I have been having discussions for the last year or so with my friend Alan Martin about recording one’s family history as an alternative or adjunct to writing it. I have been writing my ancestor’s family history through blog posts on my two family history websites for years. I fully intend to write a book about […]
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 their records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of January 1-31, 2021, the new/updated collections are: 1860 U.S. Federal Census – Slave Schedules (UPDATED) 1911 England Census (UPDATED) Alabama, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 (UPDATED) Archdeaconry of Richmond, England, Church of England Marriage Bonds, 1611-1861 (NEW) Australia and New Zealand, […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historic newspapers, regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for January, 2021. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 15 in total from 7 different states. Alaska Updated content for The Alaska daily empire. […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update its records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of January 1-31, 2021, the added/updated collections are: Alabama, Military Discharge Records, ca.1918 – ca.1962 Argentina, Córdoba, Catholic Church Records, 1557-1974 Argentina, Entre Ríos, Catholic Church Records, 1764-1983 Argentina, Entre Ríos, Civil Registration, 1860-1965 Argentina, Salta, […]
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 […]
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 […]
About a month ago. I came in contact with Wesley Eames of Trace.com. After a lengthy discussion, I asked Wes if I could interview him and share the exciting work that Trace is doing for its customers. Below is that interview. If you are like me, you have been doing your own genealogy research for […]
FamilySearch continues to add or update their records collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of January 1-15, 2021, the added/updated collections are: Argentina, Salta, Civil Registration, 1880-2000 Arizona, Yavapai County, Voting Records, 1875-1932 Australia, Victoria Petty Sessions Registers, 1858-1985 Austria, Carinthia, Gurk Diocese, Catholic Church Records, 1527-1986 Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, […]
I have been an historical newspaper research addict for a long time. In the past several years I have decided to ratchet up my interest and share what I have learned through newspaper research-related blog articles, huge link lists, as well as video tutorials. For all my articles about newspaper research, just navigate to the Newspapers Page of […]
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 then. Now there […]