Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for June 2021. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 17 in total from 6 different states. Iowa Updated content 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.
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of June 1-30, 2021, the new/updated collections are: Andrew and Cole Counties, Missouri, U.S., Probate Records, 1826-1945 (UPDATED) Arkansas, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1818-1998 (UPDATED) Australia and New Zealand, Obituary Index, 2004-Current (UPDATED) Australia, […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for June 2021. There are 16 New Titles and 241 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 […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its’ updates for June 2021. There are 9 New Titles and 20 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 43 million pages available at the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
As genealogists, we deal with history, so naturally, we use the words historic and historical. Sometimes interchangeably, and therefore incorrectly. I am a (hopefully) past transgressor of this crime. But through developing better word habits, I think I have overcome this error. If you read through some of my past articles on this website, you may […]
Thanks to a discovery from one of our readers, Rick Womack, there is a neat trick that you can use to list just the New titles added by Newspapers.com and also just the Updated titles: For the New titles, enter the url https://www.newspapers.com/papers/?sort=new# For the Updated titles, enter the url https://www.newspapers.com/papers/?sort=updated# Easy Peasy. Just the way we […]
The NewspaperArchive collections of digitized newspapers require a subscription, as is widely known. But wait…. They do have some free collections that you can use to perform your online newspaper research. In fact, currently, there are 84 collections from 22 states in the U.S. All you have to do is register for a free account […]
Did you know that there are many Free Obituary Index Collections available on Ancestry dot com? And yes, you do not need a subscription to access them. Here is the list of the 57 Free Obituary and Obituary Index Collections (as of June 24, 2021): Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Obituary Records, 1920-1969 FREE Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted […]
Did you know that there are many Free Index Collections available on Ancestry dot com? And yes, you do not need a subscription to access them (but you need to have registered, which is free).’ Here is the list of the 1,097 Free and Free Index Collections (as of June 18, 2021): 10,000 Vital Records […]
Did you know that there are about 100 million newspaper obituary records available from FamilySearch in 43 different collections? All but 1 collection have searchable indexes, and there are collections with images from newspapers, images from index card transcriptions only, and collections that are indexes only. Now, the great majority do not have newspaper images […]