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, […]
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.
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 […]
You may not know this, but Newspaper Archive has a new management team, after their acquisition in October 2020. From the Press release, “Charles Thayne Capital, a growth-oriented private investment firm focused on technology and based in Chicago, has acquired World Archives, the operator of NewspaperArchive.com.” The new CEO, Kendall Hulet, formerly of Ancestry.com, answered […]
FamilySearch 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 added/updated collections are: Alaska, Vital Records, 1816-2005 Argentina, Buenos Aires, Catholic Church Records, 1635-1981 Argentina, Capital Federal, Catholic Church Records, 1737-1977 Argentina, Catamarca, Catholic Church Records, 1724-1971 Argentina, Cemetery Records, […]
Yearbooks from high school or college are one of the most fun set of records for a genealogist to search. It provides you with a ton of story-like information about your ancestor’s life. What their interests were, what sports and clubs they participated in, and often some goofy snapshots of them before they settled into […]
The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced the 2021 grants for the National Digital Newspaper Program to 10 states: Arkansas Connecticut Florida Georgia Massachusetts Montana Rhode Island Texas Wisconsin Wyoming The details for each state’s grant can be found in this pdf
Do you research school records? I’m not talking about yearbooks. Those can be found on the Yearbooks Page. I’m talking about actual school records, such as enrollment, attendance, and grade reports for example. These are interesting source documents because they might record the student’s age, birth date and location, and possibly their parents’ names. All great […]
Fold3 is one of the major subscription genealogy databases, chock full of searchable and browsable information. The website specializes in Military records, databases, and collections. And like the website’s owner, Ancestry, it provides access to many databases that you can access and research for Free! I would check out the list below and avail myself […]