AncientFaces is a community-driven collection of photos. You can search by name but also browse by themes, people categories, date ranges, and places. And the collaborative biography section is an exciting idea. From the website: “AncientFaces.com was officially launched in 2000 by Founder & Creator Daniel J. Pinna, and his mother, Founder & Community and Content Director Kathy […]
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.
This past week (September 27, 2025 to October 3, 2025), the following additions were made to The Newspaper Research Academy: ✅ Free Resources – 18 New Articles were added – 77 Total ✅ Research Guides – 3 New Guides were added – 41 Total ✅ On-Demand Webinars – 0 New – 14 Total ✅ Premium […]
Virginia Chronicle regularly adds or updates newspaper titles for the collection. Last month, 12 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Virginia Chronicle website). Here is the list of titles: To access the site, go to Virginia Chronicle
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection regularly adds or updates newspaper titles to the collection. Last month, 43 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection website). Here is the list of titles: To access the site, go to Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
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 […]
New Horizons Genealogy is one of the Internet’s long-standing, under-the-radar genealogy websites. It doesn’t look modern, and the navigation feels retro, but behind the simple interface is a large and useful collection of transcribed historical material. Unlike record sites that rely on indexing and search bars, New Horizons organizes thousands of transcription projects by county […]
Genealogy Trails is a set of websites that present transcribed genealogy records and collections for the United States. Each state has its own website, and there are subsites for each county in the state. It is a totally volunteer-based organization. The following PDF lists all the genealogy record types available in the over 3,000 county […]
MyHeritage continues to add or update its record collections at a fast pace for us to search. For September 1-30, 2025, there are 4 new and 28 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!
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 29,400 titles. Here is a list of the new titles from the past month. England Cumbria Essex North Yorkshire West Yorkshire Wiltshire Ireland Wales United States Arkansas California Acton Alhambra Avalon […]
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 95.9 million pages and is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 24 new titles and added to 78 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated […]