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 […]
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 March 2022. There are 63 New Titles and 26 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 89 titles from 28 states, plus 1 title from […]
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 […]
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 November 2021. The largest collection […]
Hello to The Ancestor Hunt readers! Here is the latest Bi-monthly Newsletter. It includes links to all of the articles published since the previous newsletter, as well as articles that I think you might find interesting from other authors. It also includes research tips, a joke or two, and other interesting genealogical stuff. It is […]
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. Canada Alberta Calgary, Calgary Herald Edmonton, Edmonton […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for March 2022. There are 0 New Titles and 27 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 16,100 titles available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. Below are the titles added or […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for March 2022. There are 55 New Titles and 185 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 49.8 million pages available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of March 1-31, 2022, the new and updated collections are: 1840 Denmark Census (UPDATED) 1880 Denmark Census (UPDATED) 1939 England and Wales Register (UPDATED) Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France, Births, Marriages and Deaths,1532-1915 (NEW) Angermünde, Brandenburg, Germany, Miscellaneous […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for March 2022. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 20 in total from 8 states. Alaska Updated content for Moose […]