City and business directories are available online from all over the U.S. and Canada and are what I consider another important set of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. This activity of presenting links is a collaborative effort between The Ancestor Hunt and Miriam Robbins, who for years has […]
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.
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 […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 795 million digitized pages from over 22,034 titles. Here is a list of the 106 new and updated titles from the past month. Canada Alberta Calgary – Calgary Herald – 2,526,938 pages (1888–2022) Edmonton – Edmonton Journal – 2,085,666 pages (1903–2022) British Columbia Abbotsford – Abbotsford News Daily – 2,727 pages (2005–2008) […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of October 1-31, 2022, the added/updated collections are: Argentina, Catamarca, Catholic Church Records, 1724-1971 Argentina, Catamarca, Civil Registration, 1888-2000 Argentina, Chaco, Civil Registration, 1889-1946 Argentina, Corrientes, Catholic Church Records, 1734-1977 Argentina, Corrientes, Civil Registration, 1880-2000 […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for October 2022. There are 18 New Titles and 129 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 58.8 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for October 2022. There are 27 New Titles and 30 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 15,988 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 […]
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 17 New Titles and added to 145 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Beaconsfield […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for October 2022. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 11 in total from 2 states. Arkansas Updated content for Arkansas […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of October 1-31, 2022, the new and updated collections are: 1860 United States Federal Census (UPDATED) 1890 United States Federal Census Fragment (UPDATED) 1901 Denmark Census (UPDATED) 1930 United States Federal Census (UPDATED) 1950 United States Federal Census (UPDATED) Alaska, […]
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 […]