One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, marriage, and death (BMD) information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians and archivists (as well as the largest of them all – FamilySearch), a great number of indexes to birth, marriage, and death collections have been provided for free online. […]
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.
One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, marriage, and death (BMD) information about their ancestors. Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians and archivists (as well as the largest of them all – FamilySearch), a great number of indexes to birth, marriage, and death collections have been provided for free online. […]
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 […]
Find My Past is an underappreciated source for digitized newspapers. A subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers. Currently their collection numbers nearly 120 million pages. It is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 72 New Titles and added to 65 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Age covering 1853 […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for September 2021. There are 67 New Titles and 50 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 45.1 million pages available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for September 2021. There are 12 New Titles and 317 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 […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for September 2021. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 33 in total from 8 different states. Alaska Updated content for […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of September 1-30, 2021, the new/updated collections are: Aisne, France Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1792-1905 (NEW) Aisne, France Censuses, 1801-1911 (NEW) Ardennes, France Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1791-1892 (NEW) Arizona, U.S., Obituary Index to Arizona Newspapers, 1993-1994 (NEW) Australia […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of September 1-30, 2021, the added/updated collections are: Alaska, Vital Records, 1816-2005 Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic Church Records, 1635-1981 Argentina, Catamarca, Civil Registration, 1888-2000 Argentina, Cemetery Records, 1882-2019 Argentina, Corrientes, Catholic Church Records, 1734-1977 Argentina, […]
Source: Northern New York Library Network If you follow this website at all, you know that I from time to time update the free online historical newspapers that are available for you to search. I originally posted the New York Online Historical Newspapers Summary in February, 2014, and have added many updates, the latest in November, 2020. The largest collection for […]