NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, has announced its’ updates for February 2024. There are 3 New Titles and 53 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, […]
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Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for February 2024. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 33 in total. Arizona District of Columbia Georgia Indiana Kansas Louisiana […]
For those of you who have some Italian in your family tree, there are several Italian-American newspapers that have been published over the last hundred or so years that may help you find some information and stories about your ancestors. Listed are only those that are available online. As always, there are tons more available […]
As you know, if you have visited this site previously, I have been presenting historical newspaper links to Free collections in the U.S. over the past few years, They have been presented by state, ethnicity, religion, etc. To see all these collections, click on the Newspaper Links tab at the top of this web page. An […]
For those of you who have some Nordic in your family tree, there are several Nordic-American newspapers that have been published over the last hundred or so years that may help you find some information and stories about your ancestors. Listed are only those that are available online. As always, there are more available via […]
Union membership was about 15% in the 1930s and peaked at about 35% in the 1950s in the U.S. Currently, union membership is about 10%, even though in the past couple of decades, public-sector union membership has increased. Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Iowa Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Massachusetts Maryland […]
For those of you who have Polish ancestry in your family tree, there are lots of Polish-American newspapers that have been published over the last hundred or so years that may help you find some information and stories about your ancestors. In fact, according to the Library of Congress, there are exactly 240 Polish-language newspapers […]
This version of the occupations chart has been usurped by a new version with over 360 illness term equivalencies. Get it at:https://theancestorhunt.com/blog/old-occupations-and-their-meanings/ When searching old newspapers and census records, we are often faced with unusual names of occupations, and we have no clue as to their meaning because the terms are not in use today. […]
Over 35% of American families were involved in agriculture in the late 19th century. It is down to less than 5% today and certainly higher than 35% prior to 1899. The stories of farmers and their families were recorded in local and county newspapers. As researchers, we also need to look to Farming newspapers to […]
For those of you who have some German in your family tree, several German-American newspapers published over the last hundred or so years may help you find some information and stories about your ancestors. Listed are only those that are available online. As always, there are tons more available via microfilm and in the original […]