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 […]
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.
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for September 2022. There are 46 New Titles and 25 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: A total of 55 titles from 25 states, plus 15 national titles […]
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 […]
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Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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 […]
Newspapers dot Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 782 million digitized pages from over 21,284 titles. CanadaAlberta Calgary, Calgary Herald, 2,525,148 pages (1888–2022) Edmonton, Edmonton Journal, 2,084,087 pages (1903–2022) British Columbia Vancouver, The Province2,348,558 pages (1894–2022) Ontario Toronto, National Post, 834,923 pages (1907–2022) Windsor, The Windsor Star, 1,597,123 pages (1893–2022) Quebec Montreal, The Gazette, 2,171,215 pages (1857–2022) Saskatchewan Regina, The Leader-Post, 1,357,601 […]
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, […]
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 […]