In the last month, The Library of Virginia added or updated 37 titles to the Virginia Chronicle Digital Newspaper Archive. The titles are: For all of Virginia’s free online historical newspapers, go to Virginia Online Historical Newspapers Summary Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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.
Voter registration records are available online and offline from all over the world and are what I consider a hidden gem of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. Here are several reasons why voter records are such a wonderful tool for researching (and finding) ancestors: Most of the […]
Was your ancestor or relative a “radical”, or a fighter for freedom for different causes? There is a new website that makes available online many alternative or underground newspapers that have been digitized and are now online and free to search, The Independent Voices website – “An Open Access Collection of an Alternative Press” is quite a project […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of December 1-15, 2022, 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 […]
Trying to find Ontario yearbooks? This is the place to find free online yearbooks. Why? Yearbooks from high school or college are one of the most fun set 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 […]
Trying to find Canada yearbooks? This is the place to find free online yearbooks. Why? 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 […]
Another type of genealogy record that provides tremendous value is tax records. Like city directories and voting registers, they provide information for us between federal censuses. They also can go back to colonial times. Types of Taxes Types of Information Derivative information, such as birth date, death date, and date of marriage can often be […]
Trying to find Prince Edward Island yearbooks? This is the place to find free online yearbooks. Why? 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 […]
Trying to find Newfoundland and Labrador yearbooks? This is the place to find free online yearbooks. Why? 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 […]
Trying to find New Brunswick yearbooks? This is the place to find free online yearbooks. Why? 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 […]