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 […]
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.
On this website, the first set of free online links to U.S. historical newspapers was published in February 2014. Updates were added in June 2015, December 2015, June 2016, February 2017, July 2017, December 2017, March 2018, June 2018, November 2018, March 2019, July 2019, December 2019, and July 2020. This final update of 2020 adds […]
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265 new and updated Free Historical Newspaper Links have been added to the Western States’ free “newspaper link lists”: These were all updated in November/December 2020, and represent additions from the past 6 months. There now is a total of 5,555 titles for the Western states. Just click on your chosen state below and the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The “Search Multiple Historic Newspaper Collections All At Once” website, elephind.com has just published an update that includes many more items and issues from 2 updated collections: (from the October, 2020 Elephind Newsletter): Updated Newspaper Collections The Lehigh University Brown and White archive – A digital archive of the Lehigh University Student newspaper containing 6,617 issues comprising 60,926 pages. Hoji […]
My apologies. The list of links that you are seeking is currently being researched and constructed. They should be available in the next 30 days or so. Your patience is requested. Thanks!