On this website, the first set of free online links to U.S. historical newspapers was published in February 2014. with about 10,000 titles. There have been at least two updates published each year since then. This first update for 2023 adds another 1,120 titles. The grand total is 45,930 links to Historical American Newspapers that […]
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.
130 new and updated Free Online Historical Newspaper Links have been added to the Western States’ free “newspaper link lists”: These were all updated in February 2023, and represent additions from the past 4 months. There is a total of 6,390 historical newspapers available to search for free from the Western States. Just click on […]
In February 2017, I started publishing a list of the catalog of online historical newspapers from over 400 different collections put together by the Advantage Archives Company, developed in conjunction with the libraries, historical societies, and museums across the U.S. that preserve historical newspapers for their communities. The list has grown a lot since then. […]
Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 50 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 […]
Yearbooks from high school or college are one of the most fun sets of records for a genealogist to search. It provides you with a ton of story-like information about your ancestor’s life. What their interests were, what sports and clubs they participated in, and often some goofy snapshots of them before they settled into […]
210 new and updated Free Online Historical Newspaper Links have been added to the Mid Atlantic States’ free “newspaper link lists”: These were all updated in February 2023, and represent additions from the past 4 months. There is a total of 7,080 historical newspapers available to search for free from the Mid Atlantic States. Just […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 826 million digitized pages from over 22,693 titles. Here is a list of the 445 new and updated titles from the past month. AustraliaAustralian Capital Territory CanadaAlberta British Columbia EnglandAvon Buckinghamshire Cheshire Devon Greater London Greater Manchester […]
370 new Free Online Historical Newspaper Links have been added to the Southern States’ free “newspaper link lists”: These were all updated in January 2023, and represent additions from the past 4 months. There is a total of 14,500 historical newspapers available to search for free from the Southern States. Just click on your chosen […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for January 2023. There are 28 New Titles and 128 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 63.4 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
Does the thought of locating and searching through old probate records and wills turn you off, because you will need to go through some court’s smelly basement, where you have to pore through dusty old files of records? Let me tell you, whether you have to find them that way or online, they are incredibly […]