The Ancestor Hunt has been cataloging and listing links to free online genealogy collections in over 20 different record categories since 2014. These are available for you to view and use via the Resources tab above. It occurred to me, however, that there is a massive amount of genealogy and historical material that can help us researchers […]
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.
In February 2017, I started publishing a list of the catalog of online historical newspapers from over 400 different collections put together by the Advantage Archives Company, developed in conjunction with the libraries, historical societies, and museums across the U.S. that preserve the historical newspapers for their communities. The list has grown a lot since […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for July 2022. There are 63 New Titles and 11 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 19 national titles […]
The Ancestor Hunt has been cataloging and listing links to free online genealogy collections in over 20 different record categories since 2014. These are available for you to view and use via the Resources tab above. It occurred to me, however, that there is a massive amount of genealogy and historical material that can help us researchers […]
The Ancestor Hunt has been cataloging and listing links to free online genealogy collections in over 20 different record categories since 2014. These are available for you to view and use via the Resources tab above. It occurred to me, however, that there is a massive amount of genealogy and historical material that can help us researchers […]
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 […]
Newspapers dot Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 765 million digitized pages from over 21,013 titles. Here is a list of their Updated Titles from the last month. It also includes a few new titles in its collection. Scotland Strathclyde Glasgow, Daily Record United […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for June 2022. There are 18 New Titles and 77 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 54.1 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 June 2022. There are 0 New Titles and 36 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 […]
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 11 New Titles and added to 133 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles […]