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 […]
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.
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 […]
Source: familysearch.org FamilySearch continues to add or update their records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of March 1-15, 2021, the added/updated collections are: Alaska, WWII Statement of Service Records, 1948-1949 Argentina, Córdoba, Catholic Church Records, 1557-1974 Argentina, Entre Ríos, Catholic Church Records, 1764-1983 Argentina, Tucumán, Catholic Church Records, 1727-1955 Australia Cemetery Inscriptions, […]
The U.S. Virgin Islands received a NEW Grant to digitize newspapers in August, 2020. Chronicling America has just announced the addition of the first title. From The Library of Congress: “This month Chronicling America added newspapers from its 50th contributor – the University of the Virgin Islands! This first newspaper from the U.S. Virgin Islands, the St. Croix Avis, provides […]
The Connecticut State Library has just announced the addition of 2 new titles from the 1800s that have been added to Chronicling America. From the State Library: “The CT Digital Newspaper Project (CDNP) is excited to announce that two more historic Connecticut newspapers have been added to Chronicling America – the Litchfield County Post and the Litchfield Enquirer! […]
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 […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its’ updates for March, 2021. There are 39 New Titles, and 24 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 52 titles from 24 states, plus 11 national titles […]
In the first half of 2021, I separated the links for Birth, Marriage, and Death Records and Indexes into three web pages rather than one combined page with all three categories. This was due to the length of one web page for all categories becoming too long. Choose your category below (sorry for the extra […]
The Digital Library of Georgia just announced that 41 titles have just been added in the past few months to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. The complete announcement can be found HERE. The announcement also discusses where the funding for each of the added titles came from. Here is a list of the titles (and funding organization): Titles […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for February, 2021. There are 33 New Titles, and 45 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 41 million pages available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. Below […]