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. […]
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 […]
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!
Hello to The Ancestor Hunt readers! I have decided to start publishing a Bi-monthly Newsletter. It will be anywhere from 5 to 8 pages, published on the 15th of the month, and the last day of the month. It will include links to all of the articles published since the previous newsletter, as well as […]
Just the other day, I was having a short conversation with François Desjardins, of the Drouin Institute, the company behind Généalogie Québec, which offers over 45 million online files and images for the Quebec and French-Canadian research community. My interest was particularly the free online obituaries, which now number over 2.3 million names across Canada. […]
When researching our ancestors, one of the most important events is obviously their birth (otherwise they wouldn’t be ancestors – but I digress). Determining the date and location of birth is important as we document the major events in their lives. Most folks limit their search to the obvious repositories, whether online or not. But there […]
When researching our ancestors, one of the most important events is obviously their death. Determining the date and location of death is important as we document the major events in their lives. Most folks limit their search to the obvious repositories, whether online or not. That would include online or offline death indexes (such as […]
When researching our ancestors, one of the most important events is their marriage – in some cases, there are none, or just one, and I have some who had six. Determining the date and location of marriage is important as we document major events in their lives. Most of these should not stand alone as […]