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 […]
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.
Military records are yet another very useful set of records that will help you in finding more about your ancestors. There are a ton of records that are available for free online, and there are some very robust collections (such as Fold3 and Ancestry) that have sizable online military collections as well. Typically, military records […]
Military records are yet another very useful set of records that will help you in finding more about your ancestors. There are a ton of records that are available for free online, and there are some very robust collections (such as Fold3 and Ancestry) that have sizable online military collections as well. Typically, military records […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for December 2022. There are 56 New Titles and 58 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 December additions. To see our […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of November 1-30, 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 […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of November 1-30, 2022, the new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
City and business directories are available online from all over the U.S. 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 made […]
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 25 New Titles and added to 215 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 50 million pages currently. They power California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming state newspaper collections. And country-wide collections, such as Estonia, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, and Switzerland. Veridian is the name of the software and […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for November 2022. There are 39 New Titles and 160 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 60.4 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]