NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for April 2021. There are 11 New Titles and 326 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 […]
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.
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. Last month, Find My Past added 24 New Titles and added to 65 existing […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for April 2021. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 41 in total from 13 different states. Arkansas Updated content for […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for April 2021. There are 40 New Titles and 62 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 42 million pages available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update their records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of April 1-15, 2021, the added/updated collections are: Austria, Carinthia, Gurk Diocese, Catholic Church Records, 1527-1986 Brazil, Minas Gerais, Civil Registration, 1879-1949 Brazil, Paraná, Civil Registration, 1852-1996 Brazil, Santa Catarina, Civil Registration, 1850-1999 California, Los Angeles, Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery/Crematory […]