The Freedman’s Bureau Online website is an important set of links to genealogy collections to assist African Americans in researching their ancestors. From the website: “The Freedmen’s Bureau, was established in the War Department by an act of March 3, 1865. The Bureau supervised all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and freedmen, including issuing rations, […]
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.
The Wiki is amazing. It has over 100,000 articles and essentially is as the website states: “Find the birth, death, marriage, census records, and other genealogy resources for your ancestor.” The Wiki is a guide to finding where to look for a specific location or genealogy resource category. There likely is an article that will […]
Do you research naturalization records? No? Why not? Does the thought of going through paper files in dusty court basements turn you off? Well – I’m here to tell you that it is worth it – and with recent digitization efforts – more and more original documents have been scanned and made available via microfilm […]
I have just discovered a new website that focuses on Great Lakes History. It has material from both the U.S. and Canada. It appears that right now the majority of the material is from the province of Ontario, and the states of Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. This Great Lakes Portal is a service of OurDigitalWorld. From […]
Another underutilized genealogy resource is Church Records. We tend to focus our research on civil records, but need to be aware that often church records pre-date civil records and are a great resource as well. In the BMD Records section of this website, there are over 25,000 collections of civil records that are available online. Yes, […]
Another underutilized genealogy resource is Church Records. We tend to focus our research on civil records but need to be aware that often church records pre-date civil records and are a great resource as well. In the BMD Records section of this website, there are about 15,000 collections of civil records that are available online. Yes, that’s […]
Another underutilized genealogy resource is Church Records. We tend to focus our research on civil records but need to be aware that often church records pre-date civil records and are a great resource as well. In the BMD Records section of this website, there are about 15,000 collections of civil records that are available online. Yes, that’s […]
Veridian Software is the product and service provided by DL Consulting, a company that resides in Hamilton, New Zealand. They specialize in national newspaper collections worldwide, large statewide collections in the United States, and universities. Some of the unique features of their software are the ability to handle different alphabets, such as Hebrew for the […]
Interment.net was started in 1997 as a directory of links to cemetery websites. Since that time, they expanded to begin including burial records that contain the name of the deceased, the cemetery, and its location; the location of the burial plot; and birth, death, and burial dates. To access the site, go to www.Interment.net Click […]
Hello to The Ancestor Hunt readers! Here is the latest Monthly Newsletter. It includes links to all of the articles published since the previous newsletter, as well as articles that I think you might find interesting from other authors. It also includes research tips, a joke or two, and other interesting genealogical stuff. It is […]