The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for September 2022. There are 19 New Titles and 59 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 57.4 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
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NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for September 2022. There are 7 New Titles and 40 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 15,960 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 […]
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 clubs they participated in, and often some goofy snapshots of them before they settled into […]
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 87 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles African […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of September 1-30, 2022, the new and updated collections are: 1870 United States Federal Census (UPDATED) 1950 United States Federal Census (UPDATED) Aberystwyth, Wales, Indexes to Crew Lists, 1850-1914 (NEW) Aisne, France Censuses, 1794-1911 (UPDATED) Arizona, U.S., State Court […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for September 2022. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 10 in total from 3 states and the District of Columbia. […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of September 1-30, 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, Jujuy, Catholic Church Records, […]
Source: Northern New York Library Network If you follow this website at all, you know that I from time to time update the free online historical newspapers that are available for you to search. I originally posted the New York Online Historical Newspapers Summary in February 2014, and have added many updates, the latest in April 2022. The largest collection […]
The Digital Library of Georgia has just announced that 159 titles have been added this year. They are part of the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. The complete article announcement can be read HERE Here is the list of the titles and date ranges available: Adel News, 1900-1904 Advance (Vidalia), 2021 Advertiser (Cleveland), 1881 Advocate-Democrat (Crawfordville), 1893-1906 American […]
Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to obituary information and transcriptions of obituaries from newspapers have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the scanned newspaper clipping is included. And remember you […]