One of the main goals for genealogists in searching historic newspapers is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information and more importantly – information about the relatives of the deceased’s family and extended family. This family name information is often not found […]
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 […]
I have been tracking the online historical newspaper collections from Advantage Archives (formerly called Advantage Preservation) since February, 2017, The list has grown a lot since then. Now there are over 725 collections – 75 of which are newly added this year. Below is a list of all the collections that were new or updated […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historic newspapers, regularly updates their collection. At the end of 2020, there were almost 17,500,000 online pages available from over 3,300 titles. In 2020, 302 titles were added and/or updated to the collection from 27 states and the District of Columbia. Here are the newspaper titles added to […]
The Colorado State Library, in partnership with the Wyoming State Library and the University of Wyoming, have just announced the launch of the Plains to Peaks Historic Newspapers database. The Plains to Peaks Historic Newspapers online collection combines the content of the CHNC [Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection] and the Wyoming Newspapers collection for simple one-stop discovery. This […]
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 […]
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 […]