Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. 2023 Chronicling America Accomplishments In 2023, Chronicling America finally achieved the goal of including all 50 states, plus DC, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. New Hampshire was the final state to join. 2024 Chronicling America […]
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.
MyHeritage continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of December 1-31, 2023, There are 23 new and 7 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 […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 916 million digitized pages from 24,522 titles. Here is a list of the 135 new titles from the past month. New Titles AustraliaNew South Wales CanadaOntario EnglandLondon Merseyside United StatesAlabama California Florida Illinois Kentucky Maine Michigan Minnesota […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for December 2023. There are 5 New Titles and 28 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 73.1 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 December 2023. There are 5 New Titles and 57 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of 16,096 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 […]
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 72 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 6 new titles and added to 35 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for December 2023. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 19 in total. Connecticut Maine Massachusetts Minnesota Montana Nebraska New York […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of December 1-31, 2023, 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 December 1-31, 2023 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 […]
If you follow The Ancestor Hunt, you know that we specialize in curating and presenting links to Free Online Genealogy Records, Collections, and Indexes by genealogical category. Everything that is online for free has not been captured in our link lists, as some specific categories and resources have not been curated as yet, or we […]