Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 88 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.
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 […]
In February 2017, I started publishing a list of the catalog of online historical newspapers from over 400 different collections put together by the Advantage Archives Company, developed in conjunction with the libraries, historical societies, and museums across the U.S. that preserve historical newspapers for their communities. The list has grown a lot since then. […]
Yearbooks from high school or college are one of the most fun sets of records for a genealogist to search. It provides you with a ton of story-like information about your ancestor’s life. What their interests were, what sports and clubs they participated in, and often some goofy snapshots of them before they settled into […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for September 2023. There are 230 New Titles and 8 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 September additions. To see our […]
Another type of genealogy record that provides tremendous value is tax records. Like city directories and voting registers, they provide information for us between federal censuses. They also can go back to colonial times. Types of Taxes Types of Information Derivative information, such as birth date, death date, and date of marriage can often be […]
Another type of genealogy record that provides tremendous value is tax records. Like city directories and voting registers, they provide information for us between federal censuses. They also can go back to colonial times. Types of Taxes Types of Information Derivative information, such as birth date, death date, and date of marriage can often be […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 895 million digitized pages from 24,351 titles. Here is a list of the 18 new titles from the past month. England United States California Connecticut Indiana Maine Pennsylvania Tennessee Virginia Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for August 2023. There are 7 New Titles and 53 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 70.4 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 August 2023. There are 9 New Titles and 51 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of 16,075 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 […]