GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for September 2021. There are 37 New Titles and 54 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 86 titles from 32 states, plus 2 titles from […]
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.
Do you research naturalization records? No? Why not? Does the thought of going through paper files in dusty court basements turn you off? Well – I’m here to tell you that it is worth it – and with recent digitization efforts – more and more original documents have been scanned and been made available via […]
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 […]
Announced on August 9, 2021, Find My Past in partnership with the British Library, has made 158 titles and one million pages available to search for free. Read the announcement HERE Search the newspapers HERE Below is a list of the 158 titles that are available: Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser, 1875-1879 Baldwin’s London Weekly […]
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 […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for August 2021. There are 28 New Titles and 303 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. Check out the Interview I conducted […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of August 1-31, 2021, the new/updated collections are: Arizona, U.S., Naturalization Records, 1909-1991 (UPDATED) Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave Index, 1800s-Current (UPDATED) Bessarabia (now Moldova), Marriage and Divorce Records, 1879-1915 (UPDATED) Brazil, Find a Grave Index, […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for August 2021. There are 50 New Titles and 71 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 44.6 million pages available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
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. This month, Find My Past added 49 New Titles and added to […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for August 2021. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 23 in total from 8 different states. Alaska Updated content for […]