About a month ago. I came in contact with Wesley Eames of Trace.com. After a lengthy discussion, I asked Wes if I could interview him and share the exciting work that Trace is doing for its customers. Below is that interview. If you are like me, you have been doing your own genealogy research for […]
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.
FamilySearch continues to add or update their records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of January 1-15, 2021, the added/updated collections are: Argentina, Salta, Civil Registration, 1880-2000 Arizona, Yavapai County, Voting Records, 1875-1932 Australia, Victoria Petty Sessions Registers, 1858-1985 Austria, Carinthia, Gurk Diocese, Catholic Church Records, 1527-1986 Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, […]
I have been an historical newspaper research addict for a long time. In the past several years I have decided to ratchet up my interest and share what I have learned through newspaper research-related blog articles, huge link lists, as well as video tutorials. For all my articles about newspaper research, just navigate to the Newspapers Page of […]
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. who preserve the historical newspapers for their communities. The list has grown a lot since then. Now there […]
One of the main goals for genealogists in searching historic newspapers is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information and more importantly – information about the relatives of the deceased’s family and extended family. This family name information is often not found […]
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 […]
I have been tracking the online historical newspaper collections from Advantage Archives (formerly called Advantage Preservation) since February, 2017, The list has grown a lot since then. Now there are over 725 collections – 75 of which are newly added this year. Below is a list of all the collections that were new or updated […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historic newspapers, regularly updates their collection. At the end of 2020, there were almost 17,500,000 online pages available from over 3,300 titles. In 2020, 302 titles were added and/or updated to the collection from 27 states and the District of Columbia. Here are the newspaper titles added to […]
The Colorado State Library, in partnership with the Wyoming State Library and the University of Wyoming, have just announced the launch of the Plains to Peaks Historic Newspapers database. The Plains to Peaks Historic Newspapers online collection combines the content of the CHNC [Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection] and the Wyoming Newspapers collection for simple one-stop discovery. This […]
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 […]