Ancestry.com continues to add or update its record collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of September 1-15, 2025, the new and updated collections are: I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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.
FamilySearch continues to add or update its record collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of September 1-15, 2025, the added/updated collections are: For a complete list of all added/updated collections, go to https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list I hope that some of these are what you have been waiting for! Good Luck and […]
The Digital Library of Georgia has just announced that 62 titles have been added in the Summer 2025 Update. They are now part of the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. The complete article announcement can be read HERE Here is the list of the titles and date ranges available, as well as their funding sources: […]
GenealogyBank, a subscription newspaper site, has announced its updates for September 2025. There are 24 New Titles and 41 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 […]
Remember Elephind? The “search many newspaper databases all at once” search engine for online newspapers? It was taken down in March 2024, and it is coming back. I am regularly in touch with DL Consulting in New Zealand, who are the creators of Elephind and also the creator of Veridian Software, the software that powers […]
Hoosier State Chronicles regularly adds or updates newspaper titles for the collection. Last month, 6 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Hoosier State Chronicles website). Here is the list of titles: To access the site, go to Hoosier State Chronicles
Virginia Chronicle regularly adds or updates newspaper titles for the collection. Last month, 6 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
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections regularly adds or updates newspaper titles to the collections. Last month, 57 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections website). Here is the list of titles for this month: To access the site, go to Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
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 […]
The other day, two words came into my mind, seemingly out of nowhere. They were Distortion and Intention. As soon as I recognized these two words, I knew what they were about – newspaper research. I have been an aficionado, an evangelist, and an educator, trying to encourage more genealogy researchers to incorporate historical newspaper […]