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 […]
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.
Are you trying to find Obituaries for a relative, friend, or ancestor? People will tell you that it is easy – just look in old newspapers, or if it is a recent death, just Google the person’s name to see if there is an online obituary, tribute, or memorial. Here are several questions that you […]
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 […]
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.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 795 million digitized pages from over 21,928 titles. Here is a list of the 648 new and updated titles from the past month. Canada Calgary, Alberta, Canada – Calgary Herald – 2,526,050 pages (1888–2022) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – Edmonton Journal – 2,084,905 pages (1903–2022) Vancouver, British Columbia, […]
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. […]
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 […]