Probate records and wills are available online from all over the U.S. and are what I consider another hidden gem of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. What can you find in these records? How about date of death, spouses and children names, birth order, siblings and siblings’ […]
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.
One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, baptism, and/or christening information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to birth and baptism collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific birth, baptism, or christening information, and […]
One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, baptism, and/or christening information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to birth and baptism collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific birth, baptism, or christening information, and […]
AncientFaces is a community-driven collection of photos. You can search by name but also browse by themes, people categories, date ranges, and places. From the website: “AncientFaces.com was officially launched in 2000 by Founder & Creator Daniel J. Pinna, and his mother, Founder & Community and Content Director Kathy Pinna. Over time, AncientFaces has grown from just […]
One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, baptism, and/or christening information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to birth and baptism collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific birth, baptism, or christening information, and […]
The USGenWeb Project was formed in 1996. It is a marvelous assortment of highly usable genealogy collections of all varieties and categories. It is a diverse (and sometimes eclectic) variety of genealogy records. It was and still is managed by and contributed to by volunteers. Its history (from the USGenWeb project website): “In the spring […]
Probate records and wills are available online from all over the U.S. and are what I consider another hidden gem of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. What can you find in these records? How about the date of death, spouse’s and children’s names, birth order, siblings and […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of May 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 […]
The National Cemetery Administration manages all the national cemeteries that bury Veterans of the Military. The two main areas of interest of the website are the ability to find a national cemetery and the very popular Grave Locator. The National Gravesite Locator is an online database that includes (from the website): “Burial locations of veterans […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 862 million digitized pages from over 23,410 titles. Here is a list of the 255 new titles from the past month. AustraliaNew South Wales EnglandCheshire New ZealandAuckland Buller Buller District Canterbury Central Otago Dunedin City Gisborne Grey […]