Source: Images from findmypast.com Find My Past is an underappreciated source for digitized newspapers. A subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers, it has titles from all over the world, including the U;S. Currently their collection numbers nearly.120 million pages. It is growing rapidly. Last month, Find My Past added 23 New Titles […]
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.
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers, regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for February, 2021. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 26 in total from 8 different states and the Virgin Islands. Alaska Updated […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update their records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of February 1-28, 2021, the new/updated collections are: Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave Index, 1800s-Current (UPDATED) Bornheim, Germany, Births, 1798-1900 (NEW) Bornheim, Germany, Deaths 1799-1932 (NEW) Bornheim, Germany, Marriages 1798-1932 (NEW) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., Marriages, 1700-1809 (UPDATED) Brazil, Find a Grave Index, […]
In the first half of 2021, I separated the links for Birth, Marriage, and Death Records and Indexes into three web pages rather than one combined page with all three categories. This was due to the length of one web page for all categories becoming too long. Choose your category below (sorry for the extra […]
In the first half of 2021, I separated the links for Birth, Marriage, and Death Records and Indexes into three web pages rather than one combined page with all three categories. This was due to the length of one web page for all categories becoming too long. Choose your category below (sorry for the extra […]
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 […]
Source: familysearch.org FamilySearch continues to add or update their records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of February 1-15, 2021, the added/updated collections are: Alabama Voter Registration and Poll Tax Cards, 1834-1981 Argentina, Corrientes, Civil Registration, 1880-1930 Argentina, Misiones, Catholic Church Records, 1874-1975 Argentina, Salta, Civil Registration, 1880-2000 Argentina, San Juan, Catholic Church […]
The Alaska State Library has just announced that they have added 13 titles to the state’s digitized newspaper collection available at Chronicling America. The complete announcement can be read HERE Here are the titles that have been added: The New Native (Hydaburg, Alaska) The Free Press (Fairbanks, Alaska) The Alaska Socialist (Fairbanks, Alaska) The Midnight […]
Source: University of Wyoming and the Wyoming State Library The state of Wyoming has just announced a partnership that yields a new collection of the state’s historical newspapers available online. From the State: “The Wyoming State Library and the University of Wyoming Libraries have worked in partnership to launch a new digital collection of historic […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for January, 2021. There are 64 New Titles, and 24 Titles that have had issues added in the previous month. From GenealogyBank: “We just completed adding new content from 88 newspaper titles, increasing our content coverage from coast to coast: a total of 82 titles from […]