Another underutilized genealogy resource is Church Records. We tend to focus our research on civil records but need to be aware that often church records pre-date civil records and are a great resource as well. In the BMD Records section of this website, there are over 25,000 collections of civil records that are available online. Yes, […]
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.
MyHeritage continues to add or update its record collections at a fast pace for us to search. For July 1-31, 2025, there are 6 new and 14 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!
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection, is available for online research of United States historical newspapers, and it regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for last month. Some are new titles, and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 18 in total. Important Note: These links are […]
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 92.8 million pages and is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 25 new titles and added to 63 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 23 New Titles and 41 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 93 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 1 billion digitized pages from over 28,900 titles. Here is a list of the new titles from the past month. Canada Ontario England Avon Dorset Essex Hereford and Worcester Hertfordshire London Norfolk Suffolk Warwickshire West Yorkshire Wiltshire […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, announced its updates for last month. There are 93 New Titles and 134 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 […]
Ancestry.com continues to add or update its record collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of July 1-31, 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!
FamilySearch continues to add or update its record collections at a fast pace for us to search. For the period of July 1-31, 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 […]
Divorce records from all over the U.S. are sometimes difficult to find online. They are another hidden gem of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research. What can you find in these records? Obviously the dates and location of the divorce proceeding, the date and location of the marriage, […]