NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for January 2023 There are 3 New Titles and 50 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 16,032 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 […]
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.
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for February 2023. There are 10 New Titles and 12 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 February additions. To see our […]
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 28 New Titles and added to 148 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 January 2023. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 24 in total from 7 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of January 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!
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of January 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 […]
Are you doing Oregon genealogy research and looking for Free Online Oregon Genealogy Records? Click on a link for your desired category’s free collection links (2,126 total links to Free Collections for Oregon:
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The Library of Congress Digital Collections are large and growing. Currently, there are over 1,000 unique collections. You should definitely incorporate this massive set of collections into your genealogy research. They are divided into 16 different topics (the number of collections is in brackets): You can see all the specific collections by selecting a topic. […]
[UPDATED] – 14,625 total Named Victorian-era photos are now in their database, and the price has been reduced by 60%!] Recently I became aware of a new website – “Ancestor Photos” Essentially, it provides scanned copies of Victorian-era photographs. The database numbers in the thousands and includes (from the website): “We provide a unique opportunity […]