Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of June 1-30, 2022, the new and updated collections are: 1950 United States Federal Census (UPDATED) Arkansas, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1818-1998 (UPDATED) Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave Index, 1800s-Current (UPDATED) Belfort, Alsace, France, Censuses […]
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 its collection. Here are the updated titles for June 2022. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 17 in total from 4 states. Alaska Updated content for Baranof […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of June 1-30, 2022, the added/updated collections are: Alaska, Village Census Rolls, 1919-1972 Argentina, Catamarca, Civil Registration, 1888-2000 Argentina, Chaco, Civil Registration, 1889-1946 Argentina, Corrientes, Catholic Church Records, 1734-1977 Argentina, Corrientes, Civil Registration, 1880-1930 Argentina, […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site with over 54 million historical newspaper pages to search, has made available about 1 million pages from about 100 titles for free to search without a subscription (You must register to create an account). The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and Findmypast to […]
Chronicling America has updated a couple of its very useful tools for all of us, their interactive map and their timeline visualization tool. Here’s the announcement: “The Library of Congress is pleased to announce the publication of a new interactive map and timeline of all digitized titles in the Chronicling America Historic American Newspapers collection. This visualization […]
Did you know that there are many Free Collections and Free Index Collections available on Ancestry dot com? And yes, you do not need a subscription to access them (but you need to have registered, which is free). Below is the list of the 1,174 Free and Free Index Collections (as of June 2022). How […]
Find My Past, a subscription site, has made 154 historical newspaper titles available for free to search without a subscription (You must register to create an account). Find My Past’s newspaper collection includes British and Irish newspapers. To access these free resources as well as some other free collections, such as parish, census, travel, military, […]
One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, baptism, and/or christening information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to birth and baptism collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific birth, baptism, or christening information, and […]
One of the main goals for genealogists is finding marriage information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians and archivists, a great number of indexes to marriage collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific marriage license, bond, and certificate information, and sometimes scanned images of […]
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 […]