Genealogy Trails is a set of websites that present transcribed genealogy records and collections for the United States. Each state has its own website, and there are subsites for each county in the state. It is a totally volunteer-based organization. Their principles are (from their website): “In forming the Genealogy Trails Project, it was decided […]
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.
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 […]
New Horizons Genealogy is a site with links for every state in the US in various genealogy categories. It specializes in New England and New York Colonial American Ancestry. From their website: “New Horizons Genealogy specializes in New England and New York Colonial American Genealogy, Ancestry, and Family History. Our record collections include Vital records, Arnold […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of May 1-15, 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 May 1-15, 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 […]
One of the main goals for genealogists is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information, and more importantly – information about the relatives of the deceased’s family and extended family. This family name information is often not found anywhere else. Over the past […]
The USGenWeb Archives, in my opinion, is one of the top 5 free genealogy websites. Its pages are almost all the same, so the user experience is excellent. There are state websites, further divided into county websites. Each county website presents links to collections and records by category. The naming conventions are universal, and it […]
Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to obituary information and transcriptions of obituaries from newspapers have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the scanned newspaper clipping is included. And remember you […]
The “I Dream of Genealogy” website is not very well known, but it has a set of its own collections and links to other collections. It started in 1998. From the website: “Here you will find free online genealogy databases, compiled family histories, vital record resources, famous and celebrity family trees, lost and found family heirlooms, genealogy search, and you […]
HathiTrust began in 2008 as a consortium of 12 Mid-West universities that embody the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, and 11 universities from the University of California system. In essence, the goal was to create a digital repository of scholarly material and books. Copyright and other factors determine the availability of researchers to view documents in […]