Immigration Records are some of the richest genealogy record sets and can provide excellent clues as well as data about your ancestors. Specifically, when they came to America, or traveled but did not immigrate. Emigration records can tell you when they left their homeland and can direct you to when they might have immigrated if […]
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.
Mortuary and Funeral Home records are yet another little-used resource by genealogy researchers. They are difficult to obtain, especially in hard copies from the original funeral home. You can contact them, but often, mortuaries went out of business or were sold to another company. And many of the original records have been lost or destroyed. […]
Mortuary and Funeral Home records are yet another little-used resource by genealogy researchers. They are difficult to obtain, especially in hard copies from the original funeral home. You can contact them, but often, mortuaries went out of business or were sold to another company. And many of the original records have been lost or destroyed. […]
Alumni records are part directories, part newspapers, and magazines, part biographies, part obituaries, part yearbooks, part vital records, etc. You get the idea. If you are seeking genealogy clues, these “records’ are full of them. All of the information is derivative, but it can provide leads for you to search for original documents. And if […]
Alumni records are part directories, part newspapers, and magazines, part biographies, part obituaries, part yearbooks, part vital records, etc. You get the idea. If you are seeking genealogy clues, these “records’ are full of them. All of the information is derivative, but it can provide leads for you to search for original documents. And if […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 819 million digitized pages from over 22,533 titles. Here is a list of the 642 new and updated titles from the past month. Canada Alberta British Columbia Ontario Quebec Saskatchewan England Avon Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cleveland Derbyshire Devon […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for December 2022. There are 3 New Titles and 61 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 15,999 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 […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for December 2022. There are 28 New Titles and 220 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 62.1 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
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 44 New Titles and added to 366 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. In 2022, they added 198 new titles from 17 states, including the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands. At the end of 2022, the site had over 20.1 million pages from over 3,800 titles. All states […]