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 […]
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 FamilySearch Digital Library essentially is the place for books. FamilySearch identifies it in a more detailed fashion: “Over 500,000 genealogy books, family histories, maps, yearbooks, and more.” Partner libraries have shared parts of their collections with FamilySearch. They are major libraries in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. You can search the Digital Library by entering […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for May 2023. There is 1 New Title and 41 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of 16,059 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 […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for May 2023. There are 0 New Titles and 80 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 67.9 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for June 2023. There are 33 New Titles and 9 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 June additions. To see our […]
Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 87 million pages currently. They power California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, 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 software and […]
Find My Past is an underappreciated source for digitized newspapers. It is a subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers. Currently their collection numbers over 50 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 13 New Titles and added to 42 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for May 2023. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 23 in total from 6 states. Arkansas Georgia Kansas Massachusetts Minnesota […]
Ancestry.com 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 new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
If you are looking for maps to aid in your genealogy research, the David Rumsey Map Collection website should not be missed. It has a terrific search engine with associated tools, as well as an abundance of information. From the website: “The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 35 years ago and contains more […]