Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of August 1-31, 2022, the new and updated collections are: 1810 United States Federal Census (UPDATED) 1950 United States Federal Census (UPDATED) Alabama, U.S., Naturalization Records, 1888-1991 (UPDATED) Alabama, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 (UPDATED) Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France, Births, […]
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.
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 31 New Titles and added to 295 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Andover […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for August 2022. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 28 in total from 8 states. Alabama Updated content for Das […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of August 1-31, 2022, the added/updated collections are: Alabama, County Birth Registers, 1881-1930 Alaska, Village Census Rolls, 1919-1972 Argentina, Catamarca, Catholic Church Records, 1724-1971 Argentina, Catamarca, Civil Registration, 1888-2000 Argentina, Chaco, Civil Registration, 1889-1946 Argentina, […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for August 2022. There are 34 New Titles and 209 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 56.4 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 August 2022. There are 12 New Titles and 33 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 15,900 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 […]
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In 2014, this website began to curate links to free online newspapers in the United States. The initial publication listed about 10,000 titles. A few years later, digitized and free Canadian newspaper collection links were curated and published. Today, between the two countries there are over 47,500 historical newspaper titles that are listed. The common […]
Do you research naturalization records? No? Why not? Does the thought of going through paper files in dusty court basements turn you off? Well – I’m here to tell you that it is worth it – and with recent digitization efforts – more and more original documents have been scanned and made available via microfilm […]