GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for November 2023. There are 36 New Titles and 10 Titles that have had issues added in the previous month. From GenealogyBank: Here are some of the details about our most recent U.S. newspaper additions: Here is a list of the November additions. To see our […]
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.
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. […]
One resource that should be used more by family history researchers is books. There are hundreds of thousands of local history, family history, and genealogy books that have been published. A large percentage have been digitized, and even more are on library shelves and can be borrowed – either from a local library, a university […]
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. […]
An old proverb states that “the eyes are the windows into the soul.” A genealogy corollary is that “a photo is a window into the lives of your ancestors.” I love old photos, whether they are portraits of my ancestors or historical photos of the period when they lived. It is important to complete research […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for October 2023. There are 4 New Titles and 33 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 71.8 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 October 2023. There are 4 New Titles and 64 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of 16,082 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 […]
MyHeritage continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. There are 7,266 total collections, representing over 19.6 billion records. For the period of October 1-31, 2023, There are 19 new and 9 updated collections. The new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 912 million digitized pages from 24,355 titles. Here is a list of the 79 new titles and the 15 updated titles from the past month. New Titles CALIFORNIA Big Bear Lake Colusa Oakland Porterville: Redwood City Richmond […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for October 2023. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 9 in total. Florida Massachusetts Montana Rhode Island Good Luck and […]