Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 200 million pages currently. They power the newspaper collections of California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. And country-wide collections, such as Estonia, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, and Switzerland. Veridian is the name of […]
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.
A Focused Guide from the Newspaper Research Academy Introduction: Reading Between the Lines Between 1840 and 1940, newspapers chronicled women’s lives in rich — but often indirect — ways. Social conventions, gender expectations, and naming customs meant that women appeared in print as roles, not always as individuals. Understanding the terminology used to describe women […]
A Focused Guide from the Newspaper Research Academy Introduction – The Vanishing Half of History For generations, women appeared everywhere in community newspapers — yet rarely under their own names. They were “Mrs. John Parker,” “the bride,” “the hostess,” or “the daughter of ….” Tracking these hidden identities is one of the most frustrating — […]
Hidden Newspaper Articles – Gem of the Week: School Exhibition Reports Ever wondered how your ancestors participated in their communities beyond the classroom roll call? In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many local papers reported school exhibitions, commencements, and public recitations. These articles often listed every student who spoke, sang, or won an award—sometimes […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its updates for November 2025. There are 10 New Titles and 15 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 […]
MyHeritage continues to add or update its record collections at a fast pace for us to search. For October 1-31, 2025, there are 7 new and 23 updated collections. The new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
Find My Past is an underappreciated source for digitized newspapers. It is a subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers. Currently, its collection numbers over 97.0 million pages and is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 21 new titles and added to 33 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for last month. There are 17 New Titles and 24 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 97.0 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, announced its updates for last month. There are 16 New Titles and 25 Titles that have had issues added. There are over 16,000 titles available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. Below are the titles added or updated this month, with […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 1,1 billion digitized pages from over 29,600 titles. Here is a list of the new titles from the past month. USA Alabama Arizona California Connecticut District of Columbia Florida Georgia Illinois Iowa Kentucky Michigan Minnesota Missouri North […]