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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.
Long before newspapers were digitized, they endured decades of physical handling, storage, and preservation. Many were folded for delivery, stacked in attics, stored in boxes, or bound tightly into library volumes. Over time, fold lines, creases, tears, and worn edges damaged portions of the printed text. When these pages were later scanned, missing letters and […]
An unusual name may catch your attention—but it doesn’t prove you’ve found your ancestor. One of the easiest genealogy traps is assuming that an uncommon surname or distinctive given name must belong to your ancestor. At first glance, the logic seems sound. If the name is rare, there can’t be many people with it. Unfortunately, […]
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Genealogists often assume that important life events will appear in predictable places. Obituaries should be in the obituary section. Wedding announcements should be in the society pages. Funeral notices should appear near the death notices. Newspapers, however, did not always follow modern organizational rules. Editors frequently placed personal news wherever space was available, causing family-related […]
Your ancestor’s biggest clue may have been living right next door. Genealogy research often focuses so closely on one individual that everyone around them is overlooked. Yet neighbors, witnesses, godparents, traveling companions, and nearby families frequently provide the very clues needed to solve difficult genealogy problems. Families rarely lived in isolation. They migrated together, married […]
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GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its updates for last month. There are 25 New Titles and 6 Titles that have had issues added in the previous month. From GenealogyBank: Here are some of the details about our most recent U.S. newspaper additions: To see our newspaper archives’ entire title list of more than […]
Not all newspaper distortions occur within the body of an article. Some appear in headlines, memorial notices, advertisements, and decorative boxes where editors used ornamental typefaces and extended dashes to attract attention. While these designs looked elegant in print, they often confuse modern OCR software. Names surrounded by decorative symbols, stretched across a page, or […]