About 110 new and updated Free Online Historical Newspaper Links have been added to the New England States’ free “newspaper link lists”: These were all updated in November, 2021, and represent additions from the past 5 months. There is a total of 2,130 historical newspapers available to search for free from the New England States. […]
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. who preserve the historical newspapers for their communities. The list has grown a lot since […]
DigitalNC just announced the addition of 52 newspaper titles that were brought to us by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) in a cooperative effort with the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries. These issues. originally on Chronicling America, will be available on the Digital NC newspaper database, allowing you to search that content alongside the […]
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 […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for November 2021. There are 32 New Titles and 41 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 71 titles from 25 states, plus 1 title from […]
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 […]
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).’ Here is the list of the 1,175 Free and Free Index Collections (as of October 30, 2021): […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for October 2021. There are 4 New Titles and 297 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 15,000 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 […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of October 1-31 2021, the new/updated collections are: 1871 England Census (UPDATED) Alabama, U.S., Naturalization Records, 1888-1991 (UPDATED) Argentina, National Census, 1895 (UPDATED) Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 (UPDATED) Brazil, Civil Registration, 1870-2012 (UPDATED) Brittany, France Court Records, 1600-1790 (UPDATED) California, U.S., […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for October 2021. There are 45 New Titles and 41 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 45.7 million pages available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]