FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of April 1-30, 2022, the added/updated collections are: Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic Church Records, 1635-1981 Argentina, Catamarca, Civil Registration, 1888-2000 Argentina, Chaco, Civil Registration, 1889-1946 Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939 Australia, Albany, Inward Passenger Lists, 1873-1924 […]
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.
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for April 2022. There are 15 New Titles and 31 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 […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for April 2022. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 19 in total from 6 states. Alaska Updated content for The […]
Newspapers dot Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 742 million digitized pages from over 20,700 titles. Here is a list of their Updated Titles from the last month. It also includes a few New titles to their collection. Australia New South Wales Sydney, The […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of April 1-30, 2022, the new and updated collections are: 1950 United States Federal Census (UPDATED) Australia and New Zealand, Obituary Index, 2004-Current (UPDATED) California, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1959 (UPDATED) Canada, Obituary […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for April 2022. There are 29 New Titles and 119 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 50.6 million pages available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
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 134 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles […]
On this website, the first set of free online links to U.S. historical newspapers was published in February 2014. with about 10,000 titles. There have been at least two updates published each year since then. This initial update for 2022 adds another 4,380 titles. The grand total is 43,500 links to Historical American Newspapers that […]
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 […]
260 new and updated Free Online Historical Newspaper Links have been added to the Western States’ free “newspaper link lists”: These were all updated in April 2022, and represent additions from the past 5 months. There is a total of 6,125 historical newspapers available to search for free from the Western States. Just click on […]