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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.
Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists (as well as the largest of them all – FamilySearch), a great number of indexes to death collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific death information, and sometimes scanned images of the actual death certificates themselves. These free online […]
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 […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of March 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 […]
School yearbooks, immortalize how we looked and what we did in high school or college. Whether we looked goofy or cool, that photo is there forever. And they document what clubs, sports, or other activities we were involved in. And for our ancestors, too! There is a significant amount of genealogy information that can be […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of March 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!
Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists (as well as the largest of them all – FamilySearch), a great number of indexes to death collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific death information, and sometimes scanned images of the actual death certificates themselves. These free online […]
Just announced by Chronicling America: We are excited to announce that we have uploaded the first batches of Massachusetts newspapers from our partner, Boston Public Library, to Chronicling America! With these contributions, Chronicling America now extends back to 1770. We will continue to add more content in the coming months. Titles and date ranges currently available:
If you follow The Ancestor Hunt, you know that we specialize in curating and sharing links to free online genealogy records, collections, and indexes organized by category and location. You can always explore those through the By Locations page — choose a state, then a record type. But not all valuable resources fit neatly into […]
Do you often find yourself wanting or needing to know what county a city is located in or what places might be found in a specific county? You could do a Google search but what if you had a handy list that included a list of all the cities, other places, and ghost towns that […]