This past week (October 3, 2025 to October 9, 2025), the following additions were made to The Newspaper Research Academy: ✅ Free Resources – 2 New Articles were added – 77 Total ✅ Research Guides – 17 New Guides were added – 58 Total ✅ On-Demand Webinars – 0 New – 14 Total ✅ Premium […]
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.
Access Genealogy is one of the Internet’s oldest and broadest genealogy websites — a massive compilation of free transcriptions, local histories, surname books, cemetery indexes, Native American rolls, military lists, and town/county sketches. Its design is simple and the navigation can feel scattered, so most genealogists underestimate what’s actually inside. But beneath its surface lies […]
Death Indexes is one of several very useful websites provided by Joe Beine, and probably the most visited. From the Website: “This website is a directory of links to websites with online death indexes, listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices, and registers, obituaries, wills and probate records, […]
Another type of genealogy record that provides tremendous value is tax records. Like city directories and voting registers, they provide information for us between federal censuses. They also can go back to colonial times. Types of Taxes Types of Information Derivative information, such as birth date, death date, and date of marriage can often be […]
Stephen P. Morse’s One-Step Webpages are some of the most quietly powerful tools in the entire genealogy world. They look simple—plain text pages, long lists of links, a retro design—but beneath the surface is a sophisticated suite of search utilities that outperform the original databases they interface with. Morse’s tools were originally created to solve […]
Here is the latest update from Elephind: New Collections and Pages Added! Over 23 Million Pages Now Searchable This week, Elephind has grown by more than 9 million pages, with three new collections now searchable: We’ve also added new titles and pages to existing collections, including: And we’re not stopping there—over 150 million additional pages […]
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 […]
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