancestors: Most of the […]